Lahore nurse

Usage examples of amah.

Once her sisters and the amah left the room, Nicola slumped on a chair.

The amah wore a midnight blue sari embroidered with silver threat and a necklace of rubies.

Her muscles tensed in anticipation of the pain the amah and her grandmother had told her she faced.

Drew had become angry but she had to stop him before he invaded her tense body and caused the pain her grandmother and the amah had predicted.

When the amah saw the nearly full cup on he table, she clicked her tongue.

The amah ignored the order and whipped the top covers aside to expose the sheet.

Finally, in despair at my moroseness, the driver landed me at Amah Rock.

She rose from the carpet as an old amah came to enfold her in a dressing gown.

Appalled but fascinated by the bound feet of her amah and other Chinese women, she understood, even as a child, that this barbaric custom symbolized male supremacy.

I was glued to my keyhole, mesmerized, as Fatty piped some command and a score of amahs clacked forward to parade the girls.

The thing to do is treat ghosts as incidental, or the amahs vanish for good.

I found myself inside her royal suite with the doors closing behind me and two amahs coming at me to take off my jacket and pulling me gently towards the private steam room.

Chinese and Malay amahs, Koepanger houseboys or Japanese house staff watched over the young children or pushed babies in high-wheeled English prams.

Those with normal feet were peasants, servants, low-class prostitutes, amahs or workers, and despised.

Ah Sam rushed about officiously and hugged the children, who were waiting in the house with their personal amahs, and propped May-may in the huge bed and brought the children to her.