How To Use Maid In A Sentence
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Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
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To play at Shuttlecock methinks is the game now," says a character in The Two Maids of More Clacke, written by Robert Armin in 1609.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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The radiant bride was given away by her brother and attended by a ‘best woman’ rather than bridesmaids.
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The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
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She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
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Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket.
Times, Sunday Times
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“No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
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How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
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These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'.
On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
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Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
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The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass.
Brittany & Its Byways
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Worsted in this war of love Shiva punished the mischievous god of love Madana for aiding that maiden by causing springtime to appear on the scene before its wonted time.
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She rose in rank from fair maiden to fair lady and then to duchess.
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We've all heard of mermaids, but know less of their male equivalent, the merman.
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Milk churns and dairymaids are making a comeback on a Sheffield housing estate where South Yorkshire's first urban dairy will start producing cheese commercially next month.
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Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
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He was convicted and jailed for four years and three months for evading 8,000 excise duty at Maidstone crown court.
The Sun
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Ford's maiden small-car, Figo, helped the Michigan-based auto maker improve sales multifold in India, and nearly two-thirds of Figo's sales are from its diesel variant.
GM India Launches Chevrolet Beat Diesel Car
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Your forchoon is maid and you git part of a big tressure if you do exackly as told.
The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow
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She revolutionised nursing by transforming what was regarded as the work of a chambermaid or scullion, into an occupation for caring and highly trained women.
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A pretty fern that is quite different again is maidenhair fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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Norns '(for so in that country they called the Fates)' beckon you to a land where green fields lie under a blue sky, fields where golden-haired maidens lie among the flowers. '
The Book of Romance
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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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And on the fifteenth day, when that we had gotten up and washt and eat and drank, the Maid did look unto my bandages; and did consider that I be healed very good, if but that I not to overstrain my body.
The Night Land
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I didn't clean, so we hired a maid who said she would do it only if our house were exorcized.
A Country of Husbands
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Antoinette this is Brenda our parlourmaid, and Nellie our housemaid.
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She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
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Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
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Kate, Madeline's ladysmaid, floated around not really doing anything and occasionally darting angry looks in my direction.
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However, subsequent excavations at Maiden Castle, Arikamedu and Charsadda have inevitably caused many of his fundamental assumptions to be refuted.
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She had three bridesmaids and two maids of honour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only smoke that will fill their meeting rooms will be the smoke of incense and, offstage, choirs of maidens will sing sweet and low.
Times, Sunday Times
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The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.
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And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid.
The Night Land
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A disorganised woman is asked to be maid of honour at her best friend's wedding.
The Sun
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Tell the class that early explorers in Florida thought manatees were either mermaids or monsters.
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She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
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The William Haggas-trained filly was sent off favourite on her debut in a maiden race at Salisbury, but ran green and only got going late before being narrowly beaten into third.
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Mistress Helen has quick news," said I. "She has a maid yonder, Dol Beag's lass, and she brought the word frae
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Harry Reid reminds me of a constipated “old-maid” in britches.
Think Progress » Drudge’s Non-Story: Reid Has Criticized The Patriot Act For Years
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They taught me about hepatitis, malaria, ringworm and how Edward Jenner discovered the cure to small pox while working with milkmaids.
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Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it.
Amelia — Complete
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The large glass dining room table has been meticulously set by Renate, the maid.
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Then Zeus changed the maiden into a heifer, to save her from the anger of Here, but presently Here learned that the heifer was the maiden whom she hated, and she went to Zeus, and said,
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Its filled with wisdom and wit for the woman who feels like she is always a bridesmaid.
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Before I could collect it, he picked it up while leading his morcha to Azad Maidan.
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Mrs. Babbit would bring a pot of the "Soup of the Day" from the adjoining diner for the maids to enjoy with whatever oddment they had brought from home to eat.
Everyday Things Made Beautiful
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He imagined his mother's wrathful face and the smirk in the eyes of the maid.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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When something like a black cloud passed among them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship with many people: they certainly did not think that a pretty little sea-maid was standing down below stretching up her white hands towards the keel of their ship.
The Little Sea-Maid
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The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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A mere chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?
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The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
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The maid was carrying a lovely frosted cake, with pink and white decorations all over it.
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Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion.
Crossed
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The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins.
Chapter 15
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He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw.
CHAPTER X
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Certainly, sir. The housemaid will be there right away.
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These constricted walkways close one in but then open into wide courtyards where young maidens dance around wells, their sing-song voices light and lustrous.
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Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. want to interview the woman, Tristane Banon, as part of their inquiry into allegations Mr. Strauss-Kahn assaulted a maid in his suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York City on May 14.
Probe of Ex-IMF Chief Is Widened
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The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.
