Then the Maidcame into the kitchen, saw the salad standing ready, and was about to put it on the table.
Then let him come up,' said Mrs. Reynard, and ordered the maid to make ready the wedding feast.
The Maid answered-- 'In chamber sad she sits alone, And ceases not with grief to moan.
THE MAID AT THE TABLE The waitress should serve and remove everything, except beverages and extra silver from the guest's left.
If a maid serves, she should always have an extra plate, one more than the number of individuals to be served.
That is to say, a servant-maid would, I suppose, simply walk in and be married; and I shall do the same.
There may, perhaps, be a time in which Imogene Docimer as a sturdy oldmaid shall be respected and serene of mind.
When the maid came to her she consented to have the frock put on, the frock which Sir Harry had given her, boldly resolving to struggle through her sorrow till Lady Albury should have dismissed her to her home.
She did, however, at last succeed in persuading the chamber-maid to furnish her with a carpet-bag, with which in her custody she arrived safely on the following day at Merle Park.
They arrive in an automobile this afternoon--mademoiselle and her father, the maid and the chauffeur.
Under the care of the hunters Atalanta grew into a maiden, with all the beauty of a maid and all the strength and the courage of a man.
On this tree grew golden apples, and Aphrodite plucked three of them and gave them to the youth who had not feared to ask her to aid him to win the maid he loved.
In torture his gallant spirit passed away, uncomplaining, loving through his pain the maid for whose dear sake he had brought woe upon himself.
The maidgave a cry of terror, but there was no evil thing in the face of Perseus.
She did not, therefore, believe what the maid had reported, but still her anxiety and suspense were great, especially about her father.
Mr. Ossulton's gentleman, and the lady's-maid of Miss Ossulton.
Cecilia was sad, and her heart was beating with anxiety and suspense, when the maid rushed in.
As they drew near the cow suddenly gave a kick and kicked over the stool, the pail, and even the milk-maid herself, all falling on the china ground with a great clatter.
But the pretty milk-maid was much too vexed to make any answer.
As she left them the milk-maid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.
They began walking through the country of the china people, and the first thing they came to was a china milk-maid milking a china cow.
Dorothy was shocked to see that the cow had broken her leg short off, and that the pail was lying in several small pieces, while the poor milk-maid had a nick in her left elbow.
When I returned I inquired for Miss Garnier, and was told by the maid that she had gone to her bedroom, and that she had asked the groom to bring her motor-bicycle to the door.
Then I rang the bell, and told the maid that I must see Mr. Murreyfield at once.
The other two steamers which we blew up that day, the Maid of Athens (Robson Line) and the Cormorant, were neither of them provided with apparatus, and came blindly to their destruction.
It soon began to seem to Lydia that this little fool of a maid of hers was a great person.
And His Honor added, as if the two remarks had nothing to do with each other, "I shall give this unfortunate maid a very light sentence.
The sight of the room made him vividly aware of the intimacy of daily detail that any maid has in regard to her mistress--two women, and one going through hell.
The maid gave a little cry as if she herself had suffered a loss.
THE judge, both maid and servants, questioned much; But not a hint he got, their care was such.
The maid exclaimed: when such a lover sues, How can a woman any thing refuse?
THE maid at this proposal felt surprise; Her mistress truly!
To give the dog our pilgrim was desired; But though he would not grant the thing required; He whispered to the maid the price he'd take, And some proposals was induced to make.
And there was need of haste--a little maid in hard case at Ragged Run and a rising cloud threatening black weather.
The maid cried softly in the curtains to the king's sweetheart, that his lordship was there, and jumped into bed, while her mistress went out as if she had been the chambermaid.
Believing herself alone with her maid she made those little jokes that women will when undressing.
Fine sir," said the abbot, "know you what this maid is worth?
An old man, who was working on the banks, told him she was called the Pretty Maidof Portillon, a laundress, celebrated for her merry ways and her virtue.
Let us to look after the cow," said the silversmith, raising her, without daring yet to kiss her, although the maid was well disposed to it.
And she gave to her maid a bottle of wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and cheese, and went out.
And Judith spoke to her maid to stand without before the chamber, and to watch: 13:6.
