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Example sentences for "maids"

Lexicographically close words:
maidenliness; maidenly; maidens; maides; maidish; maidservant; maidservants; maie; maiest; maiestas
  1. Medical students, stenographers, maids in hotels, women of various classes, farmers in many sections of the country and hundreds of men in different employments in the city were disclosed as the dupes.

  2. Nay, still a child, and as the little maids Dress and undress their puppets, so he tries To dress a lifeless creed, as if it lived, And change its raiment when the world cries shame!

  3. The maids of Nazareth, as they trooped to fill Their balanced urns beside the mountain rill, The gathered matrons, as they sat and spun, Spoke in soft words of Joseph's quiet son.

  4. Their lot was hard enough; But honest hearts make iron arms, And tender maids are tough; So love and faith have formed and fed Our true-born Yankee stuff, And keep the kernel in the shell The British found so rough!

  5. It is a long step from this traditional past of its origin to the short past of the stitchery of America, where the little fingers of small Puritan maids followed the lines evolved by the generations of the earlier world.

  6. Blushing, beautiful maids don't exist in Finland, for which want the Mongolian blood or the climate is to blame, as well as hard work.

  7. II What a corrupted taste is ours When milk maids in mock state Instead of garlands made of Flowers Adorn their pails with plate.

  8. Daylight would bring the maids down and everything must be clear before they made their appearance.

  9. The pistol shots had apparently not been heard by the police, so there was no fear of interruption from that quarter; and as for the maids they were very carefully keeping out of harm's way.

  10. The house-maids arrange it in the morning, and there it stays, a monument of the English upholsterer's idea of a Louis XV.

  11. All these people came to call as soon as we arrived, and parsons and old maids by the dozen, but grandmamma's exquisite politeness upsets them.

  12. The delinquencies of the house-maids are discussed at dinner, the smallest piece of gossip in Tilchester society.

  13. A pair of smart French maids seemed buried beneath them.

  14. This Rarity may now be seen In Lambeth, at a Garden Green, Bowen his Name, who in high Tone, Calls it the Tree of Silver Spoon, Which all the Maids of curious Eyes May there behold of largest Size.

  15. They were roaring out "Green Jackets": "Oh, Irish maids love none but those Who wear the jackets green!

  16. That woman could certainly get milk for her youngsters; but for three months the only foods she and her maids were sure of getting were war bread, potatoes, haricot beans and salt herrings.

  17. But Mrs. Rainham felt vaguely uneasy, and visions floated before her of the old days when governesses and maids had departed with unpleasant frequency, leaving her to face all sorts of disagreeable consequences.

  18. Aunt Margaret's English maids wanted to go back to their friends, and a girl of seventeen could scarcely stay alone in a country torn by two years of war.

  19. But Mrs. Burton and her maids ate them for three months.

  20. She then seated herself; Gerard and her maids remained standing.

  21. He dearly loved maids of honour, and indeed paintings generally; in proof of which he ennobled Jan Van Eyck.

  22. Whereat five brazen hussies, which they call them maids of honour, did giggle loud.

  23. She has the breeding of the old Elizabeth way: which was, for maids to be seen and not to be heard.

  24. But here these bands contend, in alternate verses; the maids descanting on the beauty and advantages of a single life, and the lads on those of marriage.

  25. There, as I strayed, Sudden a black cloud down the rugged side Of AEtna, mixed with fire and dreadful sound Of thunder, rolled around me, and I heard The maids who were my fellows turn and flee With shrieks and cries for me.

  26. The wickedness of maids was a trifle; the death of pets was a trifle.

  27. Without moving their heads they glanced out of the corners of their eyes, watching the manoeuvres of the three starched maids who served.

  28. But, your majesty," remonstrated one of the maids of honor, "you forget your condition.

  29. Charlotte passed the comb through the short hair of the empress, and sighed as she thought of the offering that had been laid in the emperor's coffin; while the other maids of honor stood silent around.

