cook-maids

Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great Passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together.

Did You Know Bach Had a Father? Victoria Janssen 2009

Mice and blackbeetles and cook-maids had played Old Harry with some cantatas and a vast great Passion according to St Mark, in High Dutch; but lower down all was well, and I brought away several pieces, 'cello for you, fiddle for me, and some for both together.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Even the hideous elder women in Mr. Bottomley's _Lear's Wife_, or his Regan -- an ill-conditioned girl, sidling among the 'sweaty, half-clad cook-maids' after pig-killing,

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

_ Why, Mr Attorney, you might save up this tale for a week; it will be Christmas by that time, and you can frighten your cook-maids with it [at which the people laughed again, and the prisoner also, as it seemed].

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899

She took him to the buttery and gave him over to the cook-maids.

The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

The cook-maids clasped their hands in amazement at the sight of their Generals, so fat, white, and merry!

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

No modern lyceum will ever equal thy glory: whether in soft pastorals thou didst sing the flames of pampered apprentices and coy cook-maids; or mournful ditties of departing lovers; or if to Mæonian strains thou raisedst thy voice, to record the stratagems, the arduous exploits, and the nocturnal scalade of needy heroes, the terror of your peaceful citizens, describing the powerful

English Satires Various 1885

So I went thither, but not finding him there, went down to the kitchen, where I saw a slave-girl, of whom I enquired for him, and she showed him to me lying with one of the cook-maids.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

The butcher boy who galloped his horse and cart madly about the adjoining lanes and commons, whistled wild melodies (caught up in abominable play-house galleries) and joked with a hundred cook-maids, -- on passing that lodge fell into an undertaker's pace, and delivered his joints and sweetbreads silently at the servant's entrance.

History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

For just then, as if catching the contagion from the shrieking of the storm, one of the cook-maids threw herself back into a chair and began to scream.

The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise George Manville Fenn 1870