Maid Sentence Examples

The maid lost her balance and toppled over.

The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made.

Presently a maid appeared and said that the Princess Victoria was "in a sweet sleep and could not be disturbed."

A tea kettle was already whistling when they entered, and the maid rushed across the kitchen to grab it.

It was a well-known fact that Mrs. O'Hara would never surrender her kitchen to a maid, so the alibi passed as genuine.

The maid brought it.

Katie sat on a barstool at the breakfast bar, watching the maid pour tea into two mugs sitting beside the stove.

Gladys Turnbull was pounding away on a lap top computer in a corner of the parlor while young Martha and Donnie played a game of Old Maid on the sofa.

Jeffrey Byrne, age 38, of 156 Maid Marian Lane, Parkside, apparently drowned in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May fourth while on a business trip in Norfolk, Virginia.

They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery; but to promise a maid to marry her... to deceive, to kidnap....

I've never had a maid.

The In February 1839 this young lady, a daughter of the "Bed- marquis of Hastings, and a maid of honour to the chamber duchess of Kent, was accused by certain ladies of Plat' the bedchamber of immoral conduct.

Very few of the frescoes have been identified, but two are illustrations of stories in Arya Sura's Jataka Maid, as appears from verses in Buddhist Sanskrit painted beneath them.

Wearing her rich attire, and accompanied by her maid, who carries a bag of provisions, she goes over to the hostile camp, where she is at once conducted to the general, whose suspicions are disarmed by the tales she invents.

Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.

She rose and saw Dunyasha her maid, who was evidently looking for her, and who stopped suddenly as if in alarm on seeing her mistress.

Dean was halfway out to 156 Maid Marian Lane before it dawned on him he'd neglected to pick up his just-in-case change of clothes.

When Dean pulled in the drive at Maid Marian Lane, Randy was walking a bike into the open garage.

She died two years later, leaving an only daughter afterwards known as the Maid of Norway.

The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess Mary.

Marya Ignatevna Peronskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostovs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball.

I didn't know Russell had a maid.

She snatched a wooden cutting board as the maid rounded a counter with the knife raised.

One hundred fifty-six Maid Marian Lane was a neatly kept ranch to which a one-car garage had been added.

The Code contemplated that such a wife would give a husband a maid as above.

He conducted the trial with marked partiality and malevolence, condemned the maid to imprisonment for life, and then, under pressure from the populace and the English, had recourse to fresh perfidies, declared Joan a relapsed heretic, excommunicated her, and handed her over to the secular arm on the 30th of May 1431.

No sooner is he overcome with sleep than Judith, seizing his sword, strikes off his head and gives it to her maid; both now leave the camp (as they had previously been accustomed to do, ostensibly for prayer) and return to Bethulia, where the trophy is displayed amid great rejoicings and thanksgivings.

The Bruce party took up arms, and from the terms of their " band," or agreement, obviously contemplated resistance to the rights of the Maid of Norway, while declaring their fealty to Edward.

Edward procured a papal dispensation for the marriage of the Maid of Norway to his son Edward; the Scots were glad to consent, and preliminaries were adjusted by the Treaty of Birgham (18th of July 1290).

Then there's the peek-a-boo maid which is strictly for private fun.

A French maid is supposed to be juicy, so it only makes sense that there are plenty of plus size costumes to choose from.

Say you want the classic French maid look, for example--you will find dozens of variations.

As classic as a nurse or French maid, a really lovely bra and panty set with a garter belt, stockings, heels and perhaps a transparent robe or feather boa will never go amiss.

After a long night of festivities, there's only one way to clean things up--send in the maid!

Check out the four-piece maid costume for only $22.95!

Instead of needing a maid to help tie a corset, women could slip into these undergarments on their own.

Yes, the idea isn't new, but the old standby of the French maid costume is still very sexy.

For women who preferred to wear a back-lacing corset, they usually had to rely on either a maid, mother, daughter, sister or roommate to help them dress.

The maid of honor and/or bridesmaids often give a special wedding night negligee, teddy, or baby doll or camisole and panty set to the bride-to-be for her wedding night.

The same is true of costumes, like a French Maid costume.

She's no stranger with the police and has been arrested quite a few times--once even for throwing her cell phone at her maid!

Maybe your French maid costume came with white panties rather than black.

Be a nurse, a pirate, a school girl, a French maid, or anything you'd like.

Bridal party buttons let everyone know who's who when the bride, maid of honor, and bridesmaids wear their title on their shirt.