And she took and ate and drank before him what her maidhad prepared for her.
Then Vagao went in to Judith, and said: Let not my good maid be afraid to go in to my lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that she may eat with him and drink wine and be merry.
Not so fast," said the prince, "I shall not marry the maid before I know whether I like her.
The youth was incensed at this refusal; he resented the contempt, as if he had asked some maid of ordinary extraction, or as if his birth had been equal to mine.
He stood amazed; and since he could then try whether the maidwas as chaste as fair, he pulled out his glass, which remained bright and unsullied.
The servant maid came down without any light, and opening the door, asked what they wanted.
You seek after a great rarity," replied the muezin; "and I should be apt to fear your search would prove unsuccessful, did I not know where there is a maid of that character.
After her he brought a citizen's daughter; and, in a word, there was every day a maid married, and a wife murdered.
In the mean time, the maid told the doctor, that a man and woman waited for him at the door, desiring he would come down and look at a sick man whom they had brought with them, and clapped into his hand the money she had received.
Lady Charlotte's maid came in to say that Miss Ford would join her.
I have just sent mymaid for Georgiana; she will sleep here.
The little maid served them a dainty meal, and the round-eyed baby fell asleep as they ate and talked, lying in blissful content in a white-enameled contrivance that was like a crib on four wheels, and sucking quietly on his bottle.
By the time she had finished, the four girls had joined them on the terrace and presently a table was brought out and spread with a cloth, and, Mrs. Littell following the maid with a silver coffee urn, breakfast was served.
Usually there is a maid on this train, they told us, but she was taken sick, and there wasn't time to get any one to fill her place.
The house was tastefully furnished, and a white-capped maid could be seen hovering over the table as they went upstairs.
The girls will want to go into town to-day, I suppose," said the motherly lady, selecting the brownest muffin for Betty and signaling her husband to see that the maid served her an extra portion of omelet.
A maid answered his ring--a maid well past middle-age, with gray hair, and an air of authority.
Went out, the maid said, with no hat on and a letter in her hand--for the post.
And Hattie Balcome, first chapter, and first verse, reads: 'Can a maid forget her manners?
The earldom of Shrewsbury had been bestowed, in the fifteenth century, on John Talbot, the antagonist of the Maid of Orleans.
A ballad in the Pepysian collection contains the following lines "I liked the place beyond expressing, I ne'er saw a camp so fine, Not a maid in a plain dressing, But might taste a glass of wine.
She had hardly spoken, when a maid in peasant costume entered, saying: 'The master of the Linden Inn sends to ask whether the Frau Pastorin can spare time to see him?
Then came Bors to the maid and said: How seemeth it to you of this knight ye be delivered at this time?
And if I help not the maid she is shamed for ever, and also she shall lose her virginity the which she shall never get again.
Her Welsh maid has left her under suspicious circumstances, and has carried off some articles.
Here, to show what dainty creatures were our lady ancestors, to show from what beef and blood and bone we come, I give you (keep your eye meanwhile upon the wonderful dresses) the daily allowance of a Maid of Honour.
The running footman knocks on a certain door, and delivers to the pretty maid a note for her ladyship from a handsome, well-shaped youth who frequents the coffee-houses about Charing Cross.
Her maid is a deal more simple; her hair is dressed very plainly, a loop by the ears, a twist at the nape of the neck.
Why, the woman stays in bed every morning until eleven o'clock and then the maidbrings her something like chocolate on a tray.
When at last the maid had withdrawn again, Gerty, pausing before Laura in a shimmer of silver gauze that reminded one of a faintly scented moonlight, bent over and touched her cheek with feverish lips.
The Irish maid waited upon him with a solicitude in which he read his pose of a deserted husband, and he tried with a forcible, though silent, bravado to dispel her very evident assumption.
Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some, that he was begot between two stock-fishes.
This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first affection; his unjust unkindness, that in all reason should have quenched her love, hath, like an impediment in the current, made it more violent and unruly.
What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid from the world!
Never could the strumpet, With all her double vigour, art and nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid Subdues me quite.
The maid will I frame and make fit for his attempt.
This being granted in course- and now follows all: we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up your appointment, go in your place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
