| 单词 | slavey |
| 例句 | “I thought I was among free men, not slaveys.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, don’t blame me if you find yourself still a slavey five years hence.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z They were the usual words that the slavey used when she dragged upstairs of an evening with his tea-things. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Wasp seemed to know that Annie was his own particular “slavey,” and insisted on her being constantly within hail of him. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z At present her conversation was restricted to the man who bought her pictures, and the hard-worked, lodging-house slavey on the not too numerous occasions when she brought up the coals. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z This is indicated by the use of the Christian name, the insistence on a uniform, and the commonness of contemptuous terms such as “slavey.” Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z The whole picture fades as suddenly as did its reality a few weeks ago, as in a rich cockney twang the unkempt, down-at-heel slavey prefers the above request. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z A bucolic slavey—a person whose cheerful simpleness is like to that of the little creatures of the field—attends you. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z At last in the basement hall they perceived a glimmering light through a crack in a door which the slavey opened fearfully. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Her step-mother's sister is a vulgar woman who lets lodgings, and there's only one servant—such a miserable slavey; and Isabel went to the door three times while I was there. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Giving the poor little slavey half-a-crown, I sent her away; and, the next minute, my sister was sobbing in my arms. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z "And just a moment," continued Mrs. Anderson, in a confidential tone, beckoning to the slavey. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life There was a strangeness in the room, And Something white and wavy Was standing near me in the gloom— I took it for the carpet-broom Left by that careless slavey. Rhyme? And Reason? At these words of authority, the slavey wilted into a cringing, obsequious creature. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z I hated the dismal little 'slavey' who, twice a week, on an average, would bring him up to me. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. The baker and his wife, who owned and ill-treated me, had a little girl in the house—a slavey they had taken from the same work-house from which they had fetched me. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Ve're chaffed and jeered by every cove, by slaveys on a bus; Our werry watermen are now our masters top of us. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Yes," thought mother, "and make a nice little slavey of her into the bargain. Fairy Tales from the German Forests “Just take us to my cousin, please, and never mind what you think,” ordered Billie, too exasperated and anxious to feel any human pity for the miserable little slavey. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z This constituted getting the establishment in order, the slavey having gone tootling off on a party some days before. The Gorgeous Girl During the evening, the little slavey, Sarah, came over from the milliner’s shop, with a bundle of sewing materials—which Martha was required to make up immediately. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z And all because they compete for the cents of Irish-American slaveys and bootblacks. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule In the morning she was nothing better than a slavey, but in the afternoon she generally managed to put on a cap with long white streamers and an apron with a bib. The School Queens “You are very kind, but——” began Billie, when Marty, the slavey, hurried in, and behind her came a shabby middle-aged man, with a weak, delicate face, pale watery eyes and an ingratiating smile. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z She really put in an eighteen-hour day as both slavey and sylph, and seemed filled with everlasting patience and jazz. The Gorgeous Girl I was put to work in the accounting department, as general slavey, under the immediate supervision of a youth who had just graduated from my position and who considered me his legitimate victim. A Son of the Middle Border If the state of slavey is to exist at all, the master must have, and ought to have, such power of punishment as will compel them to perform the duties of their station. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The landlady and a slavey waited on table; the landlord could be seen loafing in the kitchen. Free Air Altogether she was just the little unlovely slavey of fiction and the drama and everyday life in boarding-house-land. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions Pango gave the incomprehensible name of a village in the interior, adding, “Make slavey, make slavey.” The Three Commanders I feel degraded by every dirty five-dollar bill I get by being a slavey. Jewel Weed And, when I got home, the slavey had forgotten to lay supper! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 After a short pause the kitchen slavey answered his summons: her eyes were red with weeping, and her nose very smutty. Dickory Dock A single life of drudgery and hardship, even as a boarding-house slavey, meant, if nothing more, meals and a roof over her head. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions "Bring lights, please, and tea, and stir up the fire, Jemima, my friend," he remarked, when the blackened but alert face of the little slavey appeared at the door. The Mark Of Cain “She used to be my ‘boss’ when I was a poor little slavey in the Star office, before my best beloved prince came and rescued me from dragons and printers’ devils.” Jewel Weed Can you spare another week as general slavey? The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story I'm only Carry the lady-help—general slavey like, earning my living, only that I eat with the family and not in the kitchen. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn All during the week they worked like kitchen slaveys, doing chores, running errands. Prudence Says So Clarice, me carry de pitcher, or Indian fancy you white slavey;” and Rachel laughed at her own wit. In the Rocky Mountains Mrs. Quincy, established in a little flat with a middle-aged submissive slavey, was as nearly reconciled to fate as her nature would allow. Jewel Weed Raffles said that, as far as he knew, the “slaveys” were thinking about anything else than the proceedings of the two young Oliphants. Roger Ingleton, Minor "Please, sir, there's a lady here," said the little slavey. A Crooked Path A Novel Since leaving the hotel she had exchanged but few words with anyone beyond her landlady, the little slavey and the people at the various agencies. The Land of Promise "No fault o' 'is, then," said the slavey quickly, voicing her earnest partisanship without a moment's wait. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day How I pity the long procession of "slaveys" who must have followed each other drearily in that lodging-house under the landlady's jurisdiction. The Motor Maid Jill and I have a thing on, and we don’t want it spoiled by the slaveys.” Roger Ingleton, Minor I never was in a lodging-house in my life that the slavey didn't fall in love with me. Mike Fletcher A Novel One of these is--"The idea of degradation, attached to the position of a 'slavey' in the minds of the lower classes themselves." Town Life in Australia Then, for a time, she paused in thought, while the slavey lost herself in dreams that, possibly, she had been serving and been worshiping a real princess. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day Only a little Belgian refugee, a sort of "slavey," hung on, because she had no other place to go. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. "The slavey next door," answered Jack, upon which an interchange of experience took place between Jack and the young fellow in which gable windows and park seats and various other stage-settings had prominent parts. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel When I see you beginning to help your poor, exhausted mother, and running messages for that overworked slavey—I think you call her Maria—then perhaps I'll do less. The Rebel of the School Shall I come in or wait on the mat till the slavey arrives. An Unpardonable Liar Hypnotized by the idea, the slavey might slip to the two mysterious Germans, sometime, something which would not be charged upon the bill! The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day The derisive slang term "slavey" expresses the generally prevalent public contempt. Vocational Guidance for Girls She went to the kitchen and scolded the slavey, Who answered, "All bones must be boiled down for gravy." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 We don't subscribe to anything, or take any truck in parsons; and the slavey has a whitlow on her finger, and mother's having fits over the cooking. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Only the slaveys and scullery maids that couldn't help themselves. The Marriage of William Ashe The slavey promised, but the seed was sown. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day The slavey tossed her head, and said she'd see about it. Marcella "Yes, sir, she is," said the slavey, with a frightened bob, which was a tribute to the major's martial mien and gorgeous attire. The Firm of Girdlestone Backstair slaveys vie with each other whose master is more mighty. Every Soul Hath Its Song That morning she had been the hopeless slavey in the Baxter kitchen, an unpaid drudge with her hand against every man and every man's hand against her. The Purple Heights From the other room the slavey came with reddened eyes. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day When he'd gone out, Anna came downstairs, calmly demanded his shirts, and, having the slavey under her thumb, got them, walked off with them, and mended them all. Marcella I have heard from the slavey that a win—a widow lives over dere in those rooms. The Firm of Girdlestone At the third landing a broom and a dirty tangled debris of scrub-cloths lay on the topmost stair, as if an aching slavey had not found the strength to remove them. Every Soul Hath Its Song By training and education I was fitted for nought but what I was, or a general slavey, which was many degrees worse. My Brilliant Career It was with the utmost difficulty that she concealed their destination from the landlady and from the slavey who assisted her in packing the small trunks which held their all. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day One day she heard him imploring the little slavey to put some buttons on his shirts. Marcella We were acquainted with a lodging-house slavey once—a real one, we mean. Stage-Land One might as well inquire of a lodging-house slavey the way to make beds as expect a country bumpkin to know the road to the next village. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Two distinct knocks, sir, will produce the slavey at any time. The Old Curiosity Shop She looked at the poor slavey with the kind eyes of a princess gazing at a weeping subject, whose suffering has come through loyalty, and kindly smiled. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day The lodging-house slavey had aroused him by coming to light the fire. The Dawn of a To-morrow The lodging-house slavey brushes her hair with the boot brush and blacks the end of her nose with it. Stage-Land When an object could be polished it was forced to shine, no grain of dust was allowed to lie undisturbed, and this perfection was not attained through the ministrations of a lodging house slavey. The Lost Prince The slavey who opened the door was black-faced, white-coated, and his bedraggled skirts were trousers with a line of braid up each seam. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Two of her mistresses, one after the other, had been sold up, and now all the rooms in the neighbourhood were unlet, no one wanted a "slavey," and Esther was obliged to return home. Esther Waters Here, slavey, is the sky," I think; "it becomes romantic for the moment because to you it is the symbol of lost dreams, or happy hours in fields. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Oh, yes; very fine, and be a wretched slavey all your life, if you like that. Fan : the story of a young girl's life "Caitiff, come on, come on!" and he walks off with a tragic laugh, crying, "Ha, ha, ha, 'tis but the slavey!" The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family At the top of a second flight of stairs a slavey sat back on her heels and twisted a dribble of gray water from her cloth into her bucket. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It And at that very minute our slavey, little Ethelbertina, knocked at my bedroom door and gave me a postcard. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel It is not green fields that lured the heavy feet of this slavey. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago But here, before I go farther afield, I must note a main difference between the Welsh Power and the English slavey to whom she corresponded in calling and condition. Seven English Cities The slavey has Mr. Frederick's hot water, and a bottle of sodawater on the same tray. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Steve, the wretched fellow, never had a Man, and Richardson is only his landlady's slavey, aged about fifteen, and wistful at sight of food. Alice Sit-By-The-Fire A slavey, one pre-eminently of the boarding house description, is kicking up a row. Canada for Gentlemen Alive she can think of herself only as Clara, the slavey at whom the boys giggle and call names. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago She had been what is called a 'slavey' but if she had been really a slave her owner would have had some regard for her health and welfare: her 'loving friend' had had none. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists He has been instructed to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pronounced from above. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Shame to make a slavey of you in this way. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land So we went for a walk round by the canal and she told me she was a slavey in a house in Baggot Street. Dubliners "The skivvy—slavey—hired help—get busy," said T. X. impatiently. The Clue of the Twisted Candle Your Roman task-mistresses; your drivers of lodging-house slaveys; your ladies who whipped their pages to death in the Middle Ages; your modern dames of fashion, decked with the plumage of the tortured grove. They and I She is a young lady typical of the Cockney slavey type, dressed according to the ideas of her class as regards the perfect lady. The Master of Mrs. Chilvers Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slicking specimen of the London slavey. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English "There's nothing to touch a good slavey," he affirmed. Dubliners He would knock on yonder window and ask the beautiful lady slavey for a bit of her supper! The Drums of Jeopardy Mamie Calligan and her mother were adoring slaveys, so she was not entirely out of the atmosphere which she craved and to which she was accustomed. The Financier, a novel And truly I saw Johnny Upright, and his good wife and fair daughters, and frowzy slavey, like so many ghosts flitting eastward through the gloom, the monster city roaring at their heels. The People of the Abyss But she was an entirely different looking girl from the boarding house slavey whom Hiram remembered so keenly back in Crawberry. Hiram the Young Farmer When the anemic little boarding-house slavey with the beauty-loving soul had fetched the green jar, I placed the shining stems in it with gentle fingers. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Ashamed to face Mrs. Peedles or even the slavey, I kept to my room, with the door locked. Paul Kelver, a Novel She was an orphan, adopted by her aunt, and was general slavey and scape-goat to the family—especially to the brats, as is often the case. Over the Sliprails Some of the people in this street are even so well-to-do as to keep a “slavey.” The People of the Abyss And as for "Sister," Mrs. Atterson's little slavey and maid-of-all-work—— "Well, Sister's the limit!" smiled Hiram, as he turned into the street, with its rows of ugly brick houses on either hand. Hiram the Young Farmer And here to the doorstep came the “slavey,” very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen. The People of the Abyss I hated the poor little slavey who, bursting joyously into the room, would hold them out to me from between her apron-hidden thumb and finger; her chronic sniff I translated into contempt. Paul Kelver, a Novel In the dim passage stood the small slavey, holding out a note. Paul Kelver, a Novel To Johnny Upright’s house I came, and to the door came the “slavey.” The People of the Abyss But how different she was from the starved-looking, boarding house slavey! Hiram the Young Farmer Mrs. Peedles, our landlady, who slept in the basement with the slavey, had been an actress in Charles Keane's company at the old Princess's. Paul Kelver, a Novel She crushes past the little "slavey," and approaching, eyes me critically. Paul Kelver, a Novel |
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