For example, Santa might give the person with the messiest office a maid for the day, or the person who consistently spills coffee on his shirt might be given a set of bibs.

Household robots made to be a butler or maid will facilitate the "couch potato".

A long time ago, a house maid is rumored to have hanged herself on the upper floor of the hotel.

The ghost of a house maid supposedly haunts the building.

It had been originally designed as a maid's quarters and it was the last room they rented when Bird Song was otherwise booked.

The two detectives spoke with Leo the waiter, the night clerk and the maid.

In 1396 the combat between the Clan Chattan and the Clan Quhele, described in Scott's Fair Maid of Perth, took place on the North Inch in presence of Robert III.

Together with his wife and her maid he set out in July for the Netherlands in order to be present at the coronation of the young emperor Charles V., and if possible to conciliate the good graces of the all-powerful regent Margaret.

A celebrated beauty, a maid of honour and bridesmaid of Queen Victoria, she married, on the 10th of December 1843, Archibald, Lord Dalmeny (1809-1851), member for the Stirling Burghs, who became a lord of the adrriralty under Melbourne.

In 1261 his queen bore, at Windsor, a daughter, Margaret, who later, marrying Eric, king of Norway, became the mother of " The Maid of Norway," heiress of Alexander III.; the girl whose early death left the succession disputed, and opened the flood-gates of strife.

Drury lost his only daughter, and in 1611 Donne published an extravagant elegy on her, entitled An Anatomy of the World, to which he added in 1612 a Progress of the Soul on the same subject; he threatened to celebrate the "blessed Maid," Elizabeth Drury, in a fresh elegy on each anniversary of her death, but he happily refrained from the third occasion onwards.

During the latter part of the 19th century a popular cult of the Maid of Orleans sprang up in France, being greatly stimulated by the clerical party, which desired to advertise, in the person of this national heroine, the intimate union between patriotism and the Catholic faith, and for this purpose ardently desired her enrolment among the Saints.

When Margaret, the Maid of Norway, died in 1290, Comyn was one of the claimants for the Scottish throne, but he did not press his candidature, and like the other Comyns urged the claim of John de Baliol.

The succours which were coming to his aid from Paris were defeated by the Maid at Patay a few days later, and for the most part destroyed.

The drive to Maid Marian Lane was becoming more familiar with each passing trip—no more need to count the blocks.

When you say " we turned from Dea ", are you referring to some distant ancestress of contemporary maid?

Suguru Misato's search for a maid turns up an unlikely candidate in the form of the cute retired battle android Mahoro.

He nods a pop-eyed assent to everything the maid is telling.

Lively sister Lucy, Saucy little maid, Going up behind her, Pulls her yellow braid.

Not uncommonly, the maid or matron of honor hosts the bridal shower for the bride to be.

Of our own mares, Martine's Maid by Its Without Doubt had a very nice colt by Hot Rumor called Brendonhill Lancelot.

The second maid had been woken by the commotion and also went to look at her master.

Her maid, of whom she had been obliged to make a confidante, had had her bled by a student, her lover.

Then he threw a decanter at that maid, Theresa Wright; there was trouble about that.

Faire Maid, is't thou wilt doe these wondrous feats?

A maid to wait upon a lady and young ladies, good dressmaker and hair dresser, age not under 25 years.

A month ago I tried it on your father's footman, and in a week he'd married a perfectly strange parlor maid.

Getting increasingly frantic, she asked the parlor maid, Sarah Cox.

Quhar Thai com, thai maid thaim gat; Barb. xiii.

But a maid had mistakenly filled the pot with real gunpowder instead of Chinese tea.

Therese's pretty maid came to tell me that my carriage was at the door.

Original playbill gives the title as Goodwin Sands or The fair maid of Kent.

We also had a visit from a genuine Welsh French maid, in the guise of Thelma Hey.

Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.

On the Monday the parlor maid collected the laundry.

Our educational officer will also talk about the life of a laundry maid.

Warp speed and, hopefully, I'm transformed from kennel maid to sultry vamp.

At the time of their marriage in 1912 my mother was the lady's maid at the French Embassy.

Do you want her to become an old maid?

And, with mutual courtesies, the little old maid and I went on our respective ways.

Access to the water can either be through Balloch Park or via the road to the Maid of the Loch paddle steamer pier.

Her daughter, Margaret the ' Maid of Norway ' becomes heir presumptive.

So Kumkum was more or less treated like a Head maid servant in her own house.

When this was finished, the maid would take a pair of metal tweezers and remove any facial hair that was visible.

