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She was at Stalham for a fortnight before her marriage, in order, as Lady Albury said, that the buxom lady's-maid might see that everything had been done rightly in reference to the trousseau.

Ayala's Angel 1993

Colonel Trestrail, who gave in his chambers carefully devised banquets, compounded by a Bengali who was undoubtedly something of a genius, wrote to say that this personage had left at a day's notice, in order to embrace Christianity and marry a lady's-maid who had just come into a legacy of a thousand pounds under the will of her late mistress.

The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

Under no circumstances is a lady called upon by the rules of etiquette to give fees to men servants; the lady's-maid and the housemaid are the only ones she is expected to remember; but if a gentleman visit where only female servants are employed, he should make them

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

The wages of a coachman are 8 l., a housemaid 8 l., a noted cook 16 l., and a lady's-maid 10 l.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various

In an arm-chair, placed on the stage right opposite the toilette-table on the stage left, attired as a smart lady's-maid, reclines Sylla sound asleep; on the table are scattered bracelets, &c., and also stands an open jewel-case.

Belles and Ringers Hawley Smart

The butler came in, and the lady's-maid holds out to him a beautiful bracelet all sparkling with jewels.

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson

Fine teeth and hair, supposed false; but the lady's-maid has high wages, and has not yet been brought to confess.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828 Various

The cutty sark, so appropriate when displaying the free, vigorous stops of Maggie Lauder, is not to be worn by every lackadaisical lady's-maid of a muse.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

France except her lady's-maid and one other, for the French people were saying things against the King and making mischief.

The Children's Book of London

Mrs.G. J. trusts she is obliging, and would have no objection, when the lady's-maid has a press of work, to assist her with it, or make herself generally useful in any other way.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston