| 单词 | maid |
| 例句 | He told Eurykleia: “Bring me brimstone and a brazier—medicinal fumes to purify my hall. Then tell Penelope to come, and bring her maids. All servants round the house must be called in.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew up in Baltimore and had never married but didn’t look or act like any other old maid in town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was suddenly a crash and a clatter of crockery which could only have meant that the tray the maid was carrying had fallen out of her hands. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he ever love a maid or have a wedding! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘Are you the new serving maid? Have you brought me my thread?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Her father owned the stables, and they could afford piano lessons, and they had a maid but no cook. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t be alarmed. I’m not one of the agreeable sort. Nobody will want me, and it’s a mercy, for there should always be one old maid in a family.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to Mrs. Van Hopper, uncertain, rather self-conscious, like a maid who has handed in her notice through a friend. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Down a ways one of the maids had draped her underclothes on the wall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “One of Capricorn's maids. She's helped me a couple of times before.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Looking at the white uniform, Lupita asked, “Are you a maid in a hotel here?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She believed in decency, she was nice to the Jewish maid, or nice enough, nicer than she needed to be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “A northern maid and a wildling warrior, bound together by the Lord of Light.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her maids carried them upstairs and demure Penelope retired with great contentment in her heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It resembled some of the other throw-away things she brought home from the discarded piles outside white ladies' houses where she cleaned or the hotel where she worked as a maid. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She'd turned it on low, though, so the maid wouldn't hear it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Good to know. Three little maids from school are we. . .” sang Adina. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew the maid wouldn't hear me because she had only one eardrum. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Aina, the cook, was delighted to discover another of the Benin nation among the visiting maids, both of them being marked on the face with the scars of their kingdom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "Waiting won't make the maid any prettier. Kiss her and be done with it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We come from Ensenada. I have worked there as a maid in a hotel, helping my mother.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Her parents looked at each other, but it was the maid who answered the doctor's question. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Three excruciatingly long, hot nights later, with still no word from Yule May or any other maids, Stuart comes over, straight from his meeting on the coast. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The only other maid I see often enough is Elizabeth’s maid, Aibileen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “The boys’ cottage is located in the old maids’ quarters, which is farther from the neighbors.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z So nice to give a maid a copy of Walden for Christmas rather than that dreary envelope, and to be able to say so to her friends. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sew it with gold thread,” she instructed her maid. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The maid robot spooned porridge on the tablecloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Wang Lung kept his own counsel, therefore, only listening here and there in the tea shop when maids were spoken of, or men prosperous in the town who had daughters for marriage. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Like almost all women in our community, my grandmother was a maid in a white woman’s kitchen or at the Marion Hotel. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You’ll be staying in my room,” the maid said to her, grasping one handle of Ana’s trunk and helping Ash to lift it off the footboard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “A squadron commander’s wife needs a maid.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now everyone is looking at me, including the maid, a different one from the door, as she hands me a glass of tea. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “It might be if it was kept nice, but the maids are lazy, and I don’t know how to make them mind. It worries me though.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A maid peeks out of the pantry into the hall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Marriage and childbirth strengthen the swordswoman, who is not a maid like Joan of Arc. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The old nurse Eurycleia and her maids were summoned to cleanse the place and restore all to order. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the hall the maid had just opened the door, and Arthur was stepping quickly in. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z So one could tell the princess from the maids. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That old laundry maid, Pila, was the strangest maid we had ever had, for it seemed everything that could go wrong with her had gone wrong. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mama Tataba bent over the table in our mother’s large white apron, which made her look counterfeit and comic, as though acting the role of maid in a play. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One unfortunate maid lost her head and lost his place in Tuckwell’s Pre-Tractarian Oxford, and Dr. Finch shook a broom at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Governor gave a short nod to the maid standing at the door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Septa Scolera echoed, “and you must feel so much lighter now, clean and innocent as a maid on the morning of her wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We could take any of the maids, or cook.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This showed her great modesty and Wang Lung was pleased and said to himself that she was a proper maid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I waited for the maid to walk past us. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z All her maids spied on her, she was certain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z You walk down the aisle with the maid of honor. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z They pulled the maids from their beds and locked them in a room where an armed man stood guard. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right, Jo. Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands,” said Mrs. March decidedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid gave a howl of anguish and clasped her hands over her face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while, the new maid, Lorena, comes around with a tray of lemonades or clean ashtrays. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Well. That is impressive. But after her, you really think other maids will talk to you? What if the employers find out?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Santita Jackson, ebullient in a black dress with a plunging neckline, was my maid of honor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After dabbing perfume around her neck, Ma yells to our maid to look after me and leaves for the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thank my God I am a maid and not a man who must hunt with a bow. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z To everything the maid was acquiescent, but reluctant and shy as was proper and correct for her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “You will not do that to him. You will cut his claws instead, the way my finger- and toenails are cut by my maid, straight across so they have no sharp points.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But what I do know is, the responsibility of the project lays on my shoulders and I see it in their hardworking, lined faces, how much the maids want this book to be published. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A‘chain of golden hands. For hands of gold are always gold, but a woman’s hands are warm. “Are you a maid, Penny?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "You blush red as a maid, Theon. A question was asked. Is it the gold price you paid, or the iron?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My mom, same as she’d done with her flat and with her maid’s uniforms, found the cracks in the system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She say to Sofia, All your children so dean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had learned something more from hearing her maid’s screams. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He found himself foaming and frothing at the mouth as he skittered around frantically trying to find water while one of the maids ran down the hall shrieking, “Mad mouse! Mad mouse!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Behind her was a covey of maids, all craning their necks to see what was inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mosca gave Scipio a look of utter contempt: “They probably suspected the maid, or the cook, or another of your thousands of servants.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She moved in and bought a bunch of maid’s overalls to wear. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When my mother and I are together at the market in Otavalo—me dressed in my regular clothes, and her in poor indigenous clothes—people assume I’m a mestiza girl with her maid. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Night fell and two maids came in to draw the curtains and light the lamps. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet their maid gone home hours ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A man with monogrammed shirts, a maid, a mansion, and all he wanted was to finger her belly button. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No one came near me in those days; the maids’ hands shook when they served my food, which only made me madder. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not sipped from it since one of the maids brought it in on a silver tray. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I mean, who is there? Pascagoula? If I talk to her, Mama will find out. I’m not the one who knows the other maids.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The maid bent over him and looked into his eyes. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Well, you can’t go in your maid’s dress. We'll have to find something for you. Wait here,” she commanded, and went back into the dining room. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Might a just been the other maids, though, buying for they friends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Forgive me for keeping you waiting,” he said, looking a little surprised, as the maid had done, to see so many of us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They might have maids but they answer doors themselves and say, One moment, please, and give you sixpence. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I am fair, and I am honest. A maid no more, but your honorable wife,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Somehow she had gotten the notion that a dwarf lord- ling would be the perfect consort for her laughter Lollys, a large, soft, dim-witted girl who rumor said was still a maid at thirty-and-three. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Yule May, Miss Hilly’s maid, setting in front a me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The maid let out a scream that must have been heard by ships far out in the English Channel, and she dropped the shoes and ran like the wind down the corridor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They taught her how to dress up in a pair of maid’s overalls to move around the city without being questioned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Queen spoke so sharply that the maid was quite taken aback. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan and a serving maid whisked away the tablecloth and broken glass. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The couple bought a house on Sedgewick Road, hired a maid, joined the country club; Mrs. Richardson’s grandmother found a stable for her horse, Jackson, and became a member of the Flowerpot Garden Club. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The maid they call Resa,” she said, her heart beating in her mouth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid's apartment on fourth floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning she did not get up, and when the maid brought in the breakfast tray she refused to have her open the curtains. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually all the children slept on the second floor, and a maid, and later a governess, Dorus and Anna putting up walls to divide already small rooms into smaller ones. