servant-woman

• “The servant-woman was lamenting in a corner, the cure was praying, and his sobs were audible, the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping.”

  Les Miserables

• “Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed. —”

  Les Miserables

• ““Yá dádati”: dádat is an old servant-woman or slave, often applied to a nurse, like its congener the Pers.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “I went into the room, followed by the servant-woman, and was amazed to find that it, like the one below, was wainscoted, and that nothing like drapery was to be found near the door.”

  The Purcell Papers

• “At night she would go rambling with him to disturb and torment people at their doors and windows, dressed like a servant-woman, for”

  The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

• “They were let in by the servant-woman; and in half an hour afterwards the three prisoners -- Jackson, his wife, and Jane Riddet -- were safe in Farnham prison.”

  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

• “The promised "all" was this: Morgan was passing slowly by Jackson's house, in the hope of seeing either Mr. or Mrs. Rogers, when the servant-woman, Jane Riddet, ran out and begged him to come in, as their lodger had been taken suddenly ill.”

  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852

• “As he was one day poking through the passages, he suddenly encountered an enormously big, fat servant-woman, engaged in cleaning a stair.”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

• “A decent-looking servant-woman opened the door, and to my inquiry replied that Herr M--- y was certainly at home, but whether engaged or not she could not answer.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861

• “An indented servant-woman purchased her liberty and secured a reward of one hundred pounds by pretending to give information of a plot formed by a low tavern-keeper, her master, and three negroes, to burn the city and murder the whites.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861

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