scullerymaid

Even the scullerymaid was not spared, but had to pass an examination in rites and rituals so severe that one unfortunate, Annie Grace Marks, after Beldam had spoken to her severely for half-an-hour, burst out with an impetuous, "Thank Gawd, she was a Marks, which was as good as the High and Mighty any day of the week, and better, for there wasn't no pride in the Marks and never 'ad been."

The Wooden Horse Hugh Walpole 1912

I might have been let to be scullerymaid but I'd never have been let upstairs.

The Secret Garden 1911

I might have been let to be scullerymaid but I'd never have been let upstairs.

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 1911

And all the servants, from butler to scullerymaid, voted him the jolliest, cheeriest boy that ever came to Hampshire.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

I were something better than a scullerymaid; though of course I know you would have been just the same to a scullery-maid if she had been let in the drawing-room.

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw 1903

I might have been let to be scullerymaid but I'd never have been let upstairs.

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

I had rather be a scullerymaid than a minister's wife.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

I have passed through the preliminary steps of housemaid and scullerymaid, and now, having taken to serving out stores, am quite qualified for the post, especially after my last performance of making bread, and even a cake. '

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873