  30. I visit the ladies' maids also, and make them declarations of love?

  31. At the foot of the bed Van Swieten and one of the maids of honor were rubbing her white feet with stimulants.

  32. Her maids of honor saw that she was ill, and hastened to assist her.

  33. A cry of horror burst from the lips of the maids of honor.

  34. Follow me into the next room, where your maids of honor are assembled to attend you.

  35. Without a word she dismissed the maids of honor, all except Charlotte, whose crowning labor it was to give the last touch to the imperial head when the rest of the toilet had been declared to be complete.

  36. She let fall her mantle, and gave her bare shoulders to the wind, enjoying the breeze, and frightening her maids of honor out of their propriety.

  37. She felt a solemn joy steal over her heart, and she desired her maids of honor to deck her in bridal white.

  38. She opened the door softly, and entered the sleeping-room of the princess, followed by the other maids of honor.

  39. The tire-woman, the mistress of the wardrobe, the maids of honor were all at their posts; and Charlotte hastened to take her place behind the large arm-chair in which the empress was accustomed to have her hair dressed.

  40. But the empress, usually so affable at her toilet, surveyed both maids and apparel with gloomy indifference.

  41. Let thy person be embellished now (by these maids in waiting).

  42. We two sisters with our maids habitually used to come to these Manasa mountains for pleasures with the permission of Prajapati.

  43. The illustrious son of Kunti had a hundred thousand well-dressed serving-maids with bracelets on arms and golden ornaments on necks, and decked with costly garlands and wreaths and gold in profusion, and sprinkled with sandal paste.

  44. And eighty thousand Brahmanas also of the Snataka sect leading domestic lives were entertained by Yudhishthira with thirty serving-maids assigned to each.

  45. Madame and the maids brought half-worn garments to swell the size of her own complete pile.

  46. Dark, uncovered heads and black crape shawls, richly fringed, worn corner wise, as only Venetian maids can wear them, discounted tawdry finery.

  47. Several maids from the hotel got off a car to hurry onward.

  48. Still the sport is great and usually the things are good enough to send East to relatives, or else to give to maids about the hotel.

  49. Her aunt's incompetence, the excited maids praying about, were forgotten.

  50. The buildings at St. Anthony rocked in the gale until the maids on the top floor of the hospital said they were seasick.

  51. They were Christmas gifts from the children of the "States" to the lads and little maids of that coast.

  52. Four waiting-maids and nurses two he gave The pretty child.

  53. Supple was her form, And white, as she reclined, by many maids Surrounded.

  54. Bidasari's maids Were glad and said, "Wait but a moment here Until we find what Bidasari wills.

  55. Thus urged, the poor deluded maids proceed Betrayed by zeal to an inhuman deed, And in compassion, make a father bleed.

  56. They had bowed in war; And every spring the flowers of all the city, Young maids in their first beauty, stately youths, Were sacrificed to the fierce king!

  57. I will tell Aunt Jeanne how very careful you are next time I see her, and she will laugh and say, 'Young maids and young calves thrive best under the eyes of their mistress.

  58. This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.

  59. So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

  60. She's out with her maids a playing at the ball.

  61. Light off, light off thy milk-white steed, And deliver it unto me; Six pretty maids have I drowned here, And thou the seventh shall be.

  62. Now charming Mollee in her carriage doth ride, With her hounds at her feet, and her lord by her side: Now all ye fair maids take a warning by me, And ne'er love a married man till his wife dee.

  63. The 'dog' had a 'trick of visiting maids when they were sick.

  64. As I walked out to yonder green, One evening so fair; All where the fair maids may be seen Playing at the bonfire.

  65. They are three milking-maids my mother sent to me?

  66. And the Queen, I may say, That every May-day, Has many fair dairy-maids all fine and gay.

  67. May Timerous Maids learn how to Love from thence And the Glad Shepherd Arts of Eloquence.

  68. On every side she makes advance, And every where a Confidence; She tells for Secrets all she knows, And all to know she does pretend: Beauty in Maids she treats as Foes: But every handsome Youth as Friend.


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