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Sentence Examples Rosy-cheeked maids prepared herbed vegetables from the palace gardens, and pies of every description! He was also very hungry and Marion went outside to scold the maids for not remembering to bring him food at mealtimes. There too I had heard heart-rending stories of the way maids were exploited and ill-treated by their employers. I took Jenny's mallet and watched as she and Nicole went up to where one of the maids was had set a washing basin. She tells him that Odysseus will not come back and calls her maids in to bathe the beggar and give him finer clothing. I never liked to be in the room when the maids came into replace the bedding. Sometimes clients or their families treat caregivers as maids or domestic servants. Similarly, women in domestic service as housekeepers or parlour maids had to make a choice between work and marriage. Together, maids and social reformers began to call for a restructuring of domestic service. Over 30 percent of MGM's cartoons released between 1946 and 1953 presented either characters in blackface or servile African American maids. The contract covers maids, bellmen, cocktail waitresses and food service workers. It will also not impact upon the introduction of Filipino workers as caregivers, maids and crews. Bradford was practically exclusively raised from his mother's side of the family, his aunt Jessica and Patricia, two old maids. The maids were well paid, well fed, well rested, well clothed and if some emergency cropped up they were given leave without the blink of an eye. The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks. The rest of the evening throughout the night was a fast blur as the maids scurried and everyone got ready to leave. She, Eleanor, now slept by the hearth in the kitchen, and her apparel was the simple undyed cotton dress that the maids were given to wear. So obviously it is better for the economy that women work and employ maids or nannies. It was obvious in the pride Jyller had and her bossy nature at ordering the maids around. Everything was blooming and many local handymen, gardeners and maids were on the road. Show More Sentences They walked down to the basement level, and found a wing for all of the cooks, servants, maids, and butlers. Soon the maids were swarming around the breach in the wall as bees desperately trying to protect its beehive. After that I fantasized for hours about living in such a house and having several maids and butlers instead of our one. If rap's future is tending toward simplicity, this is the Jetsons version, all flying bubble cars and robot maids. Two native maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones. A group of maids had gathered together and were giggling and laughing over some unknown joke. I could hear the maids knocking on doors and rattling keys in locks down the corridor, so I decided to go back to my room and wash there. I feel obligated to clean up after myself since I'll be running into the maids all month. The kitchen maid had let it slip out that one of the maids had slipped something into the Queen's supper. Between sobs he had stirred, whisked, and vehemently scolded the kitchen maids into attending their own bowls as reverently as he did his own. She's got countless maids, butlers, a chauffeur, a horse groom, and a million other servants as well! I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room. This produces a mind-set that puts maids at the lowest level of the social structure. For example, in American cinema they were caricatured as clownish, desexualised mammies or maids. Visiting valets and lady's maids know their place and take on the names of their employers. A fire breaks out suddenly in the house of the Empress, due to negligence of one of her maids. Her maids had curled her hair and powdered it with gold dust, and were finishing an application of painted patches to her face. And then I saw another sleeve that was a big leg-of-mutton sleeve that the maids used to sew into the garments for eveningwear. The tribute does not applaud or pay homage to the people who are depicted as maids, but to their servitude. There are at least three reports each year of procurers kidnapping maids off the street and forcing them into prostitution. Show More Sentences The wedding music sounded and the bride's maids and the ring bearer began to walk down the aisle. She exhaled in a great rush, rippling the water's surface, and reached for the soaps and scented oils her maids had left her. We glimpse hatted ladies, aproned maids, babies in prams, children and dogs. We always had two maids, one who lived in and one who came by the day to do the cleaning. In Edwardian times many lower class woman would work as servants or maids for upper class families. The maids there didn't even look up as he lumbered past ovens and drying herbs. She pouted, writhing in her bloating dress as the maids stuffed her feet into the black polished court shoes. Most female migrants to the first world find employment as maids or domestics. These flowers have a plumpness which denies them the typical daintiness of February's fair maids. The air was filled with the noise and clatter of servants and maids from every quarter. Every room had maids and servants and butlers all cleaning and decorating his home. She opened the door and saw one of the serving maids on her way to the