"maid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Just let Me summon your downstairs maid-" Satan snapped his fingers, and suddenly the maid was there, dustcloth in hand, her hair bound in a kerchief.
- "Teachers are treated like the downstairs maid," he said.
- When she surprised Leon kissing and fondling one of the downstairs maids in the pantry, her ire could not be contained.
- An "assignation" Sara had called it, and in her ignorance Emily had thought of the time Leon had been kissing the downstairs maid in the pantry.
- All I meant to say was that, on hot days, the downstairs maids sometimes go into that sewing closet for their fives.
- One of them, Brigid, the downstairs maid, held a flickering oil lamp that cast slow-moving shadows.
- The day had gone from bad to worse when Martha, the downstairs maid, had succumbed to a bout of the ague.
- When, during dinner, the mistress of the house pressed a foot buzzer, it alerted the downstairs maid, who placed the next course on the dumbwaiter and pulled it up on a pulley rope.
- Sometimes the downstairs maids helped.
- Most of our housing stock was built between 1880-1930 and the kitchen was a small galley - either for the wife or the downstairs maid.
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