During the stormy session, French had a waitress who was wearing a French maid's uniform serve drinks to him.

Although backed by Catharine's father Simon, Henry appears too warlike to win the hand of the mild-mannered ' Maid ' .

The maid had not free game pogo whomp word yet arrived.

She remained mistress of her maid and might degrade her to slavery again for insolence, but could not sell her if she had borne her husband children.

The house of Catherine Glover, the "Fair Maid of Perth," still stands in Curfew Row.

But commentators are not at one as to which countess of Salisbury was the heroine of the adventure, whether she was Katherine Montacute or Joan the Fair Maid of Kent, while Heylyn rejects the legend as " a vain and idle romance derogatory both to the founder and the order, first published by Polydor Vergil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no better ground than fama vulgi, the tradition of the common people, too trifling a foundation for so great a building."

They slew the sheriff of Angus (1391-1392) in a battle, and then two clan-confederacies, quarrelling among themselves, put their cause to the ordeal of fight, in the famous combat of thirty against thirty, on the Inch of Perth (see Scott's Fair Maid of Perth).

It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.

The little princess was sitting at a small table, chattering with Masha, her maid.

The prince will be out in a moment, came the maid's voice at the door.

With Sonya's help and the maid's, Natasha got the glass she held into the right position opposite the other; her face assumed a serious expression and she sat silent.

For the scullery maid, the day began very early.

Twice daily maid service with special turndown amenities including hot water bottle.

During the stormy session, French had a waitress who was wearing a French maid 's uniform serve drinks to him.

Although backed by Catharine 's father Simon, Henry appears too warlike to win the hand of the mild-mannered ' Maid '.

I may need to hire a maid because it is difficult to keep the home at the level of cleanliness that I desire.

Julie had recently delivered her second child and was to be the maid of honor at her sister's upcoming wedding.

As maid of honor, Julie really wanted to toast her sister at the wedding and participate in all of the festivities but was worried about possibly passing on any alcohol to her baby.

The former maid's quarters upstairs is now a rental suite and the back sun porch is now the garden room (pictured at left).

While characters can hire a maid service and a gardener, they still have to work in order to pay their bills.

If you're doing cleaning activities, try writing coupons to say things like, "One hour maid service in room of your choice," or "Making my bed in the morning."

If your best man and maid of honor went beyond the call of duty, you'll want to get them something extra special.

I could see my maid of honor trying to subtly--and then more emphatically--get the attention of the wedding coordinator, to no avail.

The maid of honor had a bit too much to drink or she simply forgets what to say.

Of course you would, and even if you don't think of yourself as a prolific speaker, you can give a great maid of honor speech!

Actually, you'll need to begin preparing as soon as you are asked to be the bride's maid of honor.

Collect information on maid of honor speeches from wedding books, Internet sites, and bridal consultants.

As you've probably already guessed, there is a wide variety of maid of honor speeches.

Be sure to thank the bride for asking you to be the maid of honor.

Finally, end the maid of honor speech on a happy and upbeat note, and express good wishes for the couple.

The matron or maid of honor, a close friend, or a co-worker is usually expected to host a wedding shower.

If you'd like to do something different, a special piece for the maid of matron of honor, for example, you certainly can.

The maid of honor and other bridesmaids meet to set a date, decide on a theme and coordinate shopping and decorating for the event.

This is a fun addition especially to the maid of honor's jewelry set to help her to feel set apart from the crowd.

Guests are welcome to call the bride's mother, maid of honor or shower hostess for wedding registry information.

The maid of honor and best man speeches usually offer words of congratulations.

Print off only the pages that are needed in order to show the mother of the groom or maid of honor the item.

Instead, inform your maid of honor and/or best man of your intentions, and leave it to them to notify your guests by word of mouth.

The maid of honor may offer information about the registry in her correspondence with the bridal shower guests.

Some brides and grooms even ask their children to serve as an honorary maid of honor or best man.

Some brides choose to have their maid of honor carry a slightly different bouquet than the other bridesmaids, though it still is not as elaborate as the bride's flowers.

To find out if your vows are too over-the-top, consider reading them to your maid of honor and best man to get feedback.

Sister and maid of honor Pippa Middleton also wore white, almost immediately starting a trend for brides-to-be.

Their wedding party consisted of Nicole's sister Antonia Kidman as maid of honor, and Nicole Kidman's daughter, Isabella, as a bridesmaid.

According to MSNBC.com Scoop, the "maid" of honor will be photographer David LaChappelle, and the bride will forego her wedding bikini for a traditional white wedding gown (hey, you in the back, no snickering).

In January 2007, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for throwing her crystal-encrusted telephone at her maid, Ana Scolavino in March 2006.

The maid shook Ledger, apparently in an effort to wake him.

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Sale Johnson, Casey was found dead in her Los Angeles home by her maid.

Casey's body was found by a maid, who called 911 and the L.A. County Coroner's office speculated that she may have died days before her body was discovered.

Good single kinds are Maid of the Mist, white with finely fringed petals; The Bride, also white; Flag of Truce, Miss Sherwood, with pale pink edges; Danebrog, a very handsome flower in scarlet and white; and Mephisto, scarlet and black.

To add a more personalized touch, she could even have a few special and unique words added to each crystal jewelry box to truly individualize this special gift for her bridesmaids and maid of honor.

A bride may give her best friend a pendant to thank her for being her maid of honor, or friends may split a pendant when one of them moves away.

Spicy Lingerie offers dozens of plus size fantasy lingerie sets and costumes including a mesh Parisian Maid costume, a Tuxedo Bunny Teddy and a Sexy Devil Costume.

For fantasy lingerie, check out 3 Wishes, which also uses some plus size models and shows how sexy the classic costumes of nurse, maid and naughty schoolgirl can be.

You could have a luxurious lifestyle, including maid service, a large home, and beaches in your backyard for a low cost.

Want to get these wrestling gals in a maid costume?

Go to Edit Costume and you should now find the maid costume.

Another hockey commercial opens with seductive music and a woman sprinkling rose petals while wearing a French maid costume.

Chances are your home is lovely just as it is, or it's quite possible it could do with a maid's magic touch.

Next, pick card games that the whole family will enjoy - if you have young children, try a game like Old Maid.

Old Maid is also known as a "scapegoat" card game, in which you try to not have a particular card in your hand.

Then, players pull one card from the others' hands and hope to not draw the Old Maid.

Have you ever wondered who first came up with idea of the French maid costume?

Today, the French maid's costume is one of the most popular forms of women's fantasywear and the occasional subject of sexual fetishism.

There's even French Maid TV, an internet newscast featuring stories read by beautiful women dressed in a variety of French maid costumes.

While the traditional French maid costume is a short, clingy black satin dress trimmed with white shirred lace, there are now a variety of outfits for you to choose from.

And, if you want to show off your sense of humor, you can also purchase a French maid costume for your dog.

No French maid costume is complete without the required accessories.

Since the French maid costume isn't diminishing in popularity anytime soon, you can purchase your outfit from almost any store that sells Halloween costumes.

Adults can become their favorite movie or TV characters, channel a great ruler of the past, or become a sassy French maid.

From the seductive innocence of an alluring angel costume to the over-the-top sexiness of a French maid or sexy nurse outfit, there are many different hot costumes available.

Converting an old brides maid dress or evening gown into a fairy costume might be the easiest.

If the best man and maid of honor are already selected, they should toast before other close friends.

Remember sitting around the dining room table or on the floor of your living room playing kids card games like "Old Maid" and "Go Fish"?

Play will continue until all pairs have been produced, and whoever is left with the odd card is the old maid.

In addition to flash cards, playing cards such as Old Maid are easy enough for preschoolers to master.

Films on the list of the worst include All About Steve, Nights in Rodanthe, A Walk to Remember, Maid in Manhattan and Valentine's Day.

His remark about how she looked in the swimsuit made it obvious that he saw her as something more than a baby sitter or maid.

She was the maid, the baby sitter - nothing else in his eyes.

It's our home and you're more than a sitter or maid to all of us.

He hired me as a sitter and maid.

She was becoming a bitter old maid.

He was offering her a job as a live-in maid.

Why had he suddenly decided he needed a maid - or was it sudden?

Lady luck intervened when the director removed a twenty dollar bill from his wallet for a tip for the maid and Howie was able to record the bill number.

There was no sneaking in with a butler and maid waiting at the door.

He released her and tossed his coat to a waiting maid before motioning Sofia to follow.

Katie asked, her gaze going to the maid.

The sound of footsteps running down the hall drew her attention, and she flung herself backwards as the maid with the butcher knife tried to cut her.

I got the word from this friend, an old maid clerk who likes me 'cause I didn't treat her like shit like everyone else does.

Most of their friends were local to Maid Marian Lane where they had lived for nine years.