first floor. A variety of special dishes are prepared from fresh ingredients for ceremonial occasions by the woman of the house and her female maids. Below stairs, their maids and valets work in tandem with the house staff, a subterranean world with its own strict hierarchy. Carefully avoiding maids and other assorted servants, Signe successfully made it to the dining room without being seen by anyone. When single women began to settle in the United States, they went into domestic work as maids, cooks, and housekeepers. Hired security was just like any other kind of staff, just like the maids and the servants and drivers. A simple rhinestone or pearl necklace and earring set will enhance the look of your maids. Mrs. Williams responded meekly enough but I was sure the moment I was gone the kitchen maids and housemaids would be treated to a rant. We had always agreed to be each other's maids of honor or matrons, depending on who got married first. Show More Sentences The bride's dress will probably be finished with a faux fur shrug and the bridesmaids and maids of honor will adorn lots of silver and gold! I was bored, and those silly ninnies you call scullery maids are no fun at all. Still, porcelain sculptures of cherubs and ballet dancers still remain fashionable, along with images of pretty maids and loving couples. Is it because if we did it here the action would centre on maids and ayahs rather than wives? The women gather around the table on which the chessboard has been set up as two maids enter from the left with refreshments and a tea tray. Women in many families have become the breadwinners, taking low-paying jobs as maids or at the country's new textile factories. We had two maids and a chauffeur who used to drive us to Jaffa and Haifa for picnics on the weekend. Although they worked as maids or cooks or domestics in the secular world, these women could put on an usher's uniform or badge and be quite visible. The maids polish the silver, quiet the colicky infants, and iron dresses with 65 pleats on the waist. This impacted the travel industry dramatically and affected many African Americans who serviced travelers as taxi drivers, hotel maids, and redcaps. Gerard ter Borch made headlines, while his rival in delft was painting maids with earrings. The accompanying photos made them look like crazy ladies and discontented old maids. Concentrated primarily as laborers, teamsters, deliverymen, waiters, servants, maids and laundresses, they held many of the lowest paid and least skilled jobs in the city. The demonstration was in opposition to government plans to levy a new tax on those employing guest workers as domestics, and to cut the minimum wages of maids. Blake remembers the Artichoke Inn, on the muddy lane through Lambeth Marsh, and the village maids and the lusty lads outside it, dancing in a ring. Dinner ended with the maids and servant folk clearing the table. People were forever writing letters to each other, says Fellowes, asking where they could find decent cooks and competent maids or reliable footmen. They reluctantly agree to share their stories with skeeter and recruit other maids to rat out their employers, too. In addition to bringing Brittany to the crown, Anne left an indelible mark on French court life by introducing the concept of the queen's maids of honor. Instead of tea and bread and butter, which has prevailed of late years, the maids of honor in Queen Elizabeth's time were allowed three rumps of beef for their breakfast. Show More Sentences Sally Lunn's buns are perhaps not as well known as Bakewell tart, Richmond maids of honour and Eccles cakes but that is because they never appear outside their home town. The maids bringing in lace caps and a box of hair powder on the left are probably her maidservants, Antonia Vanderbrocht and Petronila Valdearenas. There is a grouse plucking scene in the kitchen, in which the cook and two scullery maids are tearing at the birds as if they have lost their minds. The scullery maids and female staff curtsied and then departed. You mean to say that you have seen all the maids of the land? A staff of over 200 full-time cooks, maids, gardeners, builders, drivers, translators and security staff cater for the film student's every possible need. The last time he went away, he came home to find two of his serving maids pregnant and his entire supply of vintage brandy and best silverware gone. Several maids were trying to revive her with smelling salts. By the time the maids got back from the shore, peacocks had wrecked havoc on the waiting food. I have no idea how the others manage to take such personal attentions for granted, to the point that they can't function without their personal maids and valets. And you'll be a viscountess, with maids to answer to your every whim. In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen. Not because you had a huge house with tons of maids and butlers. Grown-ups who worked as grooms, butlers, maids or gardeners in the surrounding plantation houses occasionally brought these home with left-over foods wrapped in them. We moved into a bigger house and hired a few maids and butlers. As illegal divers working for the Asian export market continue to thin abalone populations, the survivors are dying off as old maids and bachelors. Saint Catherine died a virgin, and so was also associated with old maids. Do you wish for you and your sister to grow into