What is "maidservant"

Usage examples of "maidservant".

I praise Thee and I thank Thee for that whereby Thou hast favored Thine humble maidservant, Thy slave beseeching and supplicating Thee, because Thou hast verily guided her unto Thine obvious Kingdom and caused her to hear Thine exalted Call in the contingent world and to behold Thy Signs which prove the appearance of Thy victorious reign over all things.

Yes, this would be Hogan the hound and the praying man, Busche, and the one person Strongman would be the most loath to see alive: the Maidservant.

Dame Agnes, accompanied by a maidservant, was walking in the gardens at Deene Park when Susanna and Nick arrived at mid-afternoon the following day.

Glory be unto Thee for that Thou hast confirmed me to the confession of Thy oneness, attracted me unto the word of Thy singleness, enkindled me by the fire of Thy love, and occupied me with Thy mention and the service of Thy friends and maidservants.

This is Imma, my maidservant, who is commanded by the queen to inform me that I have been dismissed as one of her ladies and must quit the palace at once.

Gossip had also reached Jennet that Mark was taking time to pay calls on Temperance Strelley, which put the maidservant in a foul mood to match that of her mistress.

Yes, Lockram stood slightly to his left, glowering at the maidservant.

Lair that the Maidservant, that traitorous wench, had come to a miserable end and the heavenly host had been routed, Rafar gloated and laughed.

The maidservants who had been forced to rewash all the sheets after Desmond had hurled fat globs of mud at their freshly washed laundry hooted with delight.

At a tiled entrance way a maidservant bowed low, then took them down the hall into a large, airy room with a blue and white floor.

Her two maidservants settled on pallets on the floor alongside Prissy and Maria.

Far from protesting against this outrage, the law actually sanctioned it by the provision that no girl over twelve be allowed to make lace, lest the supply of maidservants be diminished.

The two eunuchs led Blade back to the bed and then summoned a doctor to examine him, two more eunuchs to bathe him, and four maidservants with a meal.

A maidservant poured wine and brought a tray of delicacies, withdrawing with the immaculate discretion of one trained to serve an adept of Cereus House.

From this evening, she is cook and maidservant together, scrubwoman and scullery maid as well.