housemaiding

“Who looks after you here and does the housemaiding?”

Death in Ecstasy Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1936

I took her to mean that my housemaiding had to a certain extent lightened her labours, and I was filled with pride; I have seldom received praise that gave me more pleasure.

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

I clambered up on the furniture and cleaned the windows of my cell to show I could do some extra housemaiding without harm.

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

One of the reasons I took on as many housemaiding jobs as I could was that it enabled me to be let out of the ward for the emptying of slops, and this afforded a good opportunity for seeing and occasionally communicating with ordinary prisoners.

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

If it hadn't been that I had a deal of housemaiding to execute during the week I was here before Mr. C.. returned, I must have given occasion for newspaper paragraphs under the head of 'Melancholy Suicide.'

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

And I don't approve of housemaiding for my daughter. '

Elizabeth's Campaign Humphry Ward 1885

This Miss Granger called giving them a solid foundation; but as the edifice destined to be erected upon this educational basis was generally of the humblest -- a career of carpentering, or blacksmithing, or housemaiding, or plain-cooking, for the most part -- it is doubtful whether that accurate knowledge of the objective case or the longitude of the Sandwich Islands which Miss Granger so resolutely insisted upon, was ever of any great service to the grown-up scholar.

The Lovels of Arden 1875