Salute the bedmaker in my name — give my service to the cook, and pray take care of poor Ponto, for the sake of his old master, who is, and ever will be, ❋ Unknown (2004)
The bedmaker, Simon Thorpe, indeed complained of the aftertaste of deviltry in Barton's rooms, and he left the college the night before last. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Simon Thorpe, 'e were bedmaker for E Staircase on Third Court and did Dr. Barton's rooms,' e come in the kitchen where me an 'Joe was cutting watercress, an' 'e were white like a ghost. ❋ Unknown (2002)
"And the smell of smoke and brimstone, which so alarmed the bedmaker?" ❋ Unknown (2002)
Granted, I'm terrible at making beds, so that's not saying much when comparing to me, but put her daymaking skills against the Swedish champion bedmaker in a frenzied contest of making and mocking and many more m-words, and she'd still win. ❋ Bard (2002)
The melancholy business of hoisting the bedmaker aloft called for the combined effort of all three men. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Now, as the servant was a Cambridge girl, and had a brother a _gyp_, or bedmaker, at one of the colleges, besides her uncle keeping the tennis court there, I have often thought there must have been some college legend or tradition in Alma Mater, of Mother Grey and her apples. ❋ Various (N/A)
Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much, which was not polite of him. ❋ Unknown (1924)
Last night the bedmaker from W said to me, 'What are you doing to my gentlemen? ❋ Unknown (1924)
"And who's to wash it up?" said the bedmaker to her help outside. ❋ Unknown (1924)
His bedmaker, equally peevish, explained how it had happened. ❋ Unknown (1924)
Then the bedmakers began to arrive, chatting to each other pleasantly, and he could hear Ansell's bedmaker say, "Oh dang!" when she found she had to lay Ansell's tablecloth; for there was not a breath stirring. ❋ Unknown (1924)
Father Abbey was a bedmaker and sweeper at Harvard College for many years. ❋ Unknown (1902)
'I am a true American,' said Racksole, 'but my father, who began by being a bedmaker at an Oxford college, and ultimately made ten million dollars out of iron in Pittsburg -- my father took the wise precaution of having me educated in England. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
And as for the demi-woman David, he had been informed as peremptorily as Pharaoh's baker that the office of housemaid and bedmaker was taken from him, and would be given to this girl till the wedding was over, and Bob's wife took the management into her own hands. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Often had Maitland regretted the chronic cold and handkerchiefless condition of his bedmaker; but now her sniff was welcome as music, much more so than that of two hunting horns which ambitious sportsmen were trying to blow in quad. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Writing down an [agenda] [every day] at school is [an act] of bedmaking. ❋ Mr. Twinkieface (2021)
[See] [definition] of Gillian-style bedmaking ❋ Supernurse Janet (2008)