The drive to Maid Marian Lane was becoming more familiar with each passing trip—no more need to count the blocks.

In The Downfall Matilda Fitz Walter escapes from the persecution of King John by following her lover to Sherwood Forest, where they took the names of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, and lived apart until they could be legally united.

Their several histories were fused by the Elizabethan dramatists, and associated with the Maid Marian of the morris dance, who up to that time had probably only a vague connexion with Robin Hood.

The surviving Scots fought under Jeanne d'Arc till her last success, at Lagny, under Sir Hugh Kennedy of Ardstinchar in Ayrshire, but James (May, June 1429) made a treaty of peace with Cardinal Beaufort, which enabled Beaufort to send large reinforcements into Paris, where the Maid, deserted by Charles VII., failed a few months later.

In 1284 he induced the Estates to recognize as his heir-presumptive his grand-daughter Margaret, the "Maid of Norway"; and next year the desire for a male heir led him to contract a second marriage.

His aunt, Miss Mary Moody Emerson, a brilliant old maid, an eccentric saint, was a potent factor in his education.

Dunand, Jeanne d'Arc et l'eglise (1908); and especially Andrew Lang, The Maid of France (1908).

He attributed his pleasant disposition to memories of the prior evening with Cynthia Byrne, the sweetheart of Maid Marian Lane.

Later, a maid went down to the landing, stowed away luncheon, water-bottles and costume word game in the canoe.

I hope you will go with me to Athens to see the maid of Athens.

It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna.

Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.

From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile.

She said, 'Girl,' to the maid, 'put on a livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some calls.'

The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received from Masha, the lady's maid, the necessary report of how handsome the minister's son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time.

She drew her brother's attention to the maid who was calling him in a whisper.

She had washed behind her ears just as carefully, and when she entered her drawing room in her yellow dress, wearing her badge as maid of honor, her old lady's maid was as full of rapturous admiration as the Rostovs' servants had been.

Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid, he would say.

Anatole followed the maid into the courtyard, turned the corner, and ran up into the porch.

A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.

The fire broke out alongside, and blew our way, the maid called out 'Fire!' and we rushed to collect our things.

He held his head higher, his eyes shone with the light of life, and with swift steps he followed the maid, overtook her, and came out on the Povarskoy.

Pierre, accompanied by the maid, was advancing to the spot where the general stood, but the French soldiers stopped him.

Dunyasha, her maid, entered the room quickly and abruptly with a frightened look on her face and showing no concern for her mistress.

The heiress wouldn't deign to invite her maid to dinner.

The maid costume will then become available under Edit Costume.

French maid costumes are the ultimate in sexy costumes.

Pretty much all of the outlets listed above sell Playboy-inspired bunny costumes, which are usually something similar to a French maid costume with fishnets, a tiny bow tie and a headband decorated with bunny ears.

Sallie White was a hotel maid who was murdered by her husband.

Nanette Lepore's French Maid booties ($138.90) are casual and sweet at once, with a sling-back heel and just a touch of ruffle detail along one side.

She came to Stars Hollow when Rory (Alexis Bleidel also seen in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Tuck Everlasting) was just a baby and got a job at the Inn as a maid.

Viewers learned that Lorelai managed the Independence Inn although she got her start there as a maid when Rory was a baby.

The popular Maid Of The Mist tour takes tourists on a close-up ride of Niagara Falls.

Maid Of The Mist is the most popular of all the Niagara Falls activities for families.

At around $35 for a family of four, Maid of the Mist is an experience that must not be missed.

The fact that the hotel is a short walk to the Maid Of The Mist is an added plus.

Maid Of The Mist is the most popular of all the Niagara Falls activities.

Keep in mind that not all Puerto Vallarta budget vacation rentals include such amenities as maid service.

I have known Cinderella ever since she was a scullery maid.

Baby doll variations can be seen in such classic fantasy costumes as the nurse and French maid.

If you've always wanted to dress up as a French maid, Hustler's got your costume.

Often the maid of honor and/or female attendants purchase special wedding night lingerie for the bride.

Some classic scenarios include the nurse, the schoolgirl and, of course, the French maid, sometimes also called the upstairs maid, or just the maid.

French maid lingerie is some of the easiest to find.

Hotsie Totsie Maid, which is an open bust ruffled teddy, headband, glovettes and single leg garter.

Upstairs Maid is a babydoll set to extremes with an abbreviated sheer babydoll, panty, hat and wristlets.

When it comes to intimate dress-up, there's little that's more classic than the fantasy French maid costume.

