tirewoman

Then she said to her tirewoman, “Draw back the curtain of the litter;” and she drew back the curtain, till Hind was face to face with

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

These were now considerably effaced, and the lost organ of sight no longer appeared so great a blemish, concealed, as it was, by a black ribbon, and the arts of the tirewoman, who made it her business to shadow it over by a lock of hair.

Castle Dangerous 2008

The dressing of Ethelberta for the dinner-party was an undertaking into which Picotee threw her whole skill as tirewoman.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

Anita the wife of Honophrius, has been told by her tirewoman, For-tissa, that Honuphrius has blasphemously confessed under volun — tary chastisement that he has instructed his slave, Mauritius, to ur;, e Magravius, a commercial, emulous of Honuphrius, to solicit the chastity of Anita.

Finnegans Wake 2006

She was able to slip away with Rusgann Moorcock, the sturdy, plainspoken tirewoman who had become her personal maid during the pilgrimage, after Queen Cataldise preempted the services of both ladies-in-waiting.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

At a prod from the tirewoman, Firekeeper raised her right arm so that Goody Sewer could adjust the pins in that sleeve.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

A sniff from the tirewoman indicated that she had noticed the liberal patterning of scars across Firekeeper's skin.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

The tirewoman who — no matter what she pretended — could not have failed to hear the stories of how Lady Blysse had been discovered in the wilds west of the Iron Mountains early the past spring, sniffed but did not pursue the subject.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

"Try this gown on first," was all the tirewoman said.

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

"I came here," the tirewoman explained, "to fit the young lady for her gowns and found her perched out on the parapet!"

Through Wolfs Eyes 2001