kitchen-wench

Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;

Romeo and Juliet 2004

“He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench.”

Household Tales 2003

“No,” said the man, “There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride.”

Household Tales 2003

Was it Nitouche, the head-cook, who was grumbling because the kitchen-wench had not scoured the brass saucepans to the last point of mirrory brightness?

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

I didn't want to bite and scratch like a kitchen-wench.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose.

Act II. Scene IV. Romeo and Juliet 1914

S. Marry, sir, she’s the kitchen-wench, and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.

Act III. Scene II. The Comedy of Errors 1914

” “No, ” said the man, “There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride.

Cinderella 1909

“He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench.

Cinderella 1909

She had suffered so much from that particular class of the risen kitchen-wench of which the woman before her was so typical and example: years of sorrow, of poverty were behind her: loss of fortune, of kindred, of friends -- she, even now

The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906