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But at the same time the morning star, the emperor's son Busujok, and the evening star, the maid-servant's son Siminok, appeared in the sky.
Roumanian Fairy Tales Various
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The maid-servant's child precisely resembled the royal one.
Roumanian Fairy Tales Various
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"And if he smite out his man-servant's, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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"And if he smite out his man-servant's, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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They became tall youths and looked so much alike that people could never tell which was the prince and which the maid-servant's son.
Roumanian Fairy Tales Various
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I resided forty-four years in the Southern States, and it is with pride that I record the fact, that a Southern gentleman would dispose of anything -- everything -- carriages, horses, stocks, tenements and lands, before he would dispose of such servants as Uncle Tom, and his wife's maid-servant's child, and thereby break his wife's heart.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery A. Woodward
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They wore out his front lawn, the hall carpet, and the maid-servant's temper; but they always found Smith himself patient, affable, ready to say whatever they wished him to say.
The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913
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He immediately and quietly assumed the man's place in the room; attended to every one's wants, lessened the pretty maid-servant's labour by waiting on empty cups and bread-and-butterless ladies; and yet did it all in so dignified a manner, and so much as if it were a matter of course for the strong to attend to the weak, that he was a true man throughout.
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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The door opened noisily and again the maid-servant's head was thrust in.
Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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[Page 267] out of your reach altogether, and I want to know how all things fare with you, from the renewed face of your room down to the doings of your maid-servant's 'second advent.'
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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