servant-girls

The two Irish servant-girls were ill, but she said she should be delighted to receive us if we would help her to do the household work.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Immediately two waiters and two servant-girls, dressed in cloth of gold, and their hair braided with ribbons of tissue, accosted the strangers and invited them to sit down to the ordinary.

Candide 2007

Nenila Makarievna from her spouse; one of the servant-girls respectfully paired off with her master; Fyodor Fedoritch was not parted from Masha.

The Jew and other stories 2006

The row of waiting servant-girls curtsied as though they were a hedge swayed by the wind, while Mr. Wrenn self-consciously hurried to get past them.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

When George was about to undress himself there came a knock at his door, and one of the servant-girls put into his hand a scrap of paper.

The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

There are occasions on which two servant-girls and a waggoner may be a formidable audience, and as the squire rode away on his black pony, even the gift of short-sightedness did not prevent him from being aware that Molly and Nancy and Tim were grinning not far from him.

Adam Bede 2004

He rushed at the door, and there he came against the two negro servant-girls who had returned down to their kitchen from the road on which they had been straying.

Tales of all countries 2004

In San Francisco and other large cities barbers, hack-drivers, servant-girls, merchants, and nearly every class of people would club together and send agents representing all the way from $5,000 to $500,000 or more to buy mines.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The coachmen with their broad hips and rows of buttons down their sides, and the door-keepers with gold cords on their caps, the servant-girls with their aprons and curly fringes, and especially the smart isvostchiks with the nape of their necks clean shaved, as they sat lolling back in their traps, and examined the passers-by with dissolute and contemptuous air, looked well fed.

Resurrection 2003

And then he would take out his mouth-organ and play tunes and music for them, till the two servant-girls would come out and look at him, and listen, with tears in their eyes.

The Growth of the Soil 2003