Sentence examples for maid servant from inspiring English sources

She told her elder brother she wanted a job as a maid servant -- but he forbade such demeaning work.

A maid servant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them; an upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.

Each short story contains an independent theme; "A Maid Servant", for example, takes its inspiration from a book about aging fears, and "miseducation" serves as the theme for a story about cram school, inspired by a book about the inadequacy of solely teaching theories.

"I used to work as a maid servant," she said.

* Students, daily laborer, civil servant, merchant, maid servant, etc. 1 USD= 17.50 Ethiopian currency at the time of survey (2012).

[id.], relating to maid - servants.

She has tackled the household chores that, back home, would be the lot of dhobis and sweepers and, as she puts it, "maid servants".

Before emigrating to England, I began having these bizarre night dreams of becoming laird of the manor, with valets and maid servants bowing submissively to me, dreams that multiplied into wild fantasies of marrying into young Queen Elizabeth's family and taking my rightful place in the order of precedence.

"Many NRIs have dreams of having India as a possible place to retire, where hired maid servants will run their day-to-day tasks while they relax close to friends and family," Singh says.

Thus, these female workers may also take up work as maid servants or as governesses, which may be an alternative but potential source of earning in their native places, and need not be migrants.

And a maid-servant.