Housemaids

Enter Mrs. Middleton who is the housekeeper, followed by two Housemaids.

THEFT 2010

Housemaids were passing briskly from room to room, but Mrs. Thornbury avoided them; she hardly saw them; they seemed to her to be in another world.

The Voyage Out 2004

Housemaids came and went, themselves taking considerable of the young wife's attention; our machinery today spares us more than physical toil.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Housemaids ain't in general on friendly terms with the quality, but your ma was so kind to us servants,

Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter

Housemaids were passing briskly from room to room, but Mrs. Thornbury avoided them; she hardly saw them; they seemed to her to be in another world.

The Voyage Out 1915

Housemaids and still-room maids would giggle, and kitchen-maids and boot-boys would grin and whisper in servile tribute to the witticisms of the superior servants.

T. Tembarom 1913

Housemaids were passing briskly from room to room, but Mrs. Thornbury avoided them; she hardly saw them; they seemed to her to be in another world.

The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

Enter Mrs. Middleton who is the housekeeper, followed by two Housemaids.

Theft A Play In Four Acts Jack London 1896

Housemaids, etc., 'unable altogether to cook,' - but she settled it all with her customary glegness [cleverness]; and seeing the thing now fairly in motion, went off home again on the Sunday morning,

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Housemaids, in large establishments, have usually one or more assistants; in this case they are upper and under housemaids.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861