waiting maid
Example Sentences
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The only person who perhaps might tell me something, her waiting maid, is as silent as the grave.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
She then dressed herself in the priest's robes, and decked herself in all the marks of his dignity, and her waiting maid clad herself like the sacristan of the goddess Isis.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
Madame," the waiting maid said to her the next afternoon, "the gentleman is desirous of setting forth upon his journey again.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
The waiting maid, who had received orders not to quit him under any pretext, was sleeping heavily in her chair; on the bed at the further end of the room lay the man.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
She had had a waiting maid, born and brought up in Maravillas, and it was from her, in her moments of excitement, that Clementina picked up the greater part of her slang and sayings.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