Everyone knows what the standard naughty French maid costume looks like.

At Funky Boutique, for example, they have eight very naughty maid costumes.

They range from the Halloween maid costume, which can more or less be worn in public, even though it is made of Patent PVC and lace.

The featured French maid's outfits on this site will have both of you saying ooh la la!

An Upstairs Maid costume featuring a lace bra and G-string with matching apron and gloves.

There was no one but the maid, who was halfway down the stairs.

The maid had set down the tea and retrieved a butcher knife from a drawer.

They must have followed you to Maid Marian Lane and thought Vinnie might be stashed there.

The legend of St Agnes is that she was a Roman maid, by birth a Christian, who suffered martyrdom when but thirteen during the reign of the emperor Diocletian, on the 21st of January 304.

Blackmore in his tale The Maid of Sker (1872), based on a legend associated with Sker House, a fine Elizabethan building in the adjoining parish of Sker, which was formerly extra-parochial.

And she had a lady's maid, also big.

Katie," she said to the maid, "bring the princess her gray dress, and you'll see, Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it," she added, smiling with a foretaste of artistic pleasure.

That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy.

While they were talking a maid thrust her head in at the other door of the sitting room.

His satellites--the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook, two old women, a little pageboy, the coachman, and various domestic serfs--were seeing him off.

A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure.

And the people too are quite mutinous--they no longer obey, even my maid has taken to being rude.

At that moment a maid sent by the countess, who had noticed her daughter's absence, knocked at the door.

It was now, however, impossible to get back the way he had come; the maid, Aniska, was no longer there, and Pierre with a feeling of pity and disgust pressed the wet, painfully sobbing child to himself as tenderly as he could and ran with her through the garden seeking another way out.

The only person who didn't view her as a sitter or maid was Yancey, and his viewpoint was as a lover.

A piece of the broken door slashed her as she fell, and she scrambled away as the maid slashed at her again.

The maid lunged at her again, and she darted for the kitchen, followed by Jared.s blood monkey, who was wailing with frustration.

The maid dropped silently, her nose busted and blood splattered across her features.

As Dean drove away from Maid Marian Lane, he made up his mind to find out if the world had put a crown on Saint Jeffrey a lit­tle prematurely.

Monogamy was the rule, and a childless wife might give her husband a maid (who was no wife) to bear him children, who were reckoned hers.

Louise became maid of honour to Anne of Austria, and Richelieu sought to attract the attention of Louis XIII.

By listening to the revelations of the "Holy Maid of Kent," the nun Elizabeth Barton, he was charged with misprision of treason, and was condemned to the loss of his goods and to imprisonment at the king's will, penalties he was allowed to compound by a fine of X300 (25th of March 1534).

Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage.

I can't do it like that, said the maid who was holding Natasha's hair.

The butler opened it when she approached, and a maid stood waiting to take her coat.

Hannah's eyes widened, and she rose, angling her past the butler and a maid dusting a painting to the second floor.

If the maid gave her the airline info, she could call to confirm her sister was on board.

On the drive to Maid Marian Lane, one thought plagued Dean's spinning mind.

His latest drama, The Foresters, now received his attention, and in March 1892 it was produced at New York, with Miss Ada Rehan as Maid Marian.

After this disaster he issued a third Mississippi Valley novel, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, in 1894, and in 1896 another historical romance, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, wherein the maid is treated with the utmost sympathy and reverence.

She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room.

They say he is dying, replied the maid with a sigh.

Martha was playing nurse maid to both Howie's limitations and his fragile ego while struggling with morning sickness and her stressful hospital position.

One of the most affecting things in his novels is the heroic constancy and fidelity of the maid Amy to her exemplary mistress Roxana.

After the death of Margaret, the "maid of Norway," in 1290, Bruce's grandfather, the 6th Robert de Bruce, lord of Annandale, claimed the crown of Scotland as the son of Isabella, the second daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon, and greatgranddaughter of King David I.; but John de Baliol, grandson of Margaret, the eldest daughter of Earl David, was preferred by the commissioners of Edward I.

Some capital snatches of verse are scattered throughout his novels, the best being "Poll put her arms akimbo" in Snarleyyow, and the "Hunter and the Maid" in Poor Jack.

He could always find another maid and she could go back to the diner.

The maid turned, looking past her, and Katie spun away.

Robin Hood is Hod, the god of the wind, a form of Woden; Maid Marian is Morgen, the dawn-maiden; Friar Tuck is Toki, the spirit of frost and snow."