The magistrate, in his own mind, could not help thinking that a daughter of his former parlourmaid was hardly a match for his son, but on the other hand it might make a man of him.
In this she found an unexpected ally in the person of Lieutenant Heidt, the magistrate's son, an old acquaintance from the days when Cilia had been parlourmaid at the house.
About nine o’clock her parlourmaid came in and told her Captain Carden wished to see her on important business.
That they could ever live with a plain cook and a house-parlourmaid and pay their debts never occurred to them.
Then she rang the bell for the parlourmaid and relinquished to her the tablet; the peculiar rite was over.
Three languorous women and the erect and motionless parlourmaid behind the door were waiting for him.
A trim parlourmaid came out and, after a few words of explanation, superintended the disposal of her luggage in the hall.
A parlourmaidentered with tea, a few minutes later, and Granet moved to his hostess' side upon the sofa.
He wants water," she said to the parlourmaid who was hurrying out of the house.
Sydney, who was making a disdainful, squinting face at Theodore, and told the parlourmaid to clear the plates for sweets.
The parlourmaid presently brought in a sheet of typewritten paper, saying that it had been left at the door by a police sergeant.
As she passed Gertrude's deserted sitting-room on her way to the staircase, she saw that the parlourmaid had lit a useless lamp there.
A parlourmaid directed them to the garden; a gardener volunteered the suggestion that his master might be in the old well-house and showed the way.
Ransford touched a bell and summoning the parlourmaid told her to fetch whisky, soda, and cigars.
In the exuberance of his rapture, Mr. Prentice also invited the parlourmaid to drink Mrs. Marsden's health.
Mary the parlourmaid had a very bad cold, and Yates had ventured to allow her to go to bed.
Her hasty ring brought the parlourmaid quickly on the scene, and that worthy held up her hands in horror at the dreadful state of the carpet.
She was mentally deciding what it would be best to say, when the door opened, and the trim parlourmaid appeared.
Mrs. Beauchamp was out for a drive, so the parlourmaid came up to Monica for a message.
Susan saw me,' Rose said, and the elderly parlourmaid entered at that moment with the teapot.
I must say the click carries a good way, so I tell the parlourmaid to shut the windows.
I became as anxious as a parlourmaid at a keyhole to know what Madame would have to say to this twenty-stone husband, and, what particular terms of endearment he would choose for his reply.
There was the landaulette as empty as a box of chocolates when the parlourmaid has done with them.
At that moment theparlourmaid came to say that Lady Honoria and the "gentleman" were waiting for dinner.
In the middle of the prayers--which Effie did not remember as well as she might have done--the parlourmaidarrived again.
A trim parlourmaidopened it after a few minutes' delay.
Then, after he had shaken hands with Janet and Tom, they all stood together on the hearthrug waiting, so Radmore supposed, for the parlourmaid to come in and announce dinner.
All I know is that Ada's a perfectly good parlourmaid fit to wait on anybody.
Now she could go on believing for the rest of her life that if Jasmine had stayed she would have had her way and turned her into a temporary parlourmaid for the benefit of the Grand Duchess.
I have it: you shall act as parlourmaid when the Grand Duchess comes!
They have taken the car to Howards End," said the parlourmaid to Leonard.
When the parlourmaid came he could not see her face; the brown rain had descended suddenly.
He had it in his mind to invite the sympathetic parlourmaid to accompany him.
She had also settled to have a cold lunch to-day, so that her cook as well as her parlourmaid could devote themselves to the job.
But though one portion of her mind was repeating this with nervous levity, the other was full of concern for the number of journeys up and down all those stairs the parlourmaid was being obliged to make.
The parlourmaid looked hard at what she saw, leaving what she didn't see to take care of itself.
The noise he made horrified the parlourmaidas much as it did him.
Feeling an arm put round his shoulder he thought the parlourmaid hadn't gone to carry out his order, but had gone mad instead.
There was the parlourmaid hovering, and one couldn't anyhow go into explanations now which ought to have been made four days ago.
This sudden end to his remarks startled Lucy, and she repeated in her surprise--for there still stood the parlourmaid 'Kiss you?
The parlourmaid ceased putting it on to Lizzie and was dumb.
I knew that Ezekiel Mucklow has been walking out with Mr. Hamlin’s parlourmaid for five years.
A bouncing parlourmaid entered with the belated letters and the Westminster Gazetter, which arrived by post, some three hours ahead of the daily papers—another Hamlin grievance.
Prudence pumped the facts out of the bouncing parlourmaid at the Vicarage.
Parlourmaid wanted for Sussex; under parlourmaid kept; Roman Catholic and spectacles objected to.
Phyllis was obliged to use a little room on the first floor for meals, on account of the lower part of the house being so overrun; and the poor parlourmaid spent her entire time in answering the door.
Rushing back into the hall, I collided with that pert little parlourmaid who answers the door.
It was he who played both the parlourmaidand the host.
Finally, the procession of human beings and vehicles moved, munitioned, provisioned, like a caravan setting forth into the desert, the parlourmaid amiably waving adieux.
She was very feminine and provocative and unparlourmaidish, standing there in the hall, and George passed by her as callously as though she had been a real parlourmaid on duty.
George ran to the door, which the feverish parlourmaid had neglected to shut.
At half-past ten he sent the parlourmaid to get a taxi.
The housekeeper's daughter, a girl who played at being parlourmaidin the afternoons and brought bad tea and thick bread-and-butter to the privileged in the office, opened the front door with bridling exclamations of astonishment.
The parlourmaid wore her immutable uniform, and the nursemaid wore her immutable uniform.
The parlourmaid (a delightful creature who was, unfortunately, soon to make an excellent match above her station) amiably helped the nursemaid to get the perambulator down the steps.
His ring at the front door was answered by the pretty parlourmaid who had been dusting the hall before breakfast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parlourmaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
