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  • Ajíb314 — the Wonderful — because of his beauty and loveliness; so he committed the babe to the midwives and wet-nurses and handmaids and serving-women, and they reared him till he was full seven years old, when his father gave him in charge to a divine of his own folk and faith.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I shot swans, hunted cats, frightened serving-women, chased the deer, and robbed the orchard.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Though she received only sixty francs a year in wages, she was supposed to be one of the richest serving-women in Saumur.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • For when she came close to those ladies as they sat at table, and her raiment brushed the raiment of the serving-women as she passed by, then saw she how no breath came from any of these, and that they neither spake nor moved, because they were dead.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • “Let us have wine upon our peace,” she said, and called to her serving-women.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • A long procession of serving-women came to bathe her forehead and give her drinks.

    The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

  • Let her sweep the chambers, force her thereto, and let the unfortunate one stay where our serving-women are. '

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Let her sweep the chambers, force her thereto, and let the unfortunate one stay where our serving-women are. '

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • There were answering cries from the shrieking cockatoos, from the peacocks who trailed their tails sadly in the dust, from the cooks and the peasant serving-women who had assembled to bid the distinguished guests adieu.

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

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