kitchen-maid

So instead I compiled a mental list of all the women I'd had in my life, from that sweaty kitchen-maid in Leicestershire when I was fifteen, up to the half-caste piece I'd been reprimanded for at Cawnpore, and to my astonishment there were four hundred and seventy-eight of them, which seemed rather a lot, especially since I wasn't counting return engagements.

Fiancée 2010

Princess Isabella went down to the dining room, looking forward to breakfasting with her parents, yet when she arrived she found waiting there a nervous little kitchen-maid, wringing her hands.

Begonia {part one} 2010

And finally he found a kitchen-maid who recalled seeing a man in a back passage, just before the supper was served.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

It is felt especially in “Remember the One Caught by a Horn,” which uses a lively portrayal of a suffering kitchen-maid in order to attack the way the rich treat the poor.

Maskilot, Nineteenth Century. 2009

“Then we shall only need a footman and a kitchen-maid, and you can surely keep an eye on two strangers — —”

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Then somebody glided in noiselessly; Knight softly glanced up: it was only the little kitchen-maid.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

The cook (for there was a woman-cook as well as a man-cook) said to the kitchen-maid that SHE never could see anything in that creetur: but as for the men, every one of them,

The Rose and the Ring 2006

You see she stipulates for everything — the time to come; the time to stay; the family she will be with; and as soon as she has improved herself enough, of course the upper kitchen-maid will step into the carriage and drive off.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Are we to be ashamed or pleased to think that our hearts are formed so that the biggest and highest-placed Ajax among us may some day find himself prostrate before the pattens of his kitchen-maid; as that there is no poverty or shame or crime, which will not be supported, hugged even with delight, and cherished more closely than virtue would be, by the perverse fidelity and admirable constant folly of a woman?

The History of Pendennis 2006

“He takes no more notice of me than if I was a kitchen-maid, and of Woolsey than if he was a leg of mutton — the dear blessed little cherub!”

Mens Wives 2006