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In the eyes of this mall's planners, a typical Mexican family consists of: a man dressed in full charro gear (hat, tight trousers, matching bolero jacket and a huge belt buckle;) a woman in a maid-style apron (check out her mandil) who is probably someone's maid, and a preppy kid in shorts and cardigan who probably goes to school in the "right side" of the border and wants nothing to do with the other two.
Mi blog es tu blog
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Then she called her handmaid and said to her, Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. '
Arabian nights. English
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At the desk, customers can make appointments with personal shoppers, arrange private shopping parties, request monogramming, preorder items from its high-end Collection line, look at color swatches for bridesmaid dresses that are sold online, and order clothes, such as those from the kids 'line called crewcuts, that aren't carried in most stores.
Concierge Services and Mismatched Socks
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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He arranged terms of intimacy, I am sorry to say, with the housemaid; and, on the third journey, he made an alliance with the potboy at the Full Moon.
He Knew He Was Right
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You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Buddy draws the short straw again, taking the invention on its maiden voyage in a quarry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great standard, in the Maiden's wars, was to be used for the rallying of all her host; the pennon was a signal to those who fought around her, as guards of her body; and about the banner afterwards gathered, for prayer and praise, those men, confessed and clean of conscience, whom she had called and chosen.
A Monk of Fife
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
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Would each corgi no longer have a full-time kennel maid?
Spending review serves up sixpences in a pudding of manure and gravel
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This last, I knew, was a very vulgar word; I had heard Rador use it in a moment of anger to one of the serving maids, and it meant, approximately, "kitchen girl," "scul-lion.
The Moon Pool
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A way around it is to ask her to be your chief bridesmaid or matron of honour.
The Sun
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The bowlers were very well backed up by the fielders, and the hosts were pegged back to 19 for three from 12 overs, with Koram being the pick of the bowling with three wickets from six maiden overs.
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The last time he went away, he came home to find two of his serving maids pregnant and his entire supply of vintage brandy and best silverware gone.
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When we stood at the bow of the ship we peered over the edge and watched the maidenhead get battered, the wooden carving taking the abuse in stride.
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At the top of the aisle, the bridesmaids and groomsmen peeled off to left and right respectively.
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The dairymaid heard the noise, got the churn between her knees, and tumbled over it, spilling all the cream; and yet she jumped up, and gave chase to Tom.
The Water Babies
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He gives us a nine-year-old dairymaid as a hero...and he makes it work.
My First Discworld Book!! (Buddy Read with Kailana!)
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Fergal Lynch, who is closing fast on his maiden century of winners, takes the mount on Gaelic Princess, who is expected to have too much speed for her rivals.
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But this old sea-maid be air-baggin' fer longer than she needs.
20th September '05
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He did not think of philosophic reason either as a mere handmaid to religion or as a dangerous whore out to seduce the mind into supposing that it could attain its supreme end without God's help and grace.
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The maid clucked her tongue and rolled her eyes.
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Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
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Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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Arrived at the foot of the mountain (the Jungfrau, that is, the Maiden); glaciers; torrents; one of these torrents _nine hundred feet_ in height of visible descent.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The demonstration was in opposition to government plans to levy a new tax on those employing guest workers as domestics, and to cut the minimum wages of maids.
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A serving maid was standing in the doorway; her hair was sleeked back and plaited.
Wildfire
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The DNA profile of the bloodstain found on a bedsheet was the same as Muntik Bani's, the Indonesian maid who died from abuse in October last year, the High Court was told.
Nst online
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Magath, who had led the club to a maiden Bundesliga title, left at the end of last season for a similar "supremo" job at Schalke 04 on a four-year contract.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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His family have nursemaided him over the last few days.
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There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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But the Barkindji, whose forebears were once permitted in town only as servants and nursemaids, or who worked as stockmen in the outer regions, now own the public spaces.
Travel: Dickens down under
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Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ...
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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Lamarr escaped the marriage by drugging the maid and climbing out a window.
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She and the girls walked towards the counter where a barmaid stood to take orders or to place reservations for rooms.
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In 1863 she made her maiden voyage to China and Australia.
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‘Then again, some old maid's door will be slily fastened by tying tightly across the door jambs, in front of and to the ‘sneck’, a piece of wood to prevent her coming out of doors till released by a kind neighbour next morning.’
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We didn't get any maid service the following day but that was fine with me because we had most of our belongings strewn around anyhow.
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Seated on the inner side of the stile is the young maiden.
Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants
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The suns' rays beat sharply on the maiden's back and a light wind breathed through the folds of her outfit.
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For Trevino, his clients, anyone on the short end, there's no mistaking that law is the handmaid to power, and power is something the vast majority of people here haven't got enough of.
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She was maid of honor at my wedding, gave me a bridal shower, helped me pick out my dress, etc.
