单词 | dairymaid |
例句 | Velutha curtsied as he had been taught to, his mundu spread like a skirt, like the English dairymaid in “The King’s Breakfast.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days they were all milked by hand, and I loved to watch the dairymaid squirt the white milk into her pail while the cow placidly chewed its cud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1887, the annual report of the Nebraska Dairymen’s Association was bidding a florid goodbye to the “sound dairymaid,” with her “full, rounded arm” and “sweet voice.” Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z What could be more picturesque than a duchess impersonating a dairymaid in straw hat and copious ribbons? The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z We also learn, too briefly, about how dairymaids dominated cheese-making for centuries, to the extent that dairywomen were caretakers of "secret knowledge" passed down from generation to generation. 'Cheese and Culture': Blessed are the cheesemakers 2012-05-16T18:46:03Z Tess Durbeyfield earns her living as a dairymaid before agricultural mechanization, but she channels early strains of what Hardy presciently calls “the ache of modernism.” A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Moore, meanwhile, has us convinced two centuries after the event when he describes a dairymaid's fears, or someone's sleepless night in a cell. Damn His Blood by Peter Moore – review 2013-06-11T10:16:10Z The turning point came — or at least ought to have come — when Jenner discovered that dairymaids were often protected from smallpox because of their exposure to the less-dangerous cowpox. The world’s first anti-vaccination movement spread fears of half-cow babies 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Like many people of that era, he was aware that dairymaids often emerged unscathed from smallpox epidemics. From cows to COVID: The spooky origins of vaccines 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Perhaps most famously, Edward Jenner in 1796 inoculated a healthy 8-year-old boy with cowpox derived from a lesion on the hand of a dairymaid. Opinion | Britain Infected Volunteers With the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the U.S.? 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Nicknamed Jumbo, for a fortnight crowds marvelled at the spectacle, said to be the product of milk from 800 cows and the labour of 200 dairymaids. The tea tycoon who was 'world's best loser' 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Popular accounts usually have Jenner using cowpox to inoculate people after he noticed that dairymaids appeared to be immune to smallpox. How Canadian researchers built a poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Jenner scraped “matter” taken from a cowpox sore on a dairymaid’s hand into the skin of 8-year-old James Phipps, the son of his occasional gardener, and then repeatedly tried to infect him with smallpox. Studies that intentionally infect people with disease-causing bugs are on the rise 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Jesty himself had two dairymaids, who failed to contract the disease even when they had taken care of stricken relatives. From cows to COVID: The spooky origins of vaccines 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z A dairymaid, who had contracted cow-pox from one of her employer’s cows, afforded the matter, and Jenner introduced it into two incisions in the arms of a boy about eight years of age. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z The new production at the Vanity included a trio between the ducal tenor and two subsidiary dairymaids, to be one of whom Dorothy was chosen by the management. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z She has neither a ploughboy's figure, nor," slowly, "a dairymaid's speech. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z Marie Antoinette's dairymaid proclivities at Trianon had rendered it de rigueur to find pleasure in bucolic occupations. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z That the result is not wholly due to skill and care or to the absence of these qualities on the part of the dairymaid may now be taken for granted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He had never again visited that remote Devon village, with its cows and pastures and dairymaids and famous chronicles. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z No food was given him save, perhaps, an occasional hunch of bread surreptitiously conveyed to him beneath the apron of a dairymaid endowed with fellow feeling. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Why, I might as well be a dairymaid of eighteen. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Salvelinus fontinalis, little salmon of the streams, the Angler's dearly beloved brook trout—this is the dairymaid's special delight. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z Moreover—and this I record with diffidence—I saw the one sergeant we have who is not Welsh but Irish inveigle the dairymaid into waltzing round the yard! Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z Great was the mirth of everybody when the Lieutenant produced an enormous Valentine that depicted a peculiarly fat Cupid winking at a dairymaid over a brimming bowl of milk. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He wore a dairymaid's bonnet of pale blue, with torn strings. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z And if the clumsy old dairymaid hadn’t thrown her shoe at me, she wouldn’t have broken the milk-house window. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z From the garden ha-ha, near the rhubarb patch, Polly the dairymaid watched him, gesticulating every now and then with her arms, for she had been sent to call him to dinner. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Where the young lady waiters were dressed as dairymaids. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z "Ay, sir, and I wager this affectation of indifference will not outlast a week's ill luck, and as for woman, why the very dairymaids to-night will kindle a spark in your eyes." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z In a few weeks, Mr Forret's behaviour to his simple dairymaid altered very materially. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z He came back, took a box, and was going out again when he met Polly the dairymaid. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Throughout the world they do extol The fame of our town Ingersoll, The capital of dairyland, To-night it seems like fairy land, The youth and beauty here arrayed, So sweet and neat each dairymaid. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z He felt more than ever convinced that his friend was in love, in love too with some one the very antithesis of the dairymaid. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z In these old days, most noble dukes and earls would fall in love with dairymaids whose gentle ways and manners charmed their hearts. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z It gives him no thought or trouble to be attentive to them, as in his soul he loves them all,—in the abstract,—from the dairymaid to the duchess, always provided they are pretty. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z In one short week the unhappy dairymaid had experienced sharp transitions. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z "The dairymaid does not live at the farm, and this will oblige us to milk the cows one hour earlier in the morning, one hour later in the evening." Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z I have been talking to some real English dairymaids down in the left paddock. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z This was a large barn, which had been carefully swept and levelled for the "light fantastic toes" of some score of ploughmen and dairymaids, not formed exactly after the Chinese fashion. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Yet it was strange and rather depressing to think that English girls could never get any nearer to the M�nad than the evocation of the image of a farouche dairymaid. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They all passed in quietly enough, with the exception of one, which stood lowing at the door, and resisted every effort of the dairymaid to induce her to enter. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom "But how could you turn dairymaid, Dolly?" cried he, half reproachfully. Tony Butler "And a occasional dairymaid!" added Horace, laying a finger to his long nose, "Don't forget the dear, simple, rural creeters!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance Why, he talks as if the dairymaid and all her cows could not serve his turn. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 I would rather be the husband of a simple little dairymaid than that of a George Sand or a Madame de Staël. Her Royal Highness Woman Bessie Trevorrow, the dairymaid, ripe as a pippin, came in, turning down the sleeves of a bird's-eye print dress over forearms that made Jenny gasp. Carnival Mother always gets some milk from the dairymaid about this time. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. My uncle drinks the whey here, as I do ever since I understood it was brought to his bedside every morning at six, by a very pretty dairymaid. In the Border Country Had he been a young man he might have walked safely and speedily under the guidance of some frugal swain or tripping dairymaid returning from market. Old Roads and New Roads Bless me! oysters, cranberries, succotash, canvasback ducks, wild turkeys, pumpkin pie, dairymaids ladies, wives the equals of their husbands! Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Servants have as little need of French verbs and hieroglyphics as the ploughboy or the dairymaid. The Curse of Education The whole of this family, except Sarah Wynne, one of the dairymaids, had gone through the Small Pox. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox In winter, the low-lying lands are seldom visited by the peasantry, except when the dairymaid drives the cattle to and fro, or the hedger trims the undergrowth along the ditches. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The dairymaid paid a great many visits to the dairy, and other maids might be seen hurrying in all directions. What the Blackbird said A story in four chirps It is characteristic of a cook, a dairymaid, a housemaid, a field-hand, to have red arms, and it is probably from this association that they have fallen into such extreme disrepute. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The dairymaid is busy milking, and won't see us, and I don't suppose it matters if she does. The Manor House School She was then a dairymaid, and the Cow Pox broke out among the cows. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox For the kind of person the Princess had changed into was a blowzy, frowzy dairymaid, with oily black hair and shining red cheeks, and little black eyes like the currant eyes in gingerbread pigs. Oswald Bastable and Others As in that case of the dairymaids which we began with? Imaginary Interviews She spoke with the straight, sincere interest of a dairymaid listening to the self-told heroisms of a stable boy. The Readjustment I wonder if the dairymaid noticed us go into the barn. The Manor House School The family consisted of a man servant, two dairymaids, and a servant boy, who, with the Farmer himself, were twice a day employed in milking the cattle. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox Although she was a silly dairymaid she had the sense to see that. Oswald Bastable and Others I haven't come back to cry over spilt milk, like a naughty dairymaid who trips and falls on the cellar steps. Otherwise Phyllis The dairymaids come with their stools to milk their soft-eyed friends, and on blazing hot summer evenings they all sit closely huddled round the fires together. Through Finland in Carts It is the duty of the dairymaid and her assistant to turn these cheeses every morning—a work requiring some strength. The Toilers of the Field But the other dairymaid, Sarah Wynne, who never had the Small Pox, did not escape in so easy a manner. An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox He went and waited under the Princess's window, for he had grown clever enough to know that the Princess, since she was now a dairymaid, would be awake betimes. Oswald Bastable and Others Betty, our dairymaid, is to throw gravel up at the window at four o’clock. Girls of the Forest Not one, from the dairymaid to the duchess! Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden He milks till five or half-past, carries the yokes to the dairy, and draws water for the dairymaid, or perhaps chops up some wood for her fire to scald the milk. The Toilers of the Field Amongst others may be seen a farmer and his wife, a cook, with a large goose that she is about to kill, and a dairymaid, with a miniature cow in her arms. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts The dairymaid Princess called for cold pork and cheese and beer, and, having had quite enough of all three, she went to bed in the Princess's green and white bedroom. Oswald Bastable and Others The woman was regnant The woman is always regnant, whether she be queen or dairymaid, but the barrier between himself and her was built of the old hurdles of low birth and iron fortune. Despair's Last Journey My father is an old shepherd and my mother a dairymaid. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children A few after several years learn the art and mystery of butter and cheese, and become dairymaids; and then, if they are clever, earn good wages—indeed, fabulous prices are asked by them. The Toilers of the Field She did not think it necessary for the little goat-herds, and dairymaids, and foresters, and charcoal-burners, and sennerins, and carpenters, and cobblers, to study the exact sciences or draw casts from the antique. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida And sure enough the green silk curtains were presently drawn back, and the drowsy, blowzy, frowzy face of the dairymaid looked out. Oswald Bastable and Others Cousin Amelia suggested my towels were too coarse: "they had rubbed a colour into my cheeks like a dairymaid's." Kate Coventry An Autobiography The dairymaid in her excitement left the cows untied, and one of them broke the leg of a colt. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power This rise to be maid-servant, or to be dairymaid, is the bright side of the girl's career. The Toilers of the Field An old writer on husbandry says, "the dairymaid should always be up in the morning between three or four o'clock." Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King “Is it the cows now, that you’ve got new, or is it the dairymaid?” White Lilac; or the Queen of the May If thou dost not come up quickly, we shall conclude that thou art in love with one of Sir Roger’s dairymaids. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' A dairymaid came to ask if the young ladies76 would be waiting for a drink of the new milk. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls After ending his apprenticeship and working for a short time as a journeyman, he married a buxom dairymaid, with whom he had been in love for seven years. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money How cruel dairymaids must be, to whip such nice stuff as cream. The Lady Paramount “Just now, I met Benson, and says he: ‘You’re losing your dairymaid by what I hear, and I can but wish you as good a one.’” White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Now Moll had been dairymaid up at the Hall years ago, before her marriage, and My Lady knew of old that Moll's butter was as sweet as her looks were sour. A Book of Quaker Saints He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail!" and "Good luck!" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know We state nothing and we can make the dairymaid as suggestive as we like. Plays of Near & Far The police barrack at Ballinascarthy was once a grogshop, given by the landlord to a dairymaid who had been long in his service. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. She wanted a second dairymaid, and was greatly pleased with Lilac’s appearance and neat dress. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May "Oh! there's handsome he is!" said Magw, the dairymaid, with a sigh; and Morva echoed the sentiment, though she did not give it utterance. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead "Do you milk?" he asked, charmed by the mental picture of so noble a dairymaid. The Miller Of Old Church The child really looked very pretty, though rather like a little dairymaid dressed up for fun, and her long gloves slipped far enough from the shoulders to show some splendidly red arms. Great Possessions "There aren't many ladies in this county wouldn't give me a kiss if I wanted it, much less a little dairymaid like you." The Story of Bawn Lilac looked eagerly up at him also, for she had a faint hope that he might somehow know that she was dairymaid, and would tell them so. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May "A Respectable woman wants situation as dairymaid, laundress, or fowl." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917 He manages the farm, sells the crops, tasks the ploughmen, overlooks the shepherd, scolds the dairymaid, bullies the servants, and regulates all that come near him. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters At this juncture, Molly Jones, forgetting her own past, was injudicious enough to engage a fresh coloured country girl—who was scarcely twenty—as dairymaid, for whom Sir William quickly conceived an amorous regard. Strange Pages from Family Papers My grandfather made no objection when he heard of the plan, only saying something with a laugh about fine ladies liking to play dairymaids. The Story of Bawn The poor dairymaid had died in the night, and another servant, one of the men, was sickening. Elster's Folly The dairymaid was standing over a kettle of water that was heating on the fire; the other maid stood near her. Secret Bread I was not exactly discouraged, but I certainly began to grow anxious as the time approached when I should need my dairymaid, and need her badly. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm I wondered if the ghost of Marie Antoinette ever revisited the Trianon or flitted up and down the wooden steps of the miniature farm where she had played at being a dairymaid? Fanny Goes to War It was very homely and friendly and Christian; and I saw my man James with his arm around one of the dairymaids—which is pretty Christian too, I think. Oddsfish! The dairymaid; a stout girl, who has never had a day's illness before. Elster's Folly She knew that women can inveigle men; but in the practice of it I am very sure that her dairymaid could have given her lessons. Corporal Sam and Other Stories Of course I had trouble in getting a dairymaid. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm "Fine washing too!" said the dairymaid, "And his hair's all lugs." Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men "It doesn't matter if her father was a duke and her mother a dairymaid," said Kathleen with emphasis. The Rebel of the School In earlier times the mother of a family served as cook, housemaid, laundress, spinner, weaver, seamstress, dairymaid, nurse, and general caretaker. Vocational Guidance for Girls Milly, who, you are to recollect, was only in process of reformation, and still retained something of the Derbyshire dairymaid, gave me a little clandestine pinch on the arm just as he made his appearance. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh It is now time to get at the dairy-house, since the dairy and the dairymaid are both in evidence. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm I noticed two self-binders and a hay loader and I beheld for the first time in Japan a dairymaid and collies—one was of a useless show type. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Losing no time in carrying my intentions into effect, I crept into the dairy as soon as the dairymaid had brought in the afternoon's milking. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill She was a dairymaid in Strathconon with whom he had an agreement to supply him with a stone of cheese for every horn of milk given by each cow per day. From John O'Groats to Land's End "Yes," he would say, genially, to an enquiring farmer, "I have four ploughmen and two dairymaids!" Mount Music They say, and there is ocular evidence of the fact, that a donkey and a little boy or girl to drive him to the Creamery now do the work of dairymaids and farm hands. Ireland Since Parnell Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. The Amateur Poacher Then Patience appeared on the eminence. 153She was a dairymaid, and she could not understand the philosophy prevalent in the roseate environs of Castle Bunthorne. Leonora Unfortunately for him the dairymaid was a poetess, and she gave vent to her sorrow in verse, in which it may be assumed the tutor came in for much abuse. From John O'Groats to Land's End How can you think that dairymaid could be scared? The Youth of the Great Elector The dairymaid belonged to their parish, and so afforded them another ground of triumph over their rivals. Fated to Be Free The better class of housekeepers, and those professional dairymaids who superintend the making of superior cheese, are generally more or less nearly related to the families of tenant-farmers. Hodge and His Masters The dairymaid and her costume were pretty in a familiar way which it could appreciate. Leonora The dairymaid vowed to be even with the tutor, and threatened to desecrate his grave. From John O'Groats to Land's End Even now it is said that in remote parts of England the dairymaid flies to it as a resource on the days when she churns her butter. Among the Trees at Elmridge If I have occasion to change the dairymaid, and the new one sends me up bad butter, I tell her of it. Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it New duties were opened to me as soon as I could wear my shoes, and by the time Georgia was out again, I was a busy little dairymaid, and quite at home in the corrals. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate It's no more trouble to make up to a duchess than a dairymaid. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." They therefore waited until Brumle-knute was invited by the dairymaid to sit down to dinner. Boyhood in Norway Our dairymaid here is the farmer's second daughter. The Woman in White Now—for womanhood is weak—we are content to hear our dairymaid praised for her beautiful butter by our acquaintance, and Tom extolled for his care of the chickens. Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it When you see one of your labourers, you don't care who his father was, or which dairymaid his uncle ought to have married, if he had wanted to get a certain cottage. The Market-Place Her people had been well-to-do yeomen for centuries, but she was only a dairymaid.' A Pair of Blue Eyes "All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid." Tess of the d'Urbervilles "The dairymaid's memory may be better than her mother's," I said. The Woman in White Every countryman and dairymaid knows that the coats of the fourth stomach of the calf will curdle milk, and what particular mushroom is a safe and nutritious diet. Excursions A trick, perhaps, since anybody with strong lungs—dairymaid or cowboy—could shriek. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Did not the dairymaids find the butter ready churned, and the cows milked by these kind assistants? English Villages I never see that nice girl without more and more regretting his precipitancy in throwing himself away upon a dairymaid, or whatever she may be. Tess of the d'Urbervilles He returned, and announced that the dairymaid was then at the farm. The Woman in White She cannot understand why she should not talk to any farmer's man or dairymaid she happens to meet! There & Back So he lived well and was stuffed and crammed with everything that was good, till one day the dairymaid came to give him still more food. East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon I shouldn't a bit mind being dairymaid or housemaid. Mary Marston "I've been told that it goes up into their horns at such times," said a dairymaid. Tess of the d'Urbervilles The only visitor was our dairymaid, who, as I told you, is one of Mr. Todd's daughters, and the only conversation was the usual gossip about local affairs. The Woman in White She desired it with old Betty, sir Wilton's dairymaid, just as much as with Mr. Lestrange, sir Wilton's heir; and everybody showed her favour, for she showed everybody grace. There & Back A dairymaid of these degenerate days might as well wash and deck her dairy in hopes of finding the fairy tester in her shoe. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day The dairymaid wipes her lips with the back of her hand. Fortitude He followed herding in this way for a time; but one night after he came home, instead of getting "All hail" and "Good luck" from the dairymaid, all were at crying and woe. Celtic Fairy Tales Miss Halcombe showed me, by a look, that she understood, and put the question as soon as the dairymaid returned to us. The Woman in White I had realized all the time that with a well twice the size, and a branch pipe across the yard, the dairymaid would be saved as much as the kitchen-maids in the house. Wanderers Ellen was a stranger among them, and being only a dairymaid was of less account than the other one. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs She was a very common girl with black hair and over-red cheeks, and she was one of the dairymaids from Tregothan Farm. Fortitude There was a cook and a scullery maid, and two lady's maids,—who had to make the dresses,—and two housemaids and a dairymaid. The Eustace Diamonds Some young fellows in this predicament bestow their young affections upon Dolly, the dairymaid, or cast the eyes of tenderness upon Molly, the blacksmith's daughter. The History of Pendennis But Ragnhild and the dairymaid both lent a hand; all youth and energy they were. Wanderers The herdsmen and dairymaids no sooner uttered the first notes of this magic song, than a deep and breathing stillness pervaded the crowd. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons The men were splitting wood, and the dairymaids were milking the cows. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils "Ah!" said George, with a rude little laugh, "youth is always enthusiastic, especially when the object is of the dairymaid cut." Dawn But woe betide the silly dairymaids, For I shall fleet their cream-bowls night by night. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Every one of us on the place knew there was trouble between them, and Ragnhild and the dairymaid were always talking about it. Wanderers Are you a good cook? seamstress? dairymaid?"—this to the women, while the men would be questioned as to their line of work: "Can you plow? Thirty Years a Slave Presently smoke rose from the chimney and then the dairymaids, the shepherd boy, and the men squatted upon a flat rock and ate their supper. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Occasionally when the dairymaid churned for a long time without making butter, she would stir the cream with a twig of mountain ash, and beat the cow with another, thus breaking the witch's spell. The Folk-lore of Plants The dairymaid and the cook received sharp words, which, fortunately for themselves, they were powerful enough to return with interest. The Children's Pilgrimage If thou dost not come up quickly, we shall conclude that thou art in love with one of Sir ROGER'S dairymaids. The Coverley Papers They sent him out a new book-keeper, a tender young thing with a dairymaid complexion and the notion that he’d got the indigestion. Travels in West Africa The men were going home the next day, so the dairymaids gave them little commissions and bade them take greetings to their friends in the village. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils In my twentieth year, in a moment of youthful ardour, I kissed Betty Coy, our dairymaid, over the cheese- press, and was as immediately and as utterly confounded as she was. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Whatever few words she said to cook, dairymaid, and message-boy, they once more obeyed her and showed her respect. The Children's Pilgrimage I have an honest dairymaid who crosses their hands with a piece of silver every summer, and never fails being promised the handsomest young fellow in the parish for her pains. The Coverley Papers The family consisted of a man servant, two dairymaids, and a servant boy, who, with the farmer himself, were twice a day employed in milking the cattle. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) It was as light as day, and the dairymaids were busy with their needle-work. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils When he cried, Did I mean to disgrace my name? and I replied, No, but on the contrary I had been wishful to redeem it—"How, you fool," said he, "by marrying a dairymaid?" The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The cook, who liked them and pitied them, supplied them with plenty of cakes and apples, and the dairymaid treated Maurice to more than one delicious drink of cream. The Children's Pilgrimage Such as young fellows pretend to dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue The whole of this family, except Sarah Wynne, one of the dairymaids, had gone through the smallpox. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) As soon as Clement had finished, the eldest of the dairymaids announced that he should have the muffler. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils For HER face was flushed, and quite uncooled by powder—'like a dairymaid's—she will get so coarse if she lives in the country always!' God's Good Man Now the dairymaid, who happened to be a Methodist, stood near. The Children's Pilgrimage Of a complexion much lighter than the girl's, she still possessed a coarse comeliness, which pointed back to the dairymaid type of damsel. The Paying Guest She was then a dairymaid, and the cow-pox broke out among the cows. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Aha, Clement!" winked the dairymaid, "it appears as if the tiny folk were listening to us. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Beyond is her daughter, Lucille, less fair than the mother, a healthy girl of the dairymaid type. Imperial Purple Very glum she looked as she stepped quickly here and there, so much so that the dairymaid and the errand-boy chaffed her for her dull demeanor. The Children's Pilgrimage So much the better if he flirts and drinks milk with a dairymaid. Joseph II. and His Court But the other dairymaid, Sarah Wynne, who never had the smallpox, did not escape in so easy a manner. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds. The Chronicles of Clovis She went away with her dairymaids, driving her cattle down the roads. Now It Can Be Told Besides she presides over her milk pail like a duchess playing dairymaid. Our American Cousin If I had been a prince, and you a dairymaid, I’d have stood by you in the face of the world!’ A Changed Man; and other tales The farmer she was with wished to keep her on as dairymaid through the winter, but she was afraid the work would be too heavy for her. The Great Hunger But with the countess as with the dairymaid, it must depend on the woman herself. Framley Parsonage No dairymaid could enjoy her zither more, then we enjoyed our frogs. My Life and My Efforts I came across a dairymaid and farm hand discussing it stolidly with very downcast faces. Villa Rubein, and other stories He opened his window quietly, intending to throw in his bass with startling effect, when, to his surprise, he found the disputants were his dairymaid and Jael Dence. Put Yourself in His Place Then perhaps I may find a cottar's croft somewhere and settle down and marry a dairymaid. The Great Hunger And the second was a feeling of anger at the old man for comparing her lot to that of a dairymaid. Framley Parsonage She sent to Essex for a dairymaid, and set her to churn milk into butter, coram populo, at a certain hour every morning. A Simpleton Four bare-legged dairymaids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand, ran about with frantic gestures, and uttering loud exclamations of surprise, grief, and resentment. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since "Not without a month's warning, or a month's wage, sir, it you please," said the dairymaid, pertly. Put Yourself in His Place The dairymaid does the same with the milk, the cream, and the fresh butter, on condition that the best of the produce is reserved for us. Letters of Two Brides I will dress as a dairymaid, and have a little pail to carry milk in. An Unsocial Socialist There would be a housekeeper or a dairymaid to show him over the place. Selected Stories of Bret Harte Thus it is certain, that had Edward enjoyed such an opportunity of conversing with Miss Stubbs, Aunt Rachel's precaution would have been unnecessary, for he would as soon have fallen in love with the dairymaid. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The dairymaid heard the noise, got the churn between her knees, and tumbled over it, spilling all the cream; and yet she jumped up, and gave chase to Tom. The Water-Babies |
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