handmaid

• The boy and the handmaid were nowhere in sight, perhaps concealed among the many large rocks at the base of the cliff. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
• Richardson plays a "handmaid" - essentially a breeder in a world where most women are sterile - hired out to a privileged couple (Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) to conceive their child. —  Bright Lights After Dark
• It is the happy privilege of the true romancer to find history his handmaid, and to make obscure events immortal, whether they be the scuffles of Greeks and barbarians outside a small town in Asia Minor, or the lynching of a dissolute adventurer by an Edinburgh mob at the Grassmarket 69 CHAPTER XXV FAMILY JARS Sidenote: 1737--Unpopularity of George the Second How is the wind now for the King?" —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
• How many a handmaid, ardent and devoted, hath, within the sheltering shade of Bahá, proved superior to the men, and surpassed the famous of the earth The House of Justice, however, according to the explicit text of the Law of God, is confined to men;(2) this for a wisdom of the Lord God’s, which will ere long be made manifest as clearly as the sun at high noon Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá” [rev. —  A Compilaton on Women
• If the author of the Christian Science textbook call on this Board for household help or a handmaid, the Board shall immediately appoint a proper member of this Church therefor, and the appointee shall go immediately in obedience to the call. —  Manual of the Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts

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