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Why is a reportedly traumatised hotel chamber-maid awaiting the huge pressure of a high-profile attempted rape trial?
Newspapers don't put a brake on sexual antics. They fuel them | Deborah Orr 2011
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With that, Polly gave him a reassuring hug or two to keep him going, and then giving that confiding mite of a hand of hers to be swallowed up in the hand of the Constantinopolitan chamber-maid, trotted off, chattering, without a vestige of anxiety.
Mugby Junction 2007
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With that, Polly gave him a reassuring hug or two to keep him going, and then giving that confiding mite of a hand of hers to be swallowed up in the hand of the Constantinopolitan chamber-maid, trotted off, chattering, without a vestige of anxiety.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Constantinopolitan chamber-maid: who cheerily undertook that the child should sleep in a comfortable and wholesome room, which she herself would share.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Constantinopolitan chamber-maid: who cheerily undertook that the child should sleep in a comfortable and wholesome room, which she herself would share.
Mugby Junction 2007
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A chamber-maid has sometimes caused revolutions in courts which have produced others in kingdoms.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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There is, at all courts, a chain which connects the prince or the minister with the page of the back stairs, or the chamber-maid.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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She did, however, at last succeed in persuading the chamber-maid to furnish her with a carpet-bag, with which in her custody she arrived safely on the following day at Merle Park.
Ayala's Angel 2004
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Call down Dolly your chamber-maid, and I will give you my cap and bell along with it, if
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Hobby Horsical per se; — had become no mean proficient in the science; and was thought, by the cook and chamber-maid, to know as much of the nature of strong-holds as my uncle Toby himself.
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