maiding

Thank you to the past and future brides I am "maiding" for--thank you for asking me to share this special day with you, for allowing me to help you in any way I can, and for not asking me to wear hideous blue taffeta creations or anything with a large bow on the back!

Always a bridesmaid Angie 2004

And my occasional attachments to the Court of St James's have been no exception; nurse-maiding little Willy was really the most harrowing job of the lot.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Ovocation of maiding waters. 2 For auld lang salvy steyne.

Finnegans Wake 2006

I just want to talk to your Uncle Parth here about what it takes to find a cushy job like what he's found for himself, nursie-maiding for old Colonel Burvelle. '

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

She was maiding a fool out of herself with these stupid suspicions, this panic.

Strangers In the Night Linda Howard 2001

All the time you wasted nurse-maiding those slaves when they were in chains!

The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

Deliciously pretty, full of joyous spirits and invariably kind, she danced her way up from scullery-maid to the heights of house-maiding at the Hall with a light heart and, as was found to my cost, what her eighteenth-century namesake would have called a light skirt.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

Deliciously pretty, full of joyous spirits and invariably kind, she danced her way up from scullery-maid to the heights of house-maiding at the Hall with a light heart and, as was found to my cost, what her eighteenth-century namesake would have called a light skirt.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

"What I had in mind was nurse-maiding Margo through the Britannia Gate."

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

She was an excellent servant and thoroughly understood maiding a professional singer; moreover, she was much attached to her mistress.

The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler