What is "slavey"

Usage examples of "slavey".

Long ago, when Dad was working for the Bay, there was a breed of Indians along the Liard, some sort of Slaveys, that had got into their heads that they were kind of Scots, and every St.

Will you find yourself able to look upon her as a slavey, knowing yourself forever forbidden to touch her?

The services of this slave are required elsewhere, therefore will you be attended by a slavey, learning of his duties so that you may be aided in your decision.

They slowed as they passed the slavey who had been about setting a large oval metal shield into the sand by its rim, waited till he had completed his task, then hurried him out before them.

As Katherine approached she found that the house before which it stood bore the number she sought, and on reaching it she found the door held open by a little smutty girl, the very lowest type of slavey, with unkempt hair, and a rough holland apron of the grimiest aspect.

With a word to the fainting old miser, she descended to the chaotic kitchen, where she rejoiced the heart of the small slavey by the sight of the cold beef and bread she had brought for her.

He went into the small tea shop and ordered tea of the slavey and when the boy had put it smartly before him and with an impudent gesture had caught and tossed the penny he paid for it, Wang Lung fell to musing.

In one a man sat smoking in his shirtsleeves, from another a slavey leaned out watching a fourwheeler that had stopped next door, in a third a woman sat sewing, and in a fourth a woman was ironing, with a glimpse of a bedstead behind her.

I was thinking if Josie got him, and made him into a slavey, she never let go of him.

The slavey minding the house knew nothing about Old Bond or champagne.

Her appearance was now so wretched, unkempt and filthy, that not even the meanest of Eighth District cook shops would have considered taking her on as a kitchen slavey, and she knew it.

So we went for a walk round by the canal and she told me she was a slavey in a house in Baggot Street.

And at that very minute our slavey, little Ethelbertina, knocked at my bedroom door and gave me a postcard.

Half were proud buffalo hunters descended from the mixed marriages of voyageurs and HBC clerks with Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Chipewyan, Dogrib and Slavey women.

Lucrezia put away the remains for a light evening supper, set her slavey to wash the dishes and pots, went upstairs and slept until dark, her day complete, her joy spent.