waiting-maid

So she stood in the snow at the Greek girl's door, with the frost at sixty below, and parleyed with the waiting-maid for a full five minutes.

Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

So she stood in the snow at the Greek girl's door, with the frost at sixty below, and parleyed with the waiting-maid for a full five minutes.

THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

Another, Lucy Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few months.

Sole Music 2010

“Well, master Roland,” said the waiting-maid, “I must tell my mistress, that if she would have an answer, she must either come herself, or send those on errand to you who can beat the door down.”

The Abbot 2008

“Marry, open the door, and you shall hear,” answered the waiting-maid.

The Abbot 2008

They will follow up such and such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn a porter.

Les Miserables 2008

She was attended by a waiting-maid with a lantern, by means of which she examined the party on the outside, as closely as the imperfect light, and the spars of the newly-erected gate, would permit.

Redgauntlet 2008

The old woman turned short around on the officious waiting-maid.

The Abbot 2008

“Say to my Lady, that I will directly wait on her,” answered the page; and returning into his apartment, he once more locked the door in the face of the waiting-maid.

The Abbot 2008

“Heard mortal ears the like of this!” said the waiting-maid, with her hands expanded and her eyes turned up to heaven;

The Abbot 2008