slavey

• “He has been instructed to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pronounced from above.”

  The Newcomes

• “Punch was the champion of the "slavey" -- immortalized in Dickens's "Marchioness" -- even of the much-maligned charwoman; the relentless critic of Jeames, his plush and powder and calves.”

  Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857

• “It is opened after a longer or shorter interval by the "slavey" -- in the morning, slatternly, her arms concealed beneath her apron; in the afternoon, smart in dirty cap and apron.”

  Paul Kelver, a Novel

• “And here to the doorstep came the "slavey," very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen.”

  JOHNNY UPRIGHT

• “The derisive slang term "slavey" expresses the generally prevalent public contempt.”

  Vocational Guidance for Girls

• “And she never did any work that could possibly be handed over to Dick, and the boy was in very truth the "slavey" they called him, and he rarely had enough to eat.”

  Dick Lionheart

• “A man forty-eight, his wife forty-five, three boys fourteen to nineteen, a girl sixteen years of age, a married son, twenty-two, with his wife and baby, living in the same house, another baby coming, and a little "slavey" given food and lodging and clothing for doing the work.”

  Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance

• “Build, cheapen, render alluring a simpler, more spacious type of house for the clerk, fill it with labour-saving conveniences, and leave no excuse and no spare corners for the "slavey," and the slavey -- and all that she means in mental and moral consequence -- will vanish out of being.”

  Mankind in the Making

• “In those days only very prosperous people had more than such an equipage, and it is to be remarked that every drop of water Parload used had to be carried by an unfortunate servant girl, -- the "slavey," Parload called her -- up from the basement to the top of the house and subsequently down again.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Belgian refugee, a sort of "slavey," hung on, because she had no other place to go.”

  World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.

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