Sentence examples for handmaid from inspiring English sources

Her handmaid is more or less gang-raped by serfs.

A painting of the Annunciation, the scene of Mary's great moment of obedience ("Behold the handmaid of the Lord"), incorporates allusions to Eve's disobedience in Eden.

But, frustrated with Yasser Arafat in his last two years as Palestinian leader, and frightened by the bombing at the Red Sea resort of Taba last October, Egypt is grabbing the chance "to be the handmaid of peace, and show its position in the Arab world," says Shlomo Avineri, an Israeli political scientist.In this section Is the turmoil good or bad for Israel?

Belinsky described the Orthodox church in his famous "Letter to Gogol" (1847) as "the bulwark of the whip and the handmaid of despotism".

In the following seven books, each of the Liberal Arts, including Astronomy, personified as a handmaid to Philology, steps forward to give an account of her art.

The story is framed as a handwritten account of a handmaid (breeder) whose sole purpose in life is to supply babies for infertile wives who are higher in the social hierarchy.

On the surface, this witchy handmaid should be compelling but, while Georgina Pazcoguin dances with gusto, the audience is left unsure of what motivates the character to betray Honorata in the first place and even more confused about why she so swiftly changes her mind.

Islamic philosophy was not a handmaid of theology.

God then addresses the beleaguered Emma by name: "And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else.

Imagine Berkeley as Thales, the old-school philosopher about whom Socrates, in Plato's "Theaetetus," speaks: I will illustrate my meaning, Theodorus, by the jest which the clever witty Thracian handmaid is said to have made about Thales, when he fell into a well as he was looking up at the stars.

Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the 16th President, and Mrs. Keckley, her Negro dressmaker and handmaid.