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  • Thank you to the past and future brides I am "maiding" for--thank you for asking me to share this special day with you, for allowing me to help you in any way I can, and for not asking me to wear hideous blue taffeta creations or anything with a large bow on the back!

    Always a bridesmaid Angie 2004

  • And my occasional attachments to the Court of St James's have been no exception; nurse-maiding little Willy was really the most harrowing job of the lot.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Ovocation of maiding waters. 2 For auld lang salvy steyne.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I just want to talk to your Uncle Parth here about what it takes to find a cushy job like what he's found for himself, nursie-maiding for old Colonel Burvelle. '

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • She was maiding a fool out of herself with these stupid suspicions, this panic.

    Strangers In the Night Linda Howard 2001

  • All the time you wasted nurse-maiding those slaves when they were in chains!

    The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999

  • Deliciously pretty, full of joyous spirits and invariably kind, she danced her way up from scullery-maid to the heights of house-maiding at the Hall with a light heart and, as was found to my cost, what her eighteenth-century namesake would have called a light skirt.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Deliciously pretty, full of joyous spirits and invariably kind, she danced her way up from scullery-maid to the heights of house-maiding at the Hall with a light heart and, as was found to my cost, what her eighteenth-century namesake would have called a light skirt.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • "What I had in mind was nurse-maiding Margo through the Britannia Gate."

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

  • She was an excellent servant and thoroughly understood maiding a professional singer; moreover, she was much attached to her mistress.

    The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

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