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Moreover, she was a goodly maid, fair enough, but not too fair so as to be vain over it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When the maids trod in the puddles on the floor, they made a slashing noise, and from the next room there was whispering mixed with the secret noise of silk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Siddhartha stood still at the entrance to the grove and watched the procession, the men servants, the maids and the baskets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the friendliest and best-paying maid service I have encountered—$6.65 an hour, though as a punishment this will drop to $6 for two weeks if I fail to show up for a day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We were talking about maids and the fact that you re supposed to refer to them as “domestic help” these days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The castle maids and guards kept their distance from Roza and her ferocious new companion. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She’ll be there in firelight before a column, with her maids in shadow, spinning a wool dyed richly as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmers and maids, cooks and handymen, carpenters and all the children in town, made regular pilgrimages to the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My forlorn thought flows variable as her song, wondering: shall I stay beside my son and guard my own things here, my maids, my hall, to honor my lord’s bed and the common talk? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a colored person there, except for the maid in the kitchen who was putting sandwiches on a table. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So her father says to me to go up and fetch down the gown the maid left out on the bed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When she was younger, she’d supposed it had belonged to a maid, but at some point she came to understand that it had been for Isagol’s consorts, paramours, whatever you chose to call them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Once the maid moved on, Cora returned to her tiny range of activities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But then I remembered how Chucha used to say girls who keep seashells die old maids, and I took it back to Tía Mari and said, Keep this for me until I’m married. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In the dark chamber there was a coming and going of maids. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The maids will come in the morning to scrub down everything with soap, but I do my part anyway. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say she gone find another maid. But who gone work for that lady? Some nappy-headed country maid already living out there, won’t know squat about serving from the left, clearing from the right.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was pretty funny the way it happened, but my mother, who was maid of honor, was not amused. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look, I did my best. We don’t all have maids to do our ironing.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z She had kept her maid’s job and was saving money to repay the moneylender. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Meggie went over to the window, rested her forehead on the pane, and looked down at the garden, where a couple of Capricorn's maids were busy tying up tomato plants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Seward might be attended by nurses, doctors, servants, maids, family members, and guards. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The doctor to see you, sir,” and the maid beckoned as she spoke. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s easier than listening to Hilly complain about sharing a toilet with the maid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And the maid in the attic stretched her phantom limbs and began to plot. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Sides stealing, worse thing you’n do for your career as a maid is have a smart mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was not a lily maid of Astolat they saw, but a middle-aged woman whose hands, in stiff-looking gloves, grasped a pair of beads obediently. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not a man you'd expect to speak of maids and wedding nights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Quite often the big loud women came shouting into the house, “Now when you sell this one, I’d like to buy her to be my maid.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Uniformed maids entered rooms carrying tea services on silver trays. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All kinds of professions now crowded in together, foundry workers and lawyers, maids and carpenters, doctors and hoodlums, but most people, this being 1932, were unemployed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Alyce asked the kitchen maid skinning a pig in the manor yard, the laundress boiling great kettles of goose fat for soap, the carpenters fashioning a coffin for Old Ned, who had died that morning. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the maids liked Chucha because they all thought she was kind of below them, being so black and Haitian and all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I got a real knack for arranging flowers, I mean, everybody back in Sugar Ditch said so, even my maid said so, right after she said I’m the worst cook she’s ever laid eyes on.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So she described it, sitting in her chamber among her maids—while her true lord was eating. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A very young maid opened the door to us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I saw the boys, but I didn’t know which — I was walking eyes down, as a modest maid should. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Only once in a while, on the soap operas, is there an indi'gena, and she’s usually a fat, middle-aged maid who never speaks except for yes, senora. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sí, go somewhere where nobody will know your cards are forged. I’ll give you your wages as soon as you get out of my maid’s uniform. That must remain here.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I recognized the short, squat, mustached woman in the black uniform as the night maid who ironed day dresses and party frocks in a crowded cubicle on our floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Burt said yes and he smild and that maid me feel good. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The maids would want to come and do the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Miss Skeeter nod, say, “I can handle Hilly. This doesn’t implicate you, or the other maids, or the book at all.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z From another rickshaw, a young maid jumped out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For that I works for many famblies as a maid and raise up lots of white children for their mamas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He said to himself that he would wait, thinking it would pass, but meanwhile he thought of the pretty pale young maid more than he himself would believe he did. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She giggle at this a second and I suck in my breath at the word maid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She should have tried to find a job in the factory, or as a maid for one of the rich families outside the North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “My mom’s on the hunt for kitchen maids,” Fizz tells me, ripping open a bag of chips. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The young maid always looks at the barrel Dede points to as if it were an obscure object whose use is beyond her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid gave him a shovelful of coals. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Alice called down to the front desk and asked them to ignore our maid service for now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But the little maid still clung to Wang Lung’s feet, only now she ceased her weeping and lay listening to what took place. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z You had to have a maid for bait, and, when the Unicom perceived her alone, he would immediately come to lay his horn in her lap. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “She means to use her for a personal maid.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Celia tries to smile, says, “This is my first time hiring a maid.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z ‘Now listen here, young lady, how on earth did you get into this room?’ the maid shouted furiously. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘First I had a horrid nightmare, then the maid dropped my breakfast and now I’ve got a giant on the piano.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the hall at the maid’s closet, of course, getting more supplies. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Here’s how it worked: a maid needing to get across town to her white employer’s home would walk to the morning station nearest her home and wait for a ride. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “With this maid’s help, we just caught eight ogres. Six knights never did that before.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Twice Miss Hilly come in the kitchen and call her maid, Ernestine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z ‘Try not to tumble off the horse. If you do, best waddle back to Pentos. Our shy maid will not wait for man nor dwarf.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The maid Fiona had a key but no one else had access to the house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And most of the other sixth graders never lost part of their pay since they had full-time maids to do the chores instead of a cleaning lady only twice a week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “That reminds me so much of my maid growing up.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This time she had another maid with her, a stocky woman with a red face and red hands who was obviously not afraid of Meggie’s powers of witchcraft. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His mother walked in wearing her motel maid’s uniform. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Her only outings were her weekly trips to Sunday mass at the Church of Saint Sebastian, which was two blocks from her house, whence she was conveyed in a wheelchair by Ferula and the maid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Was that why Mrs. Caruthers didn’t like having a colored maid, because she wanted the white maid she’d had once upon a time? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I loved a maid as white as winter, with moonglow in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dustfinger had often entertained the maids as they hoed the beds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Would God the Father allow His only Son to mix with this crowd of cotton pickers and maids, washerwomen and handymen? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I rushed out and found her mother's maid and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Next, Mr. Cantor and I delivered the orchid corsages to the bride and her maid of honor. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The maid in the front of the bus rises up at the same time I do, and we get off the bus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For here he had seen maids roasting innumerable small squabs, each stuffed with fragrant dressing and wrapped in bacon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Who ever heard of a married lady wanting to pretend she was still an old maid—even to having a room to herself? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After a while he heard the maids carry Felicia away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This sister had in her housing project apartment about fifteen of the maids, cooks, chauffeurs and house men who worked for the Hartford-area white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Draper's maid of honor was to be her daughter, Mrs. Potter. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “You need a maid for bait,” they told him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They asked the maid what happened and she asked her son and the kid totally snitched. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She had learned to cook some of her fancy dishes when she worked as a maid in white ladies’ kitchens on Park Hill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Master Gawaine,” cried the maid he had caught hold of, whose name was Meg. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The little princesses who were mistaken for maids, and the long-lost children mistaken for waifs, became more real to me than our house, our mother, our school or Mr. Freeman. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that belief in God was not something he was just tossing out the way the maids at Maer tossed out the dirty water. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no use telling them about the nastiness of rich people and their maids. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If you go to the doctor’s house and the maid sees you’re from the lower classes she tells you go to the Dispensary where you belong. