What is "housemaid"

Usage examples of "housemaid".

Leukoderma is as common in housemaids as in field-laborers, and is in no way attributable to exposure of sun or wind.

That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.

Trim housemaids were hurrying backwards and forwards under the directions of a fresh bustling landlady, but still seizing an occasional moment to exchange a flippant word and have a rallying laugh with the group round the fire.

His most trusted valet and the housemaid were yet again in a squabble as to who would deliver the recently received missive to the library.

He was busy flirting with one of the housemaids, his swarthily handsome face creased in a reassuring smile, his gold front tooth glinting in the firelight.

Samuel Locke, another from the class, was not only the youngest man ever chosen for the presidency of Harvard, but to Adams one of the best men ever chosen, irrespective of the fact that Locke had had to resign after only a few years in office, when his housemaid became pregnant.

After a pause she proceeded to give the dull histories of housemaids, bootboys, and so forth.

Since Charlie Donaldson and most of the footmen had accompanied Jonet to Cambridgeshire, he was admitted by a housemaid whom he scarcely recognized.

Waring mentions the case of a housemaid who carried a rhinolith, with a cherry-stone for a nucleus, which had been introduced twenty-seven years before, and which for twenty-five years had caused no symptoms.

But there were the Upper Stillroom Maid, the Head of Housemaids, the Head of Parlormaids, and several other Heads of Somethings.

Maybe she had been a housemaid behaving mischievously by waving to a man she recognised as a sailor and had been dragged back by the housekeeper or even by Moses.

Her dress was a puritanical grey one with a broad white linen collar: over it she was wearing a plain brown holland apron, like those which the housemaids wore when cleaning.

He wagged his tail, what there was of it, and fell down and rolled over and barked the tiniest yip Olivia had ever heard, as everyone laughed, and Geoffrey took him to show the cook and the housemaid.

Instead she went briskly down the staircase through the baize door at the back of the hall and wished Anneke, Has and the housemaids goodbye.

On the present occasion I was fortunate in having had that get-together with the housemaid and the cat Augustus, for it gave me what they call in France a point d'appui.