single old maids? In the towns, people work as street vendors, in the construction industry, as maids and housekeepers, or as plumbers, electricians, or carpenters. I'm ordering some for my Bangla workers and Indon maids to drive around. Show More Sentences The kitchen maids had piratically screamed the house down in their wake, calling out orders, arguing, spilling flour and milk, cleaning it up, and even crying. A photograph of a wedding taken in the 1950s shows the occupations of those pictured as gamekeepers, hydro-electric workers, laundry maids, cooks and gardeners. For dairy maids would cattle drive To summer pastures green, And in their hands a Rowan rod Protecting cattle from the evil eyne. I could also do with less smuggery from the BBC, Scotland's metereological maids. I entreat you also, on behalf of my maids, to give them marriage portions, which is not much, they being but three. Below that stood skilled laborers, maids, servants, sailors, and other persons employed in the service industry. Is there no manners left among maids? will they wear their plackets where they should bear their faces? O that tis not the fashion in France For the maids to kissle before they are married. The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds. After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another. At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids. During the 20th century many of the houses which had formerly been the residences of single families with maids or other staff were divided into flats and offices. To the maids across the way he was Julia's beau, and if not quite Beau Geste, a gent and well dressed. Obviously he was a chocolate soldier, a bouquet boy. The three little maids are Sandra Tinson, Maggie Lowe and Amee Bason. Formerly the domain of cooks, undercooks, and scullery maids, it wasn't even a room a householder would lay claim to, much less single out with items of personal interest. And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. More than a century ago, to give his womenfolk an illusory monsoon during the hottest months, a maharana created the Maids of Honour garden. She was joined by Karen's Caper and the pair battled up the run-in before Maids Causeway got up by a short head. During one of the visits with the Maids of Honour, they women unclothed themselves in front of Gulliver. In the hands of less-assured actors, The Maids can slip into humourless camp. Show More Sentences All three of the Maids had a moon adorning their foreheads and necks, sparkling in the candlelight. Maids with flowers pranced down the aisle and their perfume wafted through the air. Maids always wore their hair in tight buns, but the hair of this maid was falling down around her neck. An ominous little black pig fills a corner in The Maids, a premonition of the murders to come. These powerful images are a far cry from Scottish artist John Finnie's 1864 idealised Maids of All Work, looking blithe and bonny in crisp cottons. Maids Causeway, Vista Bella and Karen's Caper filled the places, but despite her starting price, this seemed almost like a routine victory for the Ballydoyle filly. In barren Women, and stale Maids, Tapping should be very cautiously undertaken. In this procession there are also six Maids of Honour, a brass band, the church choir, and anyone who wishes to join in by carrying their own decorated rushbearing. The Manager of the Year award is designed to honor the person who most consistently displays exceptional ability in managing a franchise of THE MAIDS Home Services. Examples from Classical Literature Large eyes were the fashion, as may be readily judged from the many pictures of ox-eyed maids which have been preserved. At the present day a queen regnant has eight maids of honour, a queen consort four. A little girl in Punch improves on the talk of her dowdy mother with the maids. He raised his hand as the pertest of the maids would have answered him, and there followed an uncomfortable pause. This was accounted for by the fact that there were no old maids in that polygamous country. When you came to pay the servants, how would you like it if each of the men and maids had a fixed charge? Let me curr to quercine shades Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! I know not what the world is coming to, when young maids may flout their elders. I'm going to hunt up three soft-headed old maids and learn to kiss their hands and tell 'em I have nobody but them and God! Linda had had maids, Polack and Swedish girls, and Irish country girls hardly intelligible in speech. We two sisters with our maids habitually used to come to these Manasa mountains for pleasures with the permission of Prajapati. Flunkies and maids flew distractedly about with fur coats, muffs, and stoles. I'm sure I must have the honor an' glory of Ladin' on my arm one of the queen's maids of honor. Whatever was spoken of he would bring round to the superstitiousness of old maids, or the petting and spoiling of children. In our home, furnitures and even the manner of maids hair-dressing were all in genuine Japanese style. It is only mediocrities and old maids who consider it a grievance to be misunderstood. And on my side, I'm sick of maids with their airs and graces and vulgarities. Why the Deeny girls, them old maids as never twisted their stiff necks to bow to man or beast in these parts, them was the wurst. It is the way with maids, the nearer they are to mothering the less they wish to hear of it. Sweet peas is gettin' on gradely, and Fair Maids o' France, just ready for the fair maids who buy 'em! Show More Sentences Gourlay's men took their cue from their master, and were contemptuous of Barbie, most unchivalrous scorners of its old maids. Will you go with me as one of my maids, or as a tirewoman perchance? The old maids, in particular, of forty years and upward, and dry in proportion, devoured his photographs day and night. Here are you and I, who consider ourselves twice as presentable and conversable as she, two old maids. Goddess in a golden hall, Fairest maids around her gleam, Wine-fumes of the festival Daily waft her into dream. A new MOL policy requires recruitment companies to provide replacements for maids who abscond from their employers. The maids were still breathing, but more restlessly, and I fancied that the narcotic was wearing off. Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. The brazen-faced maids in the house accosted her as one of their own kind. Rochester and the other gentlemen directed these alterations, the ladies were running up and down stairs ringing for their maids. A full-time staff of butlers, chef, maids, laundresses, gardeners and security and maintenance professionals ensure every detail is handled. It was nine o'clock, and the maids had cleared the dining table. Four maids of honour, we learn, were enceintes to Essex at the same time. Two or three open carriages arrived, and deposited some maids of honor and some male officials at the hotel. The housekeeper, the old nurse, the cooks, coachmen, maids, footmen, postilions, and scullions stood at the gate, staring at the wounded. She had but two maids with her, finikin lasses, with black eyes and broad bosoms, who set off their lady's more delicate beauty well. The Professor watched whilst I went downstairs with Quincey Morris, and sent one of the maids to pay off one of the cabmen who were waiting. At this speech all three of the pretty maids looked down, blushing and simpering. And one of the maids coming too near, she shooed her angrily away. The dinner, which was elaborate, was served by two trig maids. Show More Sentences Out of it come three maids, whose names are Urd, Verdande and Skuld. Quirky pictures from dog shows, including Skye terriers dressed up as French maids and Scottish bagpipers. Then he had slipt into the kitchen like a soldier sweetheart of the maids. The matron and maids of honor were the bride's sisters, Mary Melinda Little, Salena Kathryn, and Clara Marguerite Tew. I am sharing a tent with two old maids and a sten from Richmond. Be sure that at the worst the unnameable shall not happen to the maids. The maids looked at one another and laughed, while pretty Melantho began to gibe at him contemptuously. I now was expected to try to grab the maids and kiss them wantonly. After they had partaken of food and drink the maids rose, danced and sung. In them there is inspiration, and the Pierian maids show favour unto them. Some of the best and most honored women I know were poor girls, but so love-worthy that they were not allowed to be old maids. Old maids are quoted as thinking that it distracts the game. Gay youths and maids pass and repass to the sound of music and laughter. Were not Achilles and Ajax both in love with their servant maids? But mice eat bumble-bees and cats eat mice and old maids keep cats. They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I don't feel that weakness in myself as yet,I know a little person who is very unhappy with her father. Anne of Austria's maids of honour included Catherine de Monchy, damoiselle d'Ocquincourt, who served her from 1618 to 1624, when she married a marechal de France. Betty was one of the maids in the little red brick house in Kensington. It's mandatory on all recruitment companies to provide substitutes for absconding maids to their employers over the entire term of their contracts, the Ministry of Labor said. He receives these wares not only from treacherous valets or maids, but frequently from genteel ruffians, who have gained the confidence and affection of trusting women. Show More Sentences He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids. The two old maids, Misses Walsh, who complained every day about the noise in the halls, inquired immediately if anybody had looked behind the clock. She was careful not to go too fast for Ulysses and the maids who were following on foot along with the waggon, so she plied her whip with judgement. At first she found it amusing to give away dresses and ribbons to the maids, but when that was done and what was left had still to be packed, she found it dull. His host and his host's household, his men and his maids, as they became intimately known to Clare, began to differentiate themselves as in a chemical process. People have maids, house boys, drivers, office boys, the list goes on. ServiceMaster is pleased to announce that Laura Hendricks has joined the company as President of Merry Maids. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with maids What is the adjective for maids? What is the noun for maids? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words maid of honor maid-of-all-work maiden voyage maiden speech Maidens maidens maidservant maid-servant Maidu Maiduguri maieutic maigre 5-letter Words Starting With m ma mai maid