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I spot a flock a maids in they uniforms walking by my house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I don’t know what he thought, that a maid should know how to shoe a horse.5 He may have been startled. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I guess she didn’t expect the maid to be so good at math. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every time she yells at me or hits me or reminds me of my place as a lowly longa maid, she’s watering the seed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just don’t let them make you the maid.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The maid nodded eagerly as she left the room, the bank bundled in her apron and tucked under her arm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z His first customers were the maids from around the neighborhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As I turn, I catch the maid staring at me from the door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She heard Miss Bates’s voice, something was to be done in a hurry; the maid looked frightened and awkward; hoped she would be pleased to wait a moment, and then ushered her in too soon. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Quito is a big, beautiful city, so much prettier than those boondocks where you live now. And my daughter needs a maid desperately. She’s an angel. She’ll treat you well.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the only help my mother had was a succession of untrained maids, mostly girls from the country.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma cut down a few give-aways that had been traded to her by white women’s maids and sat long nights in the dining room sewing jumpers and skirts for me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruth might have been the maid of honor, but Margot was a bridesmaid. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s good to know! I heard Percy Jackson turned you into a brainwashed scullery maid. What did he rename you...Betty?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She had hardly settled on it when one of her maids came soft-footedly across the marble tiles to her side. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Indeed, the maids had been perfectly satisfactory employees and - I may as well say this since the Jewish issue has become so sensitive of late - my every instinct opposed the idea of their dismissal. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z That night six maids in the book call my house asking has anybody said anything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “We are in the tower,” said the maid. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Would he see Miss Lavinia—or only the fat cook, the scullery maids, Aunt Best, or the stable men? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For the maid was standing there, rubbing her hands down the sides of her dress. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe your maid left it that way when she cleaned?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The Senator’s grin deflates and he looks back at the maid to collect these mundane drinks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Can a young maid’s wits be as mortal as an old man’s life?” cried Laertes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Did you know when you were a girl, growing up, that one day you’d be a maid?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hearing your maid’s a thief is like hearing your kid’s teacher’s a twiddler. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "The maid said she was not at home," the short one with a broad face says in a testy voice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Indeed, milady, she doesn’t eat that I know of,” offers the maid. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was the maid’s room off the kitchen, and it was tiny, with one narrow window and a bathroom that doubled as a closet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Witchery, you can be sure. She and that servant—that base laundry maid—are surely conspiring in some evil,” growls Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had been a headwaiter and she had worked as maid in the same hotel and they had saved their money to buy this place. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The door opened and in stepped the funny-talking Dutch maid of Lady Seymour. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z So might Artemis or golden Aphrodite have descended; and maids drew to the hearth her own smooth chair inlaid with silver whorls and ivory. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s that she Miss Hilly Holbrook’s maid, and anything having to do with that name make me nervous. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Attendants poured water over their fingers, while the maids piled baskets full of brown loaves near at hand, and houseboys brimmed the bowls with wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some. Along with mothers and grandmothers, widows and maids ... would you condemn them all to die, my lord?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Knights defend the weak and protect the innocent, they say. And I am the fairest maid in all Volantis.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That caught me off-guard because the play did have a cafeteria lady, and that was close to being a maid. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The watch went into the maw of the vacuum cleaner with a distressing clank that the maid did not even seem to hear. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Scullery maid, that was one thing I would never be. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Are you all right, ma’am?’ the maid was saying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A maid scrubbed the floor with a big brush. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As I stood without moving, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the passage—she had her back towards me, so did not see me—and go into the room where Lucy lay. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Your maid, Madame, did she recognize this handkerchief when we showed it to her this morning?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother’s maid came every day—unless she’d been scared off by the giants. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But a maid’s uniform has the opposite effect. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She summoned the frightened maids and bade them give the stranger the oil so that he could cleanse himself and find for him a mantle and a tunic. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Shall I take her away now, ma’am?’ the maid said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked anxiously down, but none of the maids had noticed anything. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Ophie did as she was told, dropping it in the pocket of the maid’s uniform she still wore, and walked behind Aunt Rose, out the back door that led to the small rear yard. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Gawaine hurried off, as soon as the instructions had been read and the picture digested, to fetch the kitchen maid without delay. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know any other maids who might be interested?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She did not know then, and never found out, that Corinthians was Miss Graham’s maid. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The surprised look in the young maid's eyes confirmed my suspicion that I had done something I would get punished for if caught, so I added, "Don't tell, Gladys, okay?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Each weekday morning Durham’s white neighborhoods were invaded by an army of black women—all dressed in identical gray-and-white maid’s uniforms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The maid smiled maliciously.“Celia isn’t allowed to see you. Doctor’s orders.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do you explain the evidence of my maid, Monsieur?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at Ash, who was closing the front door, and added, “Unfortunately you are not invited; my aunt already has a lady’s maid and you are not needed.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid, he said, had found him in the bathtub. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Next day he found her in the curving hall of grey marble, lit now by the westering sun, where often she spent the afternoon at games or at the weaving-loom with her maids. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z But the eye of Cuckoo marked it first and she saw the maid slipping at dawn out of his court and she laid hold on the girl and laughed, and her old hawk’s eyes glittered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The ghost still wore a maid’s uniform, and her head tilted as she studied Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At the Bunch of Grapes a maid was basting a roast of beef. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m with an old family” was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks’ cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury that you couldn’t even understand them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In the passageway that connected the maids' room with the rest of the house, Gladys stopped and held open the door. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “The maid tells it true,” declared a stocky man in white and purple, whose cloak was fastened with a pair of crossed bronze keys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The maid brought her a length of cloth, which Roza pressed against her damp cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z At this the maids, all gravely listening, hastened to set out bread and wine before Odysseus, and ah! how ravenously that patient man took food and drink, his long fast at an end. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The other maids had brought a bucket of water and towels, but they didn’t attempt to clean Matt up until Rosa gave them permission. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But I remember it coming up one last time well over a year after the dismissal of the two maids. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “They are for Miss March, the man said. And here’s a note,” put in the maid, holding it to Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We were out in the bedroom with the Mancinis, listening to the news, when there was a knock: the maid announcing that the Mancinis had visitors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She’s twelve years old and works as a maid for mestizos in Quito, about two hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Remembered to see: the starched black and white uniform worn by the maid who opened the door; the Mexican gardeners—their complexions as dark as my own. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the maids I have to worry about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Particularly when we go to Yule — you’ll be coming with us as Ana’s lady’s maid.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was to be a prize of a fair maid and a jerfalcon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t the other one, the maid, why didn’t she say something? The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What you think you gone change with this? What law you want to reform so it say you got to be nice to your maid?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Unlike other children I don’t have to do any chores because our maid does them for us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe someone will want a maid,” she said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Run away to my sister and see if she can find me a maid job with another family that might let me go to school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “He must think I’m his maid or something.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Bertha, our head maid, had sewn a special gown for me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Arete, too, sent maids in waiting after him, one with a laundered great cloak and a tunic, a second balancing the crammed sea chest, a third one bearing loaves and good red wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I have been staying at the Austrian Embassy. My maid is with me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And who are these people whose idea of decorating is matched pictures of mallard ducks in flight and whose house is perfectly characterless and pristine even before the model maid sets to work? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For two seconds, I thought the woman was trying to hire me as her maid. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The maid led the two boys through a dark entrance hall into the courtyard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The maid, Hildegarde Schmidt, I could guess her place in the Armstrong household. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you not fall down the steep bank? ’Tis a far distance to the bottom of the ravine, and—” He stopped suddenly, because one of the maids appeared. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The pink-uniformed maid was filling a row of blue china coffee pitchers from a great, battered kettle on the stove. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Miss Lark’s two maids were rushing wildly about the garden, looking under bushes and up in-to the trees as people do who have lost their most valuable possession. