The only intelligence the invalid received was from the gossip of two housemaids over their work in the next room.
At the spanking pace at which, in accordance with his own directions, he is getting over the ground, he will reach the Castle by eight o'clock, just as the housemaids are beginning to open the shutters and clean the grates.
Richard agreed that it might be; the housekeeper at Raynham, half the women cooks, and all the housemaids enjoyed that name; the name of Mary was equivalent for women at home.
There is not a staircase in the place, there is no danger of fire, no want of ventilation, and very little work for housemaids or charwomen.
Now thehousemaids swear that they always found it closed and it is their belief that his lordship used to lock her ladyship in her rooms before retiring to his own quarters for the night.
Such friends as he had would never pry into his private concerns; and as for housemaids and waiters and porters, the whole matter to them was unintelligible.
The universe had an uncared-for, unswept appearance, like a house surprised at dawn, before the housemaidsare up.
The latter come across the Mopke in their neat livery and follow the housemaids and footmen, who enter with smiling bows and range themselves round the table on which stands the tree.
It also served to perpetuate the name of Sterbe-Zimmer or Death-room, always used by the housemaids in reference to this apartment, which was otherwise as gay and sunny as any in the Palace.
When the last of the procession had vanished we were all driven out at once, and an army of housemaids with brooms entered and began to sweep up the dirt and litter which the people had left behind.
An excellent mistress, and a very kind one, has told me that housemaids and kitchenmaids have given her warning again and again for no other cause than this.
As far as boarding went I was better off just then, for my fame as a teacher had spread in the lower classes of Jewish society, and it was chiefly to cooks and housemaids I gave lessons in reading and writing.
From cooks and housemaids my reputation spread to the young ladies, or rather to the lady of the house.
Only housemaids don't wear gloves and all-over aprons and mobcaps," replied Mollie.
Two neat housemaids were engaged in unpacking their things and placing them in the drawers of the massive highboys and wardrobes.
Yes, certainly, but you must leave the room to the housemaids for an hour or two," Madelene replied.
Her glance fell on the toilet-glass--it was a large, handsome one, which Madelene had directed the housemaids to put in place of the smaller one really belonging to the room.
Ladies'- maids and smart housemaids had sneered at him, and made him feel himself a hopeless, vulgar little worm who never would "get on.
Housemaids and still-room maids would giggle, and kitchen-maids and boot-boys would grin and whisper in servile tribute to the witticisms of the superior servants.
The housemaids parley at the gate, The scullions on the stair, And in the footmen's grave debate The butler deigns to share.
Such was the stuff of the Malakoff-takers, Such were the soldiers that scaled the Redan; Truculent housemaids and bloodthirsty Quakers, Brave not the wrath of the sweet little man!
The housemaids were busy turning out all the furniture, sweeping and dusting, polishing and cleaning.
We had for some time heard the housemaids overhead coughing, occasionally speaking, and we thought they had got up and had come down to her room.
So, his heart beating with some uncontrollable excitement, and her heart filled with smoldering rage, they descended the staircase, arm in arm, to the admiration of peeping housemaids and the pride of her own maid.
It did not even strike Turner, or James, that her clothes were what none of the housemaids would have considered fit to wear when they went out.
Failing these reforms, mistresses will probably continue to find themselves obliged to put up with cooks who cannot cook, and housemaids and laundresses who are both ignorant and incompetent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housemaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
