It may be objected that Laban GAVE handmaids to his daughters, Jacob's wives.
Without enlarging on the nature of the polygamy then prevalent, suffice it to say that the handmaids of wives were regarded as wives, though of inferior dignity and authority.
Without enlarging on the nature of the polygamy then prevalent suffice it to say that the handmaids of wives were regarded as wives, though of inferior dignity and authority.
Without enlarging on the nature of the polygamy then prevalent, it is enough to say that the handmaids of wives, at that time, were themselves regarded as wives, though of inferior dignity and authority.
It may be objected that Laban "GAVE" handmaids to his daughters, Jacob's wives.
Moreover, upon my servants and handmaids in those days I will pour forth my spirit.
Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I will be little in my own eyes: and with thehandmaids of whom thou speakest, I shall appear more glorious.
Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed themselves.
And upon my servants indeed and upon my handmaids will I pour out in those days of my spirit: and they shall prophesy.
And when the handmaids waxed aweary of swimming, the Princess commanded them to come forth the water, and said, "Whenas Heaven willeth that the desire of my heart be fulfilled in this garden, what deem ye I should do with my lover?
When Goldenlocks was seated on the throne of gold and ivory, and her handmaids were posed gracefully about her, playing idly on guitars, Charming was brought in.
You may be sure, however, that she stopped on the way, in the hall of mirrors, to see that she really deserved all the compliments which her handmaids gave her.
Science and Religion are the handmaids of Truth; because both are the children of Divinity, the agents of Light and of Eternal Progress for Man.
Superstition is not Religion; Speculation is not Philosophy; Materialism is not Science; but true religion, true philosophy and true science are ever the handmaids of Truth, and will at last be found in perfect harmony.
And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
When she had brought Asaad into the palace, she opened the windows overlooking the sea and bade her handmaids bring food.
Then Shemsennehar chose out ten handmaids and ten singing-women to attend on them and dismissing the rest to their apartments, bade some of those who remained smite the lute.
Then Shemsennehar signed to a damsel, who went out and returned with handmaids bearing a table, whereon were silver dishes, full of all manner rich meats.
So he ate thereof with all his might and main, till he had gotten his fill, when he called one of the handmaids and said to her, "What is thy name?
Go, then, to thy chamber, and mind thy household affairs, and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks.
When Penelope heard the song, she came down from the upper chamber where she sat, and two handmaids bare her company.
Three years did I deceive them, weaving the web by day, and by night unravelling it; but in the fourth year my handmaids betrayed me.
And a third shall command the goldsmith to gild the horns of the heifer, and let the handmaids prepare all things for a feast.
But now the handmaids shall spread a bed for thee with mattress and blankets that thou mayest sleep warm till morning shall come.
Then Arete bade her handmaids prepare a bed for the stranger.
But Circe knew of our coming, and of what we had done, and she came and stood in our midst, her handmaids coming with her, and bearing flesh and bread and wine in plenty.
Fifty were mine in the hour that the host of Achaia descended: Nineteen granted to me out of one womb, royally mother'd, Stood by my side; but the rest were of handmaids born in my dwelling.
The charge was too monstrous to deceive a single person, but on this pretext Octavia’s handmaids were seized and tortured.
Hence, during the early evening hours, it was possible for her to call one or two of her Christian handmaids around her, while Onesimus, as the Greek reader, read to them the scrolls which Luke had sent as his parting present.
Joseph's account sounded as though the sons of the handmaids were habitually inconsiderate and careless in wasting their father's substance.
When the sons of Leah appeared, Asenath fell down before them, and amid tears she adjured them to spare the sons of the handmaids and not repay with evil the evil they had meditated.
At this moment the sons of the handmaidsthrew themselves upon her and Benjamin with drawn swords.
When she saw the little ark floating among the flags on the surface of the water, she supposed it to contain one of the little children exposed at her father's order, and she commanded her handmaids to fetch it.
On his return he told Jacob that the sons of the handmaids were in the habit of slaughtering the choice cattle of the herd and eating it, without obtaining permission from Judah and Reuben.
The rest may here the pious duty share, And bid the handmaids for the feast prepare, The seats to range, the fragrant wood to bring, And limpid waters from the living spring.
Ministrant to the queen, with busy care Four faithful handmaids the soft rites prepare; Nymphs sprung from fountains, or from shady woods, Or the fair offspring of the sacred floods.
Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers; With all thy handmaids thank the immortal powers; To every god vow hecatombs to bleed.
Suppliant to her, since first he chose to pray, Why not herself did she conduct the way, And with her handmaids to our court convey?
Full fifty handmaids form the household train; Some turn the mill, or sift the golden grain; Some ply the loom; their busy fingers move Like poplar-leaves when Zephyr fans the grove.
Then she bade her handmaids bring meat and drink which was done, and they sat down and ate till they had enough, after which they sat drinking.
The beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the United States and Canada.
To the beloved of God and the handmaids of the Merciful in the East and in the West.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the West.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the East and West.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout America.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout America, care of the members of the American National Spiritual Assembly.
The beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the Continent of America: Dear friends: I return to the Holy Land with an overpowering sense of the gravity of the spiritual state of the Cause in the world.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful through the West.
To the beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful, the accredited delegates to the Annual Convention of America, Chicago, Illinois.
So she dismissed them all, with the exception of two of her handmaids who were most in favour with her.
He speaks, too, of splendid beds; and such is the bed which Arete orders her handmaids to prepare for Ulysses.
The handmaids immediately terrified the priest with the news of his arrival, and pushed him into the trunk like his predecessor.
When she had said this, she blew out the light, and the merchant, like the others, on the pretext of a bath was anointed by the handmaids for a long time with lamp-black.
The simpleton agreed to that, and was taken by the handmaids into a secret dark inner apartment.
The handmaids made use of his arrival to alarm the magistrate and bundled him also into the trunk, and fastened it on the outside.
Surrounded with clustering bees" may also mean, "surrounded with handmaidswhose consolations worried her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handmaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