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z A maid opened it and would have slammed the door in my face, except that the mother of the girl was close behind. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I was just calling to see if you had any... word. From any other maids, I mean.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Behind her maids bore a basket full of axeheads, bronze and iron implements for the master’s game. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “She say she too busy trying to get her boys into college next year. “Any other maids that go to your church? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Eleanor's mom was the maid of honor—in a dark green dress, with a white flower in her hair. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z But now that Miss Hilly put her own maid in jail to rot, I wonder what that lady’s going to do to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So she went down from her room into the hall, attended by two maids and holding a veil before her face, looking so lovely her courtiers trembled to see her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one surprise; maids had disappeared “for the Duration,” a new phrase then. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The black businessman and the black maid were undifferentiated by the law that forced them to the rear of the bus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the backseat, pressed against the white-stockinged knees of the maids, the Prime Minister crouches under a blanket. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know one of the maids,” he said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She clomp to the kitchen and get on the phone with Miss Hilly’s third maid in a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I didn’t see him. Your maid let me in. Don’t you want to go?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The maid curtsied once more, went to the heavy drapes, threw them open to reveal a large square window cut into the stone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “I exaggerate, perhaps. The American, Hardman, and the German maid—yes, they have added something to our knowledge. That is to say, they have made the whole business more unintelligible than it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she turned abruptly back towards her carriage, where the maid was busily packing up the cases. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to interview you. About what it’s like to work as a maid.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Goodness, you must begin at once. You’re so pretty, Ash, you can’t expect to be a maid forever. Whom do you wish to marry?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The yells of Sir Meliagrance brought the hurt knights hobbling to the door—the commotion spread—tire-women and serving maids, pages, turf boys, a couple of grooms, all came with excitement to the scene. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On either side, as Graces might have slept, her maids were sleeping. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, it’s more of a question. Doesn’t this Mrs. Gilbert have a maid to walk her dog for her? Oh, wait. I get it. Piper Milly is her maid!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z But mostly, she was a maid, a skivvy and, in her hours off, a crammer of simple facts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I know we haven’t talked in a while but,” she lowers her voice, “I just thought you should know what Hilly’s saying. She’s saying you wrote that book... about the maids.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And if I ain’t fired, then I need to clean that bathroom so Mister Johnny doesn’t think the secret maid is slacking and fire me a second time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Three of the queen’s ladies sat together, attended by their serving maids and a dozen admiring men of the Night’s Watch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We stopped at Bramley, and the bus immediately filled with black women in maid uniforms, returning to work after their day off Sunday visiting their children or husbands or relatives in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He led him to the maid’s room, where his daughters were attempting to help a woman who appeared to be choking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way the war, beginning almost humorously with announcements about maids and days spent at apple- picking, commenced its invasion of the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The nannies and the maids knew, though, Alex was sure of that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In the third, she was seated at a writing table and a maid was handing her what looked like a letter. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I think about how easy I thought it would be, three months ago, to get a dozen maids to talk to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I call one of the maids?” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And he cast about secretly in his mind where he should find a maid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The maid scurried past Meggie again, looking frightened as if any contact might burn her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They saw their mother only when she would come home to feed them dinner, but as usual, she left their care to the maid and stayed by her husband’s side. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Carol, who is playing the maid, starts to giggle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Four or five maids is shopping, all in they uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Michael can ring the front doorbells to keep the maids busy and Malachy and I can throw coal and turf over the walls and fill the pram all around Alphie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The maids moved softly around her, padding to and fro from their ticking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z You’re going to have to do something about it, unless you want all your daughters to be old maids.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Nivea, the latest of our laundry maids, was "black-black": my mother always said it twice to darken the color to full, matching strength. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The other maids, who were not hiding what they were? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z While Mr. Rochester and the other gentlemen directed these alterations, the ladies were running up and down stairs ringing for their maids. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Well, no. I was thinking we wouldn’t tell her. I’ll have to make sure the other maids will agree to keep it secret, too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She appeared in the nursery at the appointed time, having changed out of her maid’s apron and into a clean frock, accompanied by the young servant Jasper. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I’m not doing one of those stupid girl costumes that society is always trying to force on us, like a nurse in a miniskirt or a maid in fishnet stockings.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “I do not keep track of lowly maids! Do you know who I am?” the ghost howled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life as a maid I have a purpose more compelling than trying to meet the aesthetic standards of the New England bourgeoisie. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That is to say, we were obliged to find replacements for the two dismissed Jewish maids, and this Lisa turned out to be one of them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He began to put his glass on a table, and the maid robot managed to slide a coaster under it before it touched the wood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They listened attentively, and did his bidding, bathed and dressed afresh; and all the maids adorned themselves. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Over chair-backs in hall they dropped their mantles and passed in to the polished tubs, where maids poured out warm baths for them, anointed them, and pulled fresh tunics, fleecy cloaks around them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am the maid of honor, Ma. Remember?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z They were raised on a grand scale, living in a lavish home with maids and servants catering to their every whim. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Dr. Viftas entered into the fun, teasing the maid to the delight of several small children who seemed to be his. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lollys clutched at her maid, a slender, pretty girl with short dark hair who looked as though she wanted nothing so much as to shove her mistress into the dry moat, onto those iron spikes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now, her maid is there, sirs; she is present in the chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “What do you like best about being a maid and what do you like least?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Her husband says I should marry, but she wants to keep me as her maid.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The young maid who has been listening to our English gibberish offers us a pink perfumed hand towel, which Sandi accepts and waves like the flag for our side. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She starts sobbing then, like the worst thing she’s ever done in her life is yell at her maid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She wore an actual maid’s uniform, black, with white apron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you are employed as a lady’s maid your employers seldom have a chance of learning whether or not you are a good cook. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But the maid who answers the door shakes her head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A few floors down in the Rio hotel hallway, Jule found a maid who was pushing a cart. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z People like the sleep-in maid for Beacon Hill white folks who used to come in with her ‘ ‘ooh, my deah” manners and order com plasters in the Jew’s drugstore for black folks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There are ten rooms downstairs and one with a stuffed grizzly bear that looks like it ate up the last maid and is biding for the next one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When Magdalena was thirteen, her mother died, and she didn’t have any place to go, so she took a job as a maid for a rich, important family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The two girls returned with clean faces and hands, and Teenie handed them each an outfit worn by the house serving maids. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried imagining how white South Africans would react to blacks suddenly appearing in their “pure,” affluent, silent-as- a-tomb suburbs, not as nannies, garden boys, garden girls, washerwomen and maids, but as neighbours. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid named Fanni emerges with a dark loaf and a round of cheese, and she smiles at Frederick as she sets it down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “If it is necessary, Messieurs,” she said quietly when he had finished, “that is all there is to it. My maid has the keys. She will attend to it with you.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I see two maids I don’t know with other families, but not Yule May. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She would even cut her hair and sell it—a maid back home had told her that girls with good hair could always do that. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The kitchen is hot, but I have to get out of my room, where all I do is worry because no other maids have agreed to work with us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “It’s alright, five maids have already told me it’s too much work.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “That is explained, I think. When he arrived to answer Mrs. Hubbard, the maid was in with her mistress. When she finally returned to her own compartment, the conductor was in with Mrs. Hubbard.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go shopping then. Go get you some new clothes. Go do whatever white women do when the maid’s home.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “I’m in high school, Mom. In the twenty-first century. I don’t have to get married by the time I’m twenty-two or risk becoming an old maid.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Dinner is served,” I hear a maid announce and I weave my way back into the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her bedroom was all satin and flowers in vases, and her maid, who was Black, went around saying “Lawsy, missy” all the time. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, her sleeping like an old maid did prove one thing: she and Grandpa hadn’t been sweet on each other before Granny died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Then aside to me he added, “I doubt the education of maids permits the reading of this scripture.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was there I saw Lynesse, a maid half my age. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And she was jealous of the maid and she sent her from the room when Wang Lung came in and she accused Wang Lung that he looked at the maid. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Poirot opened that of the lady’s maid and tossed it aside. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say there were twice as many women as men in there, not only kitchen workers and maids, but also war wives and defense- worker women, lonely and looking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Kings and sheep and whinnying horses and serving maids and beggar boys gathered together in the frosty imagined night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “She seemed frightfully old to me. I suppose she couldn’t have been more than forty. Susanne, of course, used to look after my clothes and maid me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed the maid's back down a long, dark corridor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Finally he croaked, “Come back in the morning, and we’ll see if you fit in the last maid’s uniform.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She works two jobs, one as a hotel maid and another as a restaurant dishwasher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “One, two, three—six, Monsieur. The old American lady, a Swedish lady, the young English lady, the Countess Andrenyi and Madame la Princess Dragomiroff and her maid.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not know how to explain myself, it was like talking to her maid, Angelika, who was so much like me and at the same time so much different. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z By now, she would probably have given Mandy fifty scullery maids to keep her happy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She pictures the maids in their quiet, mysterious cluster at the end of the patio, Altagracia with her hands in her lap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Daltons had more money than we did and lived in a big house with a maid and a butler and weren’t really friends with my parents. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe there’s been some secret division of the world’s women into breeders and drones, and those at the maid level are no longer supposed to be reproducing at all. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If it means playing lady’s maid to Katherine in the meantime, so be it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z So Lord Odysseus kept his place alone with Arete and the king Alldnoos beside him, while the maids went to and fro clearing away the wine cups and the tables. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For several weeks she troubled over it before granting conditional permission: ‘Just remember, you’re not a maid. I don’t want you wearing a uniform.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Michaela, the skinny maid with the merry disposition and homely sallow face, and she was waking him up because he had a visitor waiting just outside the door. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Look, I read your outline. It’s certainly... original, but it won’t work. What maid in her right mind would ever tell you the truth?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She wore a little outfit just like the maids I’d seen on TV She was very beautiful. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I even had maid service—didn't have to make a bed or pick a wet towel off the floor for half a year. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The maid came to help Ash while Ana and Clara followed their mother and aunt indoors. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One is an older black woman dressed in a maid’s uniform. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z And how his wife would have been an “old maid.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z In the maid’s room, at the house in Pétion-Ville, I laid Rose on my mat and rushed to prepare lunch. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The two years seemed to have done sufficient harm, for at twenty-eight, Mimi was an "old maid." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Must I let a scullery maid cost me my head?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z She say to Sofia, All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They maid me get out of the bed and on another bed that has weels on it and they rolld me out of the room and down the hall to the door that says sergery. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z One old maid—the sour kind—he knew them well enough. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t like being a maid where hard work only earned you a bonus in exhaustion. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “We want a do all kind a stories. Good things and bad. She working with... another maid right now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “There’s no shame in being a maid. She does a serious job, and I pay her well.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A maid showed me to a corridor lined with doors. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It will be retrieved without remark by a diplomatic maid in the morning. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The bus today is nothing but maids heading home in our white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Stop, you little rat!'' Victor bellowed after him. His voice boomed through the huge house so loudly that two maids came running across, the courtyard. “ The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z "Miss Greenwood wanted her tray," the maid said, avoiding my eyes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I won’t tell her secret if she won’t tell mine. I don’t want my husband to know I’m hiring a maid.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A maid stood behind her, brushing out the night's tangles, but when Catelyn entered, her sister rose to her feet, smiling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Auntie worked as a maid and Uncle as a janitor—same as before the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The white people at the tables clap for the maids and servers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She finished off the last cake, licking her fingers with relish, then set the tray outside the door and rang for a maid. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "I don't see the dancing dolls being left out in the rain or given away to the maid!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Joyce had abruptly left her job in Laurel- hurst that summer, after the judge had chased her around the dining table one afternoon, in pursuit of services not generally required of maids. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Satisfied, she grunted, and told the maid to serve ‘the little master.’This young girl was hardly older than Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sometimes. Not the one today. Usually I play a serving maid or some such." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A maid in a green uniform was setting the tables for supper. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Beyond the crowd, in the shadows of a doorway, I notice a young indi'gena girl, a maid, pausing in her sweeping, broom in hand, watching the procession, swaying slightly in rhythm to the music. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the seasons brought the fourth around, as long months waned, and the slow days were spent, one of her maids, who knew the secret, told us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He feared anyone in uniform: the meter maid giving out parking tickets, a museum guard approaching to tell him not to get too close to his favorite Goya. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Telemakhos, now strong in the magic, cried: “Come with me, friends, and get our rations down! They are all packed at home, and my own mother knows nothing!—only one maid was told.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother sent the maid to answer it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I reckon she just now thinking about what it’s gone be like if she don’t have a maid no more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “The kids think the maids don’t notice them, but I know you all by sight.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He ushers Werner to the dining table and calls for the maid to bring cake. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When not glazed, his eyes were lively and intelligent, his hair an artless tumble of brown locks that many a maid might have envied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The new laundry maid, Nivea, was using them up inefficiently, without a system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They all saw her in her starched blouse, with her ring of keys at her waist and her old maid’s bun, exactly as they had always seen her in the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She ask me what happen with her old maid Constantine and her mama, and I go cold. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The only satisfaction to be had from the whole affair was that the new maid was dismissed immediately. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Mmm. Too bad. Do you know what happened to her? It’s just occurred to me, you’ll need a section about your own maid.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “And men will lie to get their way, as any maid could tell you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had a maid to do that, probably a colored woman who... The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid stopped at a door at the end of the hall and turned to Nok. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then said Arete to her maids: “The tripod: stand the great tripod legs about the fire.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They went inside, and Mrs. Matsika sent the maid robot off for fruit juice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, pretending she is a prisoner in the Bastille to make her work as a scullery maid more bearable. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Say hi to Toomer for me,” Ben called as the maid walked out the back door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and this kid and the maid, we ran out to the road and watched as the firemen tried to put it out, but by the time they did, it was too late. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We were maids and farmers, handymen and washer-women, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z An old woman wearing a hairnet and a light blue maid’s uniform brought in several trays at a time. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z So she went up to her chamber softly lit, accompanied by her maids. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Before this, Amma was a maid in a house where a rich family lived. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She and one of the maids sat before the fire, sewing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My little maid Clarice, her eyes shining with excitement, talked of nothing else. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’m taking a check to my maid... Constantine. I forgot to pay her.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Her maids, leaving their quarters, came with white arms bare to clear the wine cups and the bread, and move the trestle boards where men had lingered drinking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But then she reined them in, and spared the whip, so that her maids could follow with Odysseus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes?” said the maid who answered in her little white cap. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Werner, unable to bear it a second longer, calls for the maid. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “A scullery maid. Of no account. But our cook, Mandy, has cakes fit for a prince.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Jinjoo’s mother thrust a small wad of cash into the maid’s hands. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But off they went in a ground-covering trot, with princess, maids, and laundry drawn behind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It belonged to Ella, and will fit her alone, whether she is a scullery maid or a duchess.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She called the buder and maid robots and instructed them to douse the Mellower in a cold bath. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps if you beg it of me. Just now, it will suffice for you to be her bath maid. I won’t have her smelling like you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In any case, he will take her; they can fire Lucie, the maid, and S. can do the housekeeping. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Of course you don’t, Dorian. I had the maids send for a copy today.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A photograph was lying between the pages—the photograph of Capricorn's maid, the woman who had tried to help Dustfinger and was to die for it tonight! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The maid came in and said that the female English wanted to see the male English now, at once. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I eat in the kitchen with the maids and waitresses.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The maid stares down at the interlaced hands she holds before her, a gesture that Yolanda remembers seeing illustrated in a book for Renaissance actors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "I am past my childbearing years, what beauty I had long fled," she replied with a tired half smile, "yet men come sniffing after me as they never did when I was a maid." