abigail
Example Sentences
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With slow and measured tread they walked, while to their right minced Betty, a small abigail, swaying a lantern.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
Foster-sister and confidential abigail to the Marquise de Gange, the two were as united as if they had indeed been sisters.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
On the left is the cunning abigail, who supplanted the duchess in the favour of Queen Anne—Mrs. Masham.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
I have prepared, however, another carriage for the abigail, and all the trumpery which our wives drag along with them.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
The anxious abigail felt that they were in precisely the same harrowing position as Sister Anne and Fatima.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
