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  • For in every such case of return, the impulse was sound, -- only that time and space interfered, and propinquity determined whether the object of choice should be bar-maid or peasant girl.

    CHAPTER 8 2010

  • Lydia was a bar-maid before she got sick; it turns out bar-maid is a euphemism for sex worker.

    Jane Wells: Greetings From Kenya! 2008

  • At any rate, there she is, — bar-maid, as we may say, in the hotel, — much the same as our Floschen here; and, of course, such a marriage as this is a great thing; a very great thing, indeed.

    The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

  • This little bar-maid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all the rest of the family.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

  • At the stroke of midnight an overfriendly bar-maid inadvertently shoved him in the ribs.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • I have heard you lavish upon the bar-maid of an inn, or even a college bed-maker —

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

  • There again, may I be hanged, my dear, but I mistook you for the bar-maid.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

  • But what is more, madam, the young gentleman, as you passed by in your present dress, asked me if you were the bar-maid.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

  • He also felt experienced in the ways of the world when, having taken example from the manners of a bar-maid, if he drank in a full room he did not omit to say,

    Travels in England in 1782 2004

  • The servants cry, coming; the attendance is awkward; the bar-maid, too, to attend us.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

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