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  • Who'd believe a kitchen-girl who told tales about meeting up with Reggie Fenyx in a meadow on odd afternoons to talk, anyway?

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Richard actually detected her in the disguise of a kitchen-girl, at

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • But she laughs the hardest at the picture of the little girl who was so afraid of the turtle, and Edna, the kitchen-girl, told her if the turtle should get hold of the little girl's toe, he wouldn't let go till it thundered.

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • Here, 'she said, stretching out her hand with her contemptuous laugh, and looking down upon the prostrate girl,' is a worthy cause of division between lady-mother and gentleman-son; of grief in a house where she wouldn't have been admitted as a kitchen-girl; of anger, and repining, and reproach.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • On all sides distorted reflections of her image started from his memory: the flower girl in the ragged dress with damp coarse hair and a hoyden's face who had called herself his own girl and begged his handsel, the kitchen-girl in the next house who sang over the clatter of her plates, with the drawl of a country singer, the first bars of BY

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

  • Where had that kitchen-girl learned to stand smiling under all that scorn?

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • I won this, and left the Abbot chuckling, for much as he knows he has not guessed that the goose-girl, the tossed-out kitchen-girl, the scarecrow haunter of the heath, should be sought in marriage.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • "He doesn't mind you any more than he does a kitchen-girl."

    The Errand Boy; or, How Phil Brent Won Success 1888

  • VAUTHIER (Madame), originally, in 1809, kitchen-girl in the household of the Prince de Wissembourg, on the rue Louis-le-Grand; then cook to

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • "He doesn't mind you any more than he does a kitchen-girl."

    The Errand Boy Horatio Alger 1865

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