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Example sentences for "chambermaids"

Lexicographically close words:
chambering; chamberlain; chamberlains; chamberleine; chambermaid; chambers; chambray; chambre; chambres; chamel
  1. And shew this lady another room, and send two or three chambermaids to attend to her.

  2. D---- all pins for dropping upon the floor and the chambermaids for not picking them up, and my own feet for treading on them.

  3. For the first time chambermaids often drank champagne and wore on their heads lop-sided creations of expensive millinery with confident awkwardness--creations which they said came from Paris.

  4. All I see is chambermaids who shout at me some kind of devilish dialect that a fellow can't understand.

  5. It is evident that Monsieur is not accustomed to such chambermaids as I, that I astonish him, and that I have made a great impression on him at the start.

  6. And besides, I have called all my chambermaids Marie.

  7. Never did he pass the most insignificant woman without taking off his hat to her; and I mean chambermaids whom he knew to be such.

  8. Up to seven years of age the child passes her time with chambermaids who teach her only a little catechism, "with an infinite number of ghost stories.

  9. The belfry-fountain was humming like a swarm of bees as all the chambermaids and goodwives in the street rushed up to fill their pitchers at the very moment when Le Tellier's housemaid happened to be filling hers.

  10. The worthy gentleman had just ordered in a fresh tumbler of his favourite liquor, when we wished him good-night, and slept by no means the worse, because the bedroom candle was carried by one of the prettiest young chambermaids possible.

  11. And, as far as waiters and chambermaids were concerned, I have generally found that my first impressions were correct enough.

  12. But I never had anybody to deal with except waiters and chambermaids and the Ashburnhams, with whom I didn't know that I was having any dealings.

  13. This made me call to mind a saying of the venerable abbot of Castilliers, the very same who never cared to hump his chambermaids but when he was in pontificalibus.

  14. Thither she went, and the dogs after her; she ran to hide herself, but the chambermaids could not abstain from laughing.

  15. The two chambermaids being again left alone, began a second bout at altercation, which soon produced a combat of a more active kind.

  16. Our crested chambermaids and bootblacks have been a great help to me.

  17. In these days of titled chambermaids I think we shall worry along pretty well without William.

  18. Also two other chambermaids had gathered to talk of the scream that had shot through the house.

  19. When he was dressed and in the hall he surprised the chambermaids at their sweeping.

  20. Chambermaids are not allowed to flirt with customers in this hotel.

  21. Much at times depends on him; also on chambermaids and waiters.

  22. In the Northern cities, white chambermaids are rather better paid than in Southern, as colored servants are preferred in the South.

  23. Chambermaids in the United States may be classed under three heads: those in hotels, those in private families, and those on steamboats.

  24. In families, the prices for chambermaids are about the same as at hotels, and of course the duties are pretty much the same, except that in families all of a chambermaid's time is expected.

  25. The usual wages of chambermaids in cities are from $1.

  26. Some chambermaids at hotels take a few lessons, to enable them to dress hair plainly.

  27. Then she would ring the bell and summon all the chambermaids within call to come and admire; and Geoffrey would stand among all these womenfolk, listening to the chorus of "Mon Dieu!

  28. She bought kimonos by the dozen, and spent hours trying them on amid a chorus of admiring chambermaids and waitresses, a chorus specially trained by the hotel management in the difficult art of admiring foreigners' purchases.

  29. Matters went on very nicely, with the exception of experiencing considerable trouble in getting good chambermaids and table-waiters.

  30. To reach our dining room we had to pass through the large room where the chambermaids ate.

  31. Even they, those female chambermaids and launderers, see more or less of working menfolk during the day.

  32. After some ten days my large fat friend from the help's pantry informed me that she and I weren't supposed to be there—the recreation room was only for chambermaids and like as not any day we'd find the door locked.

  33. Several chambermaids were waiting around the recreation room the few moments before the meeting.

  34. Except, indeed, for chambermaids and laundry workers, where the traditionally female fields of bed-making and washing have not been usurped by the male.

  35. Among the household servants the cooks were black dolls, the chambermaids were china dolls, and the others seemed mostly made of wood, although there was one elderly doll that was clearly papier-mache.

  36. The servants of the household loudly applauded this speech, and one of the chambermaids clapped her hands so earnestly that she broke off one of her little fingers.

  37. Dot rose at once and sat on the Queen's right hand, while all the household applauded again; but this time the china chambermaids were more careful of their fingers.

  38. The chambermaids in question number two also.

  39. Your rooms are tucked up, your beds uninviting, your chambermaids frowsy, your waiters stupid, and your little parlor an abomination.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chambermaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.