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It seemed to Matt that both the maid and the doctor shivered slightly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s really starting to irritate me how she never leaves the house, how she smiles like the maid walking in every morning is the best part of her day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z For thinking she’d stop feeling like the maid just because we were at her house, because she wasn’t wearing a uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Two maids came out of Capricorn's house, each with a pile of plates. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Later, as I’m cleaning up after dinner with the maids I mention Mariana’s offer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The maids shrieked, and then went in a body to the dining-room; and I laid what flowers I had on my dear mother’s breast. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “The other maid where I worked said she would teach me what she knew,” Lupita added, “but she never found the time.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z According to the scullery maid she was still bedridden; apparently her labor had been complicated. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He of the ship burst out among the maids: “Your son’s ashore this morning, O my Queen!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, darling. By the way, we really have to get rid of that maid. She is good for absolutely nothing.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Wait here, but don’t touch anything. The senator will be in shortly,” the maid said brusquely, leaving him alone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you are made new by love. A maid no more, but born a woman,” said a wiser, more generous voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When she first started working, the only jobs she qualified for were janitor, maid, and waitress. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “The Merling Queen has chosen a new Mermaid to take the place of the one that drowned. She is the daughter of a Prestayn serving maid, thirteen and penniless, but lovely.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Meggie put her head out of the window, but there were still only the maids down in the yard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Queen would walk next to me and act like she was my mother, and my mother would walk a few steps behind, like she was the maid working for the colored woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With that advice, she went off to make sure the maids had cleaned the ground-floor bedrooms properly. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z And then there was the time that a maid, new to the Tulane household and eager to impress her employers with her diligence, came upon Edward sitting on his chair in the dining room. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z After all, if there weren’t people who have far too much money and floor space and stuff, there could hardly be maids. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she used some of the water to wash her own face, changed from her nightgown to the maid’s dress she wore for her usual chores, and finally made her way to the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The maid said, “It’s His Lordship of the New Creation.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I was hoping to get four or five. To really show what it’s like to be a maid in Jackson.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Which was that a hardworking and respected colored maid has agreed to let me interview her and describe in specifics what it’s like to work for the white women of our town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hilly’s tall, thin maid, Yule May, is folding dough around tiny sausages. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We have a maid who comes to our house every day to do the laundry, cooking, and cleaning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her maids came running at the sound of her voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When I tell him about the colored maids filing past me after the prayer meeting, I feel a swell of pride over what we’ve done. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She wore a hotel maid’s uniform, gray with a white collar. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The maid stood up and wiped her soapy hands on her apron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew, of course, was never allowed outside the gate unless he went with Miss Lark for a walk in the Park, or with one of the maids to have his toes manicured. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I was like a child brought to her first school, or a little untrained maid who has never left home before, seeking a situation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Now his lavish home included landscaped gardens, an expensive Jaguar sports car in the driveway, and a maid. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then she had walked back through the garden, walked past some of the other maids who had been sent to look for her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some called the meeting “The Hen Convention,” and those who had planned it were described as “divorced wives, childless women, and some old maids.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The knocker fell, and instantly a maid was bidding him enter, curtsying, asking his name. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid showed us into a drawing room as large as the entire first floor of the coffee shop. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved a maid as fair as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a maid,” I said awkwardly, “I'm sure Alice, if she is the housemaid, will look after me all right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “She said we have to interview at least twelve maids for her to consider it,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A maid brought them a silver finger bowl and filled it out of a beautiful spouting golden jug, then drew a polished table to their side. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid led Nok into the house and up a short flight of steps to the second level. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word, but a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband's soldiers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The maid, with her hands clasped across her starched white bosom, was staring at her mistress with a look of absolute disbelief on her face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some other people have maids, but they are poor mestiza girls from tiny farm communities. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Greenwood," the maid said decisively as the nurse came in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Harker was not down when the maid came to announce dinner, so I said: “She is possibly tired; let dinner wait an hour,” and I went on with my work. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z No witch would be stupid enough to leave anything suspicious lying around for the hotel maid to see. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Others looked as innocent as maids, but that was just a trick of their trade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So busy were we venting our irritation that we scarcely noticed the serving maid who approached us until she spoke our names. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But a handful of families would let their domestics keep their children with them, living in little maids’ quarters or flatlets in the backyard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “It can buy you a cook and a maid and someone to do all your work, which frees up time. That’s like getting an extra hour.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the days when Great-great-aunt Florentine played old maid with me and Tidings. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To put that in perspective, there are maids in South Africa who still earn less than that today. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Harry found out when he stopped in again and the Goodacres’ maid told him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now came the maids, bare-armed and lovely, voices breaking into the room. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid said nothing, merely bowed her head. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I loved a maid as fail as summer, with sunlight in her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “All these houses they’re building without maid’s quarters? It’s just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases than we do. I double.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She hadn't touched the breakfast one of the maids had brought them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "A city pale as die moon and lovely as a maid. An hour's ride, no more." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The light-skinned Dominican maids feared her, for Haiti was synonymous with voodoo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When I rose from the bath and stepped into the robe Mandy held for me, I was no longer a scullery maid but the equal of anyone at Char’s ball. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1950, nearly three in five black women in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city, worked as maids for white families, and almost three-quarters of employed black men mowed lawns and did other kinds of unskilled labor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It would be too embarrassing to come all the way from Puerto Rico so she could be somebody’s maid. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z They were protected by their mommies, their nannies, their maids. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I look around to see who’s here, reckoning I better ask some more maids to help us, now that it look like we squeaked by Miss Hilly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But Yule May, she probably the most educated maid we got in our parish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And aloud he said, “What sort of a maid would you have, then?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When Roza brushed the maid’s hands away, the maid barely seemed to notice. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s late Sunday morning, and everyone has gone to Otavalo except me and the other maids, who are pasturing the cows in the valley. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw maids hanging out wash, and someone seemed to be repairing a roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I go quiet, thinking of Hilly’s bathroom plan and accusing the maid of stealing and her talk of diseases. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The maid’s route home did not include a cut across the park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was, perhaps, no more bizarre illustration of the conflation between cleansing and racial cleansing than a law that barred Jews from employing “German maids” in their houses. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The maid let out a shriek that brought a dozen people running to see who was being murdered. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z From across the hall came the early-morning clatter of the maids in the kitchen, preparing the breakfast trays. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z That was another one of those unspoken rules: maids didn’t talk about themselves. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But if Missus Stein likes it, I’ll be writing the other maids’ stories and that will be more than enough work. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Felicia’s father didn’t return with a maid but he brought back a signed baseball for her sister, Lourdes, that made her jump in place with excitement. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some fifteen or twenty times since noon, Sandra, the maid, had come away from the lake-front window in the kitchen with her mouth set tight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When a fire was blazing in the hearth, Sansa thanked the maid curtly and ordered her out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was evident from the moment the two maids stepped into my pantry the following morning that Miss Kenton had already spoken to them, for they both came in sobbing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In any case, to return to my thread, you will appreciate I was not unperturbed at the prospect of telling Miss Kenton I was about to dismiss two of her maids. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yes ma’am,” I say, even though I have no idea how I’ll finish two maids in time, much less write stories about Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I will, as you suggest, check the work of the new maids.' it is not like you to have overlooked such obvious things, Miss Kenton.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The man named Hugh recalled hearing that she was working as a serving maid for a household in Petty France, that colony of French emigres just outside the walls of the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “The scullery maid is not pleased to see me,” said Ellidyr. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Dill’s mother, dressed in her maid’s uniform, walked in and looked around, her face grim. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for the houses of priests and nuns and they have maids, too, even if they say poverty is noble. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes he placed a ring on his finger or put a necklace around the neck of a maid who happened to take his fancy. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The other maids and Mami put two and two together, and the sum was that now for almost two months we had been living with a thief! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The tower her brother had set aside for her use was the very same that she and Lysa had shared as maids. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She kept trying to be “better’ The maids did not help—they told her that Annie had been much sweeter and nicer than she was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m the maid, she ain’t gone win no friends talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Then the child smiled and dropped her head, suddenly a maid and no more a child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Our previous maid, Constantine, used to stare those forward-sloping stairs down every day, like it was a battle between them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But it is this primal posture of submission—and of what is ultimately anal accessibility— that seems to gratify the consumers of maid services. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not going to college so your mama’s friends don’t have to use the same bathroom as the maid.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z ‘Shall you wish to get dressed, ma’am?’ the maid said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In great anger he put her away and married one of her maids, Sidero, who ill-treated her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The maids were generally in their bedrooms changing during the afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The boy puts on an attitude of impatience: he’s much too busy with matters of state to be bothered by maids and a chauffeur. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day when the maid emptied the stove, she found a little tin heart, which was all that was left of him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “But still, you will be an old maid! and that’s so dreadful!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Twice daily the maid twisted rags into buckets of water and wiped the floors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His own handmills were there, and twelve maids had the job of grinding out whole grain and barley meal, the pith of men. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She signaled to the maid who had come with her, a young girl at most only four or five years older than Meggie herself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She’s well known for just as soon firing her maids as looking at them, and as far as she is concerned, everything that lies outside the civilized boundaries of Johannesburg is Darkest Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They took the women and the children and they put them all into the inner court where Lotus had lived alone with Cuckoo and her maids, and there in discomfort and crowding they lived. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for the respectable people with maids along the Ennis Road and the North Circular Road where there’s no hope of a tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “When shall I see you?” asked Arobin, seeking to detain her, the maid having left the room. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The maids, cooks, assistant cooks, and pastry chef had all made themselves scarce, which meant there was no food to be had, and Gherland’s gullet was quite empty. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The maids said she got mounted by spirits. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z A maid in a high-waisted dress takes their coats, expertly flips off the water, and hangs them on a brass-footed rack. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A maid came by to tip a golden jug over their fingers into a silver bowl and draw a gleaming table up beside them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the inn on our first night, she informed me I had taken the space in their carriage that would otherwise have been occupied by their maid. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s complicated, just like June. She couldn’t get over me working as a maid in your mother’s house.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way, she’s the reason the other maids even agreed to help. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Miss Tynmore, the tiny, bright chirping old maid who gave Mama music lessons, was just like the canary whose cage hung in her kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d drop the maids off house by house because everybody was going in the same direction. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “The pig-boy, the scullery maid—I do not see the dreamer.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Polly was very surprised because up till now there had never been any children in that house, but only Mr. Ketterley and Miss Ketterley, a brother and sister, old bachelor and old maid, living together. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “If all the maids in Kyrria could tame ogres,” Char said, “we would have much less to do.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Could it be they were laughing because the maid was announcing him? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The maids opened a door to reveal the most beautiful room Matt had ever seen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Most maids stay with the same family all they lives, but not me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He fell silent, wary of the maids and youths who stood near us, bantering. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So it’s up to me and it didn’t take but five or six maids before everbody already know what I’m on ask before I get three words out my mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Deal,” the girl in pink said, “and if we get married someday, you’ll be my maid of honor for sure.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They got on well together, mistress and maid, and by the sixth month of her stay, Michael-Mary suggested that she learn how to type. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Some owners leave out rolls of coins or even stacks of loose bills, perhaps with a video camera trained on them to catch some light-fingered or especially hungry maid in the act. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got into our car, I saw the maid peeking out the front window. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z MEANWHILE, schoolmates who had been on the bus had run home and telephoned Claudette’s mother at the house where she worked as a maid. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I loved a maid as fail as summer, he remembered, with sunlight in her hair ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That Sunday after the maids went off to early mass, my mother inspected their quarters while my father kept watch by a window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “The wedding’s tomorrow and I won’t have a second to myself. I’m maid of honor. Will you be able to come?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Could the model maid be an actual maid and the model home someone’s actual dwelling? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleven winding steps lead to the second floor, which is full of the smells of faded grandeur: an old sewing room, a former maid’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Now all she could do was listen: “Ah, here’s what I’m looking for! The Huntsman’s Almanac. I keep this copy shelved in my study. The maid must have put it away.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z If you were a black woman, you worked in a factory or as a maid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I try not to think about the maid and take a deep breath. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Many times we were without a maid and my mother had to do all the housework herself.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of immigrants start that way nowadays. And the maids get to bring home all the leftover soap and the clothes people leave behind.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupita went out into the hall, blessing the deep-pile carpet that covered the sound of her footsteps, and ran noiselessly to the maid’s closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Not to protect herself, but to protect me and the other maids. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Folks on Stella’s side of town worked as maids and cooks, janitors and sharecropping farmers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I rang again and a maid with a sullen face opened the door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z In the hallway, near a bank of windows, a pretty maid washed the glass squares before falling forward into nothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Soft-spoken Lord Cerwyn had actually brought his daughter with him, a plump, homely maid of thirty years who sat at her father's left hand and never lifted her eyes from her plate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She rose and left her glowing upper room, and down the stairs, with her two maids in train, this beautiful lady went before the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the seasons brought the fourth around, one of her maids, who knew the secret, told us; we found her unraveling the splendid shroud. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite regular spongings with benzene at the hands of our maid SanJuanna, the coat always kept its musty smell and strange color, which was neither black nor green. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Her maids sluiced the blood off her face, scrubbed the dirt from her back, washed her hair and brushed it out until it sprang back in thick auburn curls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z ‘I’ll take her out, ma’am, at once,’ the maid was saying. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them spoke about Mrs. Caruthers killing her son’s first fiancée, a woman who had been her personal maid and a colored girl light enough to pass as white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “There’s my sweet maid. Good lads. You may leave us now. Not you, Reek. You stay.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They cried to each other, “Come, have mercy on this poor maid and help her diligently.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "A cruel maid. My ship is well named. If I steer her onto the rocks in my distraction, you'll have yourself to blame." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And it always ended in “Kitty, a fair but frozen maid.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z When my daughter, Rosa, was introduced to the father of a wealthy Harvard classmate, he ventured that she must have been named for a favorite maid. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse looked questioningly from me to the maid. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The guests wandered around, choosing delicacies brought to them on trays by the maids. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d be honored if you would be my daughter for this wedding. My daughter, and my maid of honor.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z As for her, she was a passionless maid and she clung to him as to a father, and to him she was indeed more than half child and scarcely woman. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Most labored as maids and waiters in homes and hotels, making just enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I expect Basta's divided it out among Capricorn's maids. He likes to ingratiate himself with them.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Architect, utility worker, maid: heart attack is the great leveler, and in those first fearful moments, three New Yorkers with little in common faced a single common threat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The maid delivered bread heels and bowls full of beef and potato stew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The maid, a middle-aged woman with a funny cap on the top of her head, was the first to recover. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you want to come again you have only to tell me. Ring me on the house telephone. I shall understand. I don’t allow the maids up here. No one ever comes but me.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “What does a rich young lady such as yourself want with the wee savings of a scullery maid?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Thyon’s boyhood bed was shaped like a war brig, complete with real sails and riggings, and even miniature cannons, so heavy it took the strength of two maids to rock him to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We had Mama’s teaching check, Daddy’s railroad check, and the money Grandma India had earned from her work as a maid. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our maid called me away from my reception, completely hysterical, Scipio!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z It was annoyance that he had been so mightily inconvenienced, that he had been handled by the maid as cavalierly as an inanimate object—a serving bowl, say, or a teapot. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I explain to Alice that the project is a collection of true stories about maids and their experiences waiting on white families. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She sighed, "i say it tastes like folly, but what would a dry maid know of such things?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shoot, now I’m wondering if this fool even plans on hiring a maid or if she just drug me all the way out here for sport. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The white people in the valley weren’t rich enough then to want maids; they were small farmers and tradesmen and wanted hard-labor help if anything. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Honestly,” said the maid who could usually be found trying to clean the high windows on the second floor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Mrs. Templeton had separate African maids for her cooking, cleaning, and laundry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid lays pressed chicken on our plates, tops it with a perky dollop of mayonnaisey dressing, and we all smile, glad for the mood breaker. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “But then, to be an old maid at last, like Miss Bates!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was in charge of all the maids, and nothing was safe from the Magpie’s eyes and ears, not even the secrets the women whispered to each other in their bedrooms by night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Mami had a maid from the Island who lived with us in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Thirty-five maids done said no and I feel like I’m selling something nobody want to buy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I ain’t gone be able to get no other job as a maid, not with Miss Leefolt and Miss Hilly calling me a thief. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I stayed out of my stepfamily’s way as much as possible, and the longer I worked as a scullery maid, and the filthier I got, the less Hattie and Mum Olga tormented me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, pick my peas! A white woman as a maid and a beggar! Must not be no slaves from where she come from,” Teenie commented. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Capricorn’s maid was sitting on a stone coffin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Trust is indeed something in these days. It is, perhaps, better to have a homely woman whom one can trust than a more chic maid—for example, some smart Parisienne.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks ago, Aibileen told me that Yule May, Hilly’s maid, might help us, that she shows a little more interest every time Aibileen talks to her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A maid without a tongue could never let slip any secrets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Yes, it's me, disguised as a serving maid. Good day, Mr. Pope," she added, not very cordially. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t see Paco. One of the other maids told me. She was doing Mamá’s work. Something has happened! I know it has.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Penelope then mounted the stair again, her maids behind, with treasure in their arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There were footsteps on the back stairs, and the voice of one of the other maids on the other side of the wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A maid carrying a pitcher curtsied, moved toward a washbasin in the corner of the room. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Princess and maids delighted in that feast; then, putting off their veils, they ran and passed a ball to a rhythmic beat, Nausikaa flashing first with her white arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need a maid to clean out the cells. Dying men do puke out some terrible things, they do. You’re a steadfast girl. Tell your mistress we’d pay her the going rate for your services.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Seated in the Negro gallery amongst other servants, Indians, and white boys banished for whispering and tricks, she appeared no different, no more peculiar in her circumstances, than any lady’s maid. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I don’t even mind speaking Afrikaans to the maid, which is practically the same thing as English once you get the hang of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For me and Suzanne, it was supposed to go like this: We’d be the maids of honor at each other’s weddings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This white family also had a black maid who lived in the servants’ quarters in the backyard, and I’d play with her son whenever we stayed there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Somewhere a man and a maid embraced, and fumbled at each other’s clothes with eager hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At this the good old woman left the chamber to tell the maids her bidding. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On New Year’s Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of ‘getting ready for the party’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also a pleasure and a relief to have a maid who read and who seemed to be acquainted with some of the great masters of literature. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he began to give his order to the serving maid, she giggled and ran off for the landlady. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I know for sure is that this is as low as I can get in my life as a maid, and probably in most other lives as well. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had begun working in neighbors' gardens and doing pickup work as a maid in town in exchange for mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “He must have fallen in and pulled the lid down on top of him. I’ll call a maid to give him a bath.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had engaged a maid for me, Clarice, the daughter of somebody on the estate, a nice quiet well-mannered girl, who, thank heaven, had never been in service before and had no alarming standards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Some chickens had gotten into the office from his house next door, and the maid was chasing them out with a broom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention her asking me the whereabouts a Constantine, her maid growing up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Randall’s maid was talking as she took the soup from me, and I wondered what her name used to be and what she answered to now. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You could be a maid in a hotel,” Brave Orchid advised. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The maid had just finished doing the room and Catherine was not back yet. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Investigation showed that Claudette Colvin was being raised by her great-uncle and great-aunt, respectively a “yard boy” and a “day lady,” as maids were called. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the kitchen, the maid is listening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Amma must have worn colorful saris, too, when she was a maid, instead of the plain uniform of old shirts and long skirts that all the women wear in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Two undercooks were kneading bread, and a maid was slicing vegetables. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Over her little corpse, we stood, a country maid and a Spaniard grounds man. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I’d get work as a scullery maid, or move into the orphanage and do laundry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember Matilde saying that she would see other maids like her at the markets in Quito or on the street running errands. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hilly’s maid, Yule May, is so shy I doubt she’d want to help me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hilly’s watching her maid, Yule May, refill our tea glasses. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It must not be much if five maids already said no. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The door opened and an Ogilvie maid stared at the backside of my grumbling mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To support the household, my grandmother worked as a maid at a country club in Kingston. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What I love most about the painting is that Judith and her maid are slicing off the man’s head, but they don’t even look scared. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When the bath maids had washed him, rubbed him down, put a fresh tunic and a cloak around him, he left the bathing place to join the men at wine in hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor can’t send out for more because there’s no money to send out for more and if there was they wouldn’t have a maid to send. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When Selena had rung her apartment bell, the girls were admitted—or rather, the door was drawn in and left ajar—by a colored maid with whom Selena didn’t seem to be on speaking terms. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I am in the old Jackson kitchens with the maids, hot and sticky in their white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "There's been a mistake," I told the maid, leaning over the counter and speaking in a low, confidential tone. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She was not an inn girl or a nursery maid or a companion to old women. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When the maids passed the guards the men whistled at them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z One of the maids screamed as he scampered between her legs and called out to the others. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The innkeeper looked to his wife, who said, "Our beds are good, and I shall have the maid make up a fire in the bedroom for you and your companion." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z If the maids were afraid to help us yesterday, I’m sure they’re terrified today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Alone except for my cooks, maids, and gardeners, of course. But they all live here too, so they don’t really count as visitors.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "In fact, in the countryside, you'll still find some campesinos using the word in the old sense. Altagracia!" she calls to one of the maids sitting at the other end of the patio. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z His mind went on to the two women in the house, the tight-lipped old maid and the girl. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It’s not a dozen maids, but it’s one more. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The maid's warty index finger slid down the list of names of the patients in Belsize tacked upon the kitchen wall "Greenwood, no breakfast today." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The maid stayed behind, standing at attention near the open doorway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She turned to the maid and said, ‘Mary, ask them to serve breakfast for three in the...I think it had better be in the Ballroom. That has the highest ceiling.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In bigger cities, like Otavalo and Quito, there must be lots of indigenous maids. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This time the device exploded as intended, severely wounding the senator’s maid when she unwrapped the package. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This was Yan Chang, my mother’s personal maid, and she knew how to fuss over my mother just the right amount. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t scream as the maid had done. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the one who assured the colored maids we wouldn’t be found out, and I am the one responsible for this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I rang the bell, and after a while I heard a pair of sandals approach, and a maid I had never seen before came to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were a maid here in Daffodil Manor.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She’d come two years ago from a small town far south of Incheon to work for their family after their first maid got married. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z According to the scullery maid, Bibi’s plates were not washed with the others. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Outside, I can see the construction guys knocking back Gatorade, but the rule is that no fluid or food item can touch a maid’s lips when she’s inside a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "When has a maid ever understood a man's need far revenge?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The pigtailed maid was a broad-shouldered girl with the thick arms of a cotton loader. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a blind innkeeper and his sighted wife, who was the cook, and their two young daughters, who worked as waitresses and maids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When one of the maids, a skinny little thing, brought their supper Fenoglio hid the written sheets he had kept beneath the covers of his bed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “What you gone do if Miss Hilly and them ladies tell your husband you got a maid out here? Ain’t that gone blow your cover r “I’ve already worked that out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Tidbit laughed out loud when he saw the two girls dressed as maids. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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