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Example sentences for "barmaid"

Lexicographically close words:
barky; barl; barley; barleys; barm; barmaids; barman; barn; barnacle; barnacled
  1. Ginger waited about outside for nearly a couple of hours, and at last they came out, talking and larfing, with Peter wearing a white rose wot the barmaid 'ad given 'im.

  2. Call Mr. Pickwick's servant, Tom,' said the barmaid of the George and Vulture.

  3. The barmaid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor; in return for which he had (merely in playfulness) drawn his bayonet, and wounded the girl in the shoulder.

  4. Show him up,' said the barmaid to a waiter, without deigning another look at the exquisite, in reply to his inquiry.

  5. It was just upon time to open, and the barmaid had got her Sunday out.

  6. Polly the barmaid had no niece or nephew that he knew of, in the early days.

  7. For a moment I wondered whether he had married the barmaid rather for what she symbolized than for what in herself she was.

  8. Wife had been a barmaid at Cambridge; married her when he was nineteen.

  9. If you would only look after the bottles--of course the barmaid is there for the purpose--but it would do you good.

  10. This is the tap-room," the barmaid replied.

  11. The mayor was not at home; he had just gone out into the fields, the barmaid told him.

  12. Without a word of greeting he walked to the buffet, behind which a barmaid sat knitting a stocking, and inquired if he could speak a few words with the mayor.

  13. The barmaid stood behind his chair and stammered something about the excellent quality of Schrandener beer.

  14. The Kellner and the barmaid whispered to each other outside the door their astonishment at such proceedings on the part of a Regius Professor of the ancient university of Kleinplatz.

  15. They had still more to whisper about afterwards, for the learned man cracked the Kellner's crown, and kissed the barmaid behind the kitchen door.

  16. She had been employed as barmaid at a hotel, and had met Wyck and fallen in love with him, and after arranging to be married, he had thrown her over.

  17. He will tip the man, and ask him if there are any good-looking girls there, and he will be told that old Ford won't have a barmaid about the place, and is fearfully particular.

  18. Speaking as a consumer of fermented liquors," the invalid remarked, "I wish I had a barmaid and a bottle of champagne before me now.

  19. A woman who has been barmaid at a public-house is a woman not easily found at the end of her resources.

  20. She's in distressed circumstances, poor thing; and she's a barmaid somewhere in the north of England.

  21. Have you come back here to be my barmaid again?

  22. Being at the time an officer of the Royal Navy, he appears to have outraged the feelings of his family by marrying a barmaid at a public-house.

  23. The barmaid who waited upon us was in curl-papers, but she was even then as pretty if not prettier than the barmaid at the public in Angel Court, and that is saying a good deal.

  24. We, however, saw a very pretty barmaid at the public in Angel Court.

  25. As we rested, Mr. Hawkins told the barmaid and me how Rogue Riderhood came to this very public, through that same doorway, just after he had his Alfred David took down by the Governors Both.

  26. But on this occasion he forgot all about the Grey Mare, and Popsie the barmaid did not come into his mind for even a second.

  27. The barmaid stood up, seized a glass and a cloth, and began to polish the glass with vigor.

  28. It was a great thing to become part owner of a vessel in those days when large dividends were so easily made, and a small share very often led up to considerable fortune.

  29. They were paid in some cases nine to twelve pounds a voyage, which occupied on an average four weeks.

  30. They were not merely thrifty, but ambitious.

  31. The Cambo post-mistress and the Dax barmaid are not the only people who boast of having been taken in by Alfonso XIII.

  32. Pleased with her successful morning's trade and encouraged by the King's ebullient good-humour, the barmaid sat down at the royal table, and began to tell the King her family affairs and questioned him with maternal solicitude.

  33. The Kellner and the barmaid whispered to each other outside the door their astonishment at such proceedings on the part of a Regius Professor of the ancient university of Keinplatz.

  34. The barmaid nodded meditatively as she flicked the flies from a pile of stale rusks.

  35. The station-master put on his red cap, the barmaid began to wipe with a duster the glass case protecting the cheese and other viands, and a couple of postmen crunched over the gravel, wheeling trucks containing letter-bags and parcels.

  36. The waiters burst out laughing, while the barmaid banged her metal tray against the counter.

  37. But also it presented the barmaid in a new light.

  38. In the refreshment-room at a London terminus late at night I have seen a barmaid collect the sprigs of wilted parsley from the tired sandwiches and sad hard eggs, and put it all in a teacup with a little water.

  39. She went out about half-past eight o'clock, the barmaid says--how could she be there?

  40. I'm sure; Alice the barmaid knew and others.

  41. The barmaid nodded; she quite understood that her mistress was going out to meet the young squire from Stourton Grange.

  42. The barmaid hesitated, and then glanced at Henderson's changing face.

  43. Before Elsie Wray quitted the Wayside Inn, however, she had a word to say to the young barmaid who had brought her the message that the groom from Stourton Grange wished to speak to her.

  44. Beauty smiles at me from common things, All the way from Fleet Street to the Strand; Even in the song the barmaid sings I have found a fresh enchanted land.

  45. Those that remain are mere drinking-places; you can, if you wish, get a dusty sandwich, but the barmaid regards you as an idiot if you ask for one.

  46. Well, you told me yourself, when I was making every such an ass of myself about the barmaid at Redhill, that you once offered a woman fifty pounds for the letters you wrote to her when-- REV.

  47. It's only some fresh folly, like the barmaid at Redhill.

  48. The barmaid who served him was--like most of these Slaves of the Still in this part of London--an extremely handsome girl.

  49. The barmaid at Wordingham, Molly what's-her-name whom all the local bloods were after, had said just the same thing about Ingworth.

  50. Oh, I said you meant well," Ingworth answered with quick impertinence, and then, afraid of what he had done hurriedly drained the second glass which the barmaid had just brought him.

  51. The poor barmaid went to bed that night in an excellent humour, for the two lads Lothian had seen brought her some pairs of gloves.

  52. The barmaid and her assistant enjoyed their brief minutes of feverish contact with the great world.

  53. The remainder of the company soon followed; the barmaid disappeared from the bar, and her assistant was left languidly to watch a solitary pair of topers who would certainly not leave till the clock showed eleven.

  54. The barmaid pushed a second tray over the counter, and Tommy drew up a chair and waved us into three others.

  55. Jenny was a barmaid at the "Golden Crown.

  56. Man alive, you're not going to marry the barmaid of the "Golden Crown"?

  57. The only Jenny Bush I've ever heard of was a rather pretty little barmaid in Fleet Street.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barmaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barmaid; bartender; bootlegger; moonshiner; publican; vintner