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Grown-ups who worked as grooms, butlers, maids or gardeners in the surrounding plantation houses occasionally brought these home with left-over foods wrapped in them.
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The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
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Got my truck washed too in case they need it for some reason as the maid is always getting me to take her somewhere.
A Baptism
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And the idea of a day or two of not being the Captain (and First Mate, and deckhand, and cook, and scullery maid) of the Good Ship Our House is just so, so, so compelling.
Guilt, Trip - Her Bad Mother
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Mrs. Williams responded meekly enough but I was sure the moment I was gone the kitchen maids and housemaids would be treated to a rant.
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She decides to pack an overnight case and visit her maiden aunt, off in the country.
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There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
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At one time, diabolical machines were devised for torture: from the brank, the brazen bull, and the breaking wheel to the heretic's fork, the instep borer and the iron maiden.
Russ Wellen: What Is It with Men and Torture?
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I'll not deny that flowers pop up their heads afield without such call, that the jack-in-the-pulpit speaks its maiden sermon on some other beckoning of nature.
Journeys to Bagdad
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The elder maid-servant wore a good stuff gown — the younger snooded up her hair, and now went about the house a damsel so trig and neat, that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine; and others, that they saw no business so old
Saint Ronan's Well
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I was so rudely interrupted, the one thing only that can balm and embalm this savage breast is the ‘Maiden’s
CHAPTER III
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Yet we have a variety of Krishna scenes—here he tackles a demon serpent, there he fights a demon crane, and in a grouping demarcated by darker walls he romances milkmaids, multiplying himself to dance with each individually.
From Stillness, Cosmic Action
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Agatha used the intercom to buzz what she called ‘servant headquarters’ and ordered two maids to come down.
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A member of the Downtown, Union, Church, Columbia, Devon and Maidstone Clubs, clubable Phelan Beale was not amused.
Michael Henry Adams: Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem
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Next door, at Cruz Vega's place of business, the maiden is carved into a very large picture in which she is in an open meadow.
The colorful wood carvings of Cuanajo, Michoacan
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[T] here are newcomer projects and new films by established directors - these include Joe Dante (e.g. Gremlins), Jorge Gaggero (Live-In Maid), Wang Chao (Luxury Car; The Orphan of Anyang) or Clément Virgo (Berlinale 2006: Lie With Me), as well as all-round talents such as Sarah Polley.
GreenCine Daily: Berlinale. Jury, Panorama, Co-Production Market.
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During one of the visits with the Maids of Honour, they women unclothed themselves in front of Gulliver.
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She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
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The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks.
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This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk.
Archive 2008-12-01
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She is dressed as a beggar maid, her bare shoulders and knees showing through her ripped attire, her gaze unflinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga world has to offer, including fighting maids, a temperamental rain goddess, and — in a unique twist — cute, talking bacteria.
28 « September « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon
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Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.
The History of Pendennis
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She added: ‘I wanted my daughters-in-law to be bridesmaids, my granddaughters to be flower girls and my grandsons to be page boys.’
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A parlourmaid's job is relatively easy, even more so than a housemaid's job and I was given more freedom and more responsibility.
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By the age of four or five, children become nursemaids.
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May 18th, 2009 at 10: 33 pm this mermaid is fake because in the pic the hair is to shiny don’t u think
Top 10 Hottest Animated Disney Women
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A variety of special dishes are prepared from fresh ingredients for ceremonial occasions by the woman of the house and her female maids.
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And, oh, maiden! "added the queen, with benevolent warmth," steel not thy heart against her -- listen with ductile senses to her gentle ministry; and may God and His Son prosper that pious lady's counsel, so that it may win a new strayling to the Immortal Fold!
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
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Chippenham travel agents Lynda and David Brown will get a taste of the high life when they visit the Queen Mary II before the huge ocean liner's maiden voyage.
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The story revolves around his young master Hero who spies a fair maiden in the house next door and falls instantly in love.
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Ortega - who works in charcoal, silkscreen and colored etchings - has drawn a maid tidying a hotel bed, a carpenter hammering a roof.
Mexican-American Artist Brings Immigrant Experience Out of Shadows
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Well, our smiling postman recently delivered a letter to me that had my maiden name on it.
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He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Though she was Abram's wife, and, as such, was obliged to return, yet he calls her Sarai's maid, to humble her.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.
The Virginians
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Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk.
Woodstock Nation
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Below stairs, their maids and valets work in tandem with the house staff, a subterranean world with its own strict hierarchy.
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I tried most of it and when I mentioned it to one of friends, I was asked if this was wise considering that there was a pre-bought bridesmaid dress that I would have to shortly pour myself into.
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When the chambermaid returned to take her plate, Lady Anna entered with her.
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She tells him that Odysseus will not come back and calls her maids in to bathe the beggar and give him finer clothing.
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We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
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She appears at the beach buried in sand to look like a mermaid, and on a snorkelling trip parades a fine pair of sea legs.
The Sun
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She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
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Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid.
Kempton-Wace Letters
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Then I saw that this was no knight, but the Maid herself, boden in effeir of war,
A Monk of Fife
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The rambling grounds beyond, within which nestles the Normandy-inspired hamlet where Marie-Antoinette played at being a dairymaid, are a superlative example of the romantic, landscaped garden.
Gardens of Delight
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Usually the maid removes the bottom of the birdcage with a water-filled plastic container that the birds frolic in, almost always after defecating in it.
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The bride and her two bridesmaids plan to wear vintage dresses.
Times, Sunday Times
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After his death, I trawled through all of his speeches I could locate, from his maiden speech at Westminster to the verbatim report of proceedings at Holyrood.
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With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul.
The Genius
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For Jonathan Edwards, history was the handmaid of Jesus Christ.
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housemaid's knee" but its real name is prepatellar bursitis.
CTV News RSS Feed
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The maid had called her signora; but that might have been a disguise, like the mask and the patches of court-plaster.
The Lure of the Mask
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He was probably off to meet the dusky maiden when he returned to his chalet.
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Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
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It was rather an elderly costume for a bridemaid; but she was determined to dress warmly, and not risk, in muslins and laces, the health which to her now was money, life -- nay, honor.
Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
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Consequently, the black mother, normally a domestic or nursemaid , was the family provider by default.
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Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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Since we learned last week that Gia had the maid bottle feed her baby at night so the little vampire won't "suffocate" her for milk.
Vh1 Blog
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Walke with me (deare sal heart) into my Chamber, and there at a secret little window, I shall shew thee what he doth, that drove thee to such a suspition of me, and we shall heare beside, what answere he will give my maide Ancilla, whom I will send to comfort him in his coldnesse.
The Decameron
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The Rovers' barmaid is being emotionally abused in scenes that are repeated behind closed doors in homes in Greater Manchester and across the country.
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Martin's previous works include Mary Reilly, a reworking of the Jekyll and Hyde story from the perspective of a housemaid, which was made into a 1996 film starring Julia Roberts.
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Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
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The maid seems as devotedly attached to her charge as a foster mother could be.
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Maidan was a city square and also a social-media space.
The Times Literary Supplement
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“I hope, for your sake, he may not — neither a princess nor a cookmaid, nor anything between.”
The Claverings
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Oh dearie me, another killjoy objecting to the 'noisiest' light aircraft doing aerobatics in the skies over Maidenhead.
Undefined
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They tell tales ranging from courtly romances full of gallant knights and maidens-in-distress to rude fabliaux telling of the perils of drink, fighting and lust!
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During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs.
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The maid was changing the sheets when we got back to our room.
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She had been due to be maid of honour.
The Sun
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One delight, as long as it is not too early in the morning, is that everybody, from chambermaids to handymen, make their way around the property pedalling a bicycle and singing sweetly.
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She pushed things around the refrigerator, looking for some convenient leftovers in a Rubbermaid container to nuke.
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The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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A maiden was a good creature to look upon, full-breasted and strong, with spring to her step and light in her eyes.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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Arabella is virtually obsessed with chronicling and analyzing the thoughts and actions of her maidservants.
The Observations by Jane Harris: Questions
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Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
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Nowadays gingkos, or maidenhair trees, are often planted in parks or alongside streets, and they are just turning a brilliant emerald green.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did.
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She sat down at the dressing table, the maid fussing with her hair.
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We find unicorns, mermaids, and mermen; geese developed from the shell-fish known as "barnacles"; we are told that crocodiles may weep, and that sirens can sing -- in short, there is nothing so wonderful to be told of animals that people will not believe the tale.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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Then there was that bowman in the maiden four.
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How can I save the world and rescue fair maidens if I can't work proper gramarye?
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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( "Mermaid") experiment at SM window #9 for another sun-glint observation session, using the bracket-mounted spectrometer (without use of the TIUS three-stage rate sensor), synchronized with a coaxially mounted NIKON D2X camera for taking snapshots, and later downloading the data to laptop RSE1 for subsequent downlink via OCA.
SpaceRef Top Stories
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Rocket man Steve Bennett has started the countdown to his first manned mission - to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' maiden flight.
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Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
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Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink.
A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
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Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck!
I have a quick question for all of you turkey hunters.
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To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
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Outlaw rarely gallops, no longer butts, only periodically kicks, comes in to the pole and does her work without attempting to vivisect Maid's medulla oblongata, and -- marvel of marvels -- is really and truly getting lazy.
FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR
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This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.
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The maid then shook out a large linen table napkin which she placed across the lap of Artemis's best frock.
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There this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone -- even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.
Dracula
