abigail

• In another minute the abigail was upon her again, pulling shift and dress over her head and fastening buttons and hooks with lightning speed. —  Loretta Chase - The English Witch
• I could send an abigail, but I believe it will be easier this way.
• Her cheeks flamed before the sharp eyes of the abigail, and then flamed again with scorn at her own folly It is all neat and clean and tidy. —  The Fortunes of the Farrells
• I have prepared, however, another carriage for the abigail, and all the trumpery which our wives drag along with them Ever thine, most affectionately B Footnote 75: He here alludes to a circumstance which I had communicated to him in a preceding letter. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• A student of all the natural products of the East, I did not neglect while there to bestow a proper share of study on Indian womankind; and as my Fyzabad abigail was a noteworthy specimen of her species, I may as well gratify the curiosity of the untraveled to know what she was like. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875

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