waiting woman
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A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Lord save us, Mark, this is an awfu' business; a French waiting woman here!
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
The second witness was Sarah's cook, the third her waiting woman.
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Jeremiah Curtin
"Oh, yes, my lord, though she is only a rough peasant, she will try and do her best, and the jongejuffrouw has her own waiting woman with her as well."
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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