bedeswoman

A few weeks later, addressing him as ` ` Right worshipful master, '' she calls him ` ` mine own sweetheart, '' and ends up, as she frequently does, ` ` your servant and bedeswoman. ''

On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 1921

A few weeks later, addressing him as "Right worshipful master," she calls him "mine own sweetheart," and ends up, as she frequently does, "your servant and bedeswoman."

Little Essays of Love and Virtue Havelock Ellis 1899

She tried to prevent the old woman from noticing it, pushed it into the hottest part of the stove, and, by way of further precaution, took the old woman away with her, on the plea of asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna, and this was granted to her.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

She tried to prevent the old woman from noticing it, pushed it into the hottest part of the stove, and, by way of further precaution, took the old woman away with her, on the plea of asking the Queen to make her a bedeswoman at Vienna, and this was granted to her.

A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

As Lady Warwick said, when the ladies were all wearied out with the endeavour to control their Queen's waywardness and violence, and it sighed away like a departing tempest before Esclairmonde, 'It was as great a charity as ever ministering as a St. Katherine's bedeswoman could be.'

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

His groom, who had succumbed for a time to wounds and weakness on his way home to Alnwick, was touched by the warmth and emotion with which the kind bedeswoman listened to his lamentation over the good and loyal knight, whom she pictured to herself resisting the enchantress's dread power as dauntlessly as he had defied the phantoms of the Dance of Death.

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It was unpardonable; and as to a bedeswoman, working uncloistered in the streets, Lily viewed that as neither the one thing nor the other, neither religious nor secular; and she was persuaded that a little exertion on the part of the brother, whom she viewed as a paladin, would overcome all coyness on the lady's part.

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

'The Countess had been a lady of hers, and wrought with her, so that whenever the post of bedeswoman is in her gift

The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862