house-servants

This goal is made clear when she explains that graduates of the "industrial program" will receive certificates – and that "the names of those receiving the certificates are kept on record, and so far as possible their future records as house-servants will be inquired into."

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

The house-servants gathered on the stair, because it was a main interest with them to know which of these two was the better horse; and for the space of two hours they were heard to go at the matter, hammer and tongs.

Lay Morals 2005

Young Hugues was nowhere in sight, nor any of the house-servants.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Instead, they were taught as far as possible to be carpenters or gardeners, or house-servants, or, among the girls, dressmakers, even school-teachers.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Those servants closest to Kyrtian and his mother would have to be the best ac'tors of the lot, which meant that certain of the younger and less experienced house-servants (such as Lynder) would be replaced for the duration with others who had been promoted to other positions or had even retired.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

The point was, they weren't professional, trained fighters; they were fanners, house-servants, herders.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

They would have to put up with enforced chastity until they returned to their own homes, for house-servants, unless they actually offered themselves or were of - fered by the host, were considered off-limits.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Father owned all our workhands and house-servants; and mother often told me that she had been a slave and was bought by father at the market in New Orleans on account of her beauty.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

He encouraged his driver to work the field-hands from early dawn till late at night; and the good appearance of the house-servants, and the preaching of Snyder to the field negroes, was to cause himself to be regarded as a Christian master.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

The trained house-servants of the South are the best in the world.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various