Martha and Miss Barry's trusty handmaiden were to do the housekeeping.
Miss Honoria Barry and her small niece lived together, with a tall and gaunt handmaiden Norman French, and a broad Yorkshire gardener.
Here we see the imperative necessity to Life, of life's twin sister, Death; in their immense strife there is harmony; destruction is the handmaiden of preservation.
The fair handmaiden had now resumed her retreat; so that Larry, having raised himself from his lowly hiding-place, was obliged to follow for some twenty yards before he again came up with her.
Now when it was about midnight, the handmaiden revived and looking around and about her, cried, "Where am I?
Our object has been to display in their truer colors a people as little understood as it is studiously misrepresented by a host of writers, who forget that the pen is the handmaiden of truth.
Queen of Sheba in her service as handmaiden unto me and mine,--gaunt and doleful-eyed, yet stanch and sturdy as of old.
But she quieted the poor handmaidenas simply and easily as a nursing mother quiets her unweaned baby.
After that our little handmaiden was always called Delilah, among the talking Teacups.
Then he struck a hand-bell beside him, and his summons was answered by a small short-skirted handmaiden who had waited table.
I am Elined, handmaiden to the Lady of the Fountain,' was the reply.
Truly, indeed, education has become the handmaiden of merchandising.
Education, of a truth, has become the handmaiden of merchandising.
And the little handmaiden walketh there, But the old Earl pulleth his beard for care.
The King's son walked in the garden fair, And the little handmaiden came, Through the midst of a shimmer of roses red, Like a sunbeam through a flame.
And if it is the case that scarce one is sinless enough to claim even a handmaiden among spirits, who shall take his place with those higher hosts that fill the sky?
It was merely an illustration of the melancholy fact that the heavenly maid of music is too often attended by the handmaiden of discord.
She fancied that she would be like her sisters, the wife of a good business or professional man; the mother of three or four or five healthy children; the keeper of an ideal middle class home; the handmaiden of her husband's needs.
All saw that she was a faithfulhandmaiden to her husband, that she adored the ground he walked on.
If the dead be a woman, let him say: This is Thy handmaiden and the daughter of Thy handmaiden, etc.
Mistress Anne, running up to her room, where her little handmaiden was seated at work.
A maiden of Alftrude's degree could not travel and visit without a featy handmaiden attendant upon her.
The Ladie Alftrude had shed a few tears, and herhandmaiden had made sundry louder lamentations; but the lady was full of heart and courage and hope, nor did the maid lament out of any fear.
Hence this handmaiden of the Devil has now become one of the most gigantic trusts on earth, blooming out into commercial, political, and industrial proportions.
Behold theHandmaiden of the Devil--King Alcohol: the most efficient ally of the "angel of the bottomless pit.
But she was never more charming than when, after dressing and breakfasting in seclusion, and then vigilantly watching her handmaiden through the necessary dustings and arrangements, she sat at last, with her affairs in order, to await events.
The handmaiden was very angry, and in the presence of the household she said words to this effect: Dost thou dare to treat me in this way?
A little later the handmaiden went to the river or canal to fetch some water, and whilst she was filling her pot a crocodile seized her and carried her away and, presumably, ate her.
With the object in her mind of telling the king the handmaiden went to her maternal uncle, whom she found weaving flax on the walk, and told him what had happened, and said she was going to tell the king about the three children.
The handmaidenthought that, if Khufu knew of the views of Rāuser and Rut-tetet about the future of their three sons, and the prophecies of the goddesses, he would kill the children and perhaps their parents also.
I have half a mind to acknowledge myself your convert, Hansford; eschew the gaily bedizzened Glory, and engage your demure little Quaker, Duty, as my handmaiden in her place.
Man, in his actions, is controlled by many forces--and duty is chiefly prized when it waits as the humble handmaiden on glory.
If ever her temper failed her, it was at some misdemeanour of the handmaiden who, for the time, filled the part of general helper in Miss Herschel's household.
