cook-maid

A black cook-maid cared for him for much of the day.

Sixties: Coming Of Age 2008

But all women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humour with themselves when a man is taken with them at first sight.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

We all, as before, and the cook-maid too, attended the prayers of the church in the afternoon; and my dear father concluded with the following stanzas of the cxlvth psalm; suitably magnifying the holy name of God for all mercies; but did not observe, altogether, the method in which they stand; which was the less necessary, he thought, as he gave out the lines.

Pamela 2006

The poor cook-maid has had a bad mischance; for she has been hurt much by a bull in the pasture, by the side of the garden, not far from the back-door.

Pamela 2006

Mr. Williams, Mrs. Jewkes, and I, have been all three walking together in the garden; and she pulled out her key, and we walked a little in the pasture to look at the bull, an ugly, grim, surly creature, that hurt the poor cook-maid; who is got pretty well again.

Pamela 2006

She knew that it was her lot to be driven about slowly in a carriage with a livery servant before her and another behind her, and then eat a dinner which the cook-maid would despise.

The Belton Estate 2004

Yes, yes, we understand your ogling; but you must content yourself with a cook-maid, sink me!

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

This fray being with difficulty suppressed, by the intervention of our own footman and the cook-maid of the house, the squire had just opened his mouth, to expostulate with Tabby, when the town-waits, in the passage below, struck up their music (if music it may be called) with such a sudden burst of sound, as made him start and stare, with marks of indignation and disquiet.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

His wife had been, for a considerable time, a cook-maid to Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, who procured for her husband, from the Duke of Queensberry, an advantageous lease of the freestone quarry of Gatelowbrigg, in the parish of Morton.

Old Mortality 2004

My Dorothy and the cook-maid settle these things between them.

She Stoops to Conquer 2004