Elspeth did not think it proper to notice these discontented expressions of Tibbie, but they sunk into her mind; for she was apt to consider her as a sort of authority in matters of war and policy, with which her former experience as bower-woman at Avenel Castle made her better acquainted than were the peaceful inhabitants of Halidome. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For though I was but her bower-woman, I was of the same clan as my lady, and had served in her family all my life. ❋ Elizabeth Wilson Grierson (1908)
` Two small alcoves for sleeping be on the right, for yourself and your bower-woman; you have been looked for of long time, and she awaiteth you. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
And foremost among these was Isoult Avery, who for two years had been bower-woman to the Viscountess, in those old days when she sat in the purple as Governess of Calais. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
The first was from Beatrice Dynham [fictitious persons], who had been her fellow bower-woman with the Duchess of Suffolk, and requested her old friend to remember her in the first week in May, when she was to marry ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
"And I am but now looking for a bower-woman," said Isoult. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
Lady Foljambe, with a low reverence, assured his Grace that she had been entirely unaware, like Amphillis herself, that her bower-woman could claim even remote kindred with so exalted a house and so dignified a person; and that in future she should assume the position proper to her birth. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
The fancy that the Countess of Cornwall might not like her whole life, so far as it was known, laid bare to her new bower-woman was one which never troubled the mind of Dame La Theyn. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
For some days, at her husband's desire, Isoult had been on the look-out for a bower-woman to replace Jennifer. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
"When shall my mistress your friend be wed, Mrs Avery?" very gravely inquired Jennifer Trevor, Isoult's bower-woman. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
Vanity and thinking of nought but gew-gaws and finery and looking out for admiration, don't go to make a bower-woman such as a noble lady like yourself might wish to have in her household. ❋ Emma Marshall (1864)
One of her gentlewomen is summoned to her father's deathbed, and Mistress Crawley, her bower-woman, needs help. ❋ Emma Marshall (1864)
Long ago, when a young girl, Isel had been chamberer, or bower-woman, of a lady named Mildred de Hameldun; and she still received occasional visits from Mildred's daughter, whose name was ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
These are the duties of a bower-woman, laid down in the Books of Courtesy at that time. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
Eighth; during much of which period (with an interval for her Calais experience) Isoult Barry had been her bower-woman. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
From the Maiden Queen upon the throne to the pretty bower-woman at her needle, this homage was expected, and received almost as a matter of course. ❋ Emma Marshall (1864)
Clemence would not consent to treat her as bower-woman, and it was agreed that she should remain as one of the many orphans made by the civil war in England, without precise definition of her rank, and be only called by her Christian name. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Grisell as ever before, an English orphan, bower-woman to Vrow ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Lady Muriel and her bower-woman led her to their apartments in the inn. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Hob came to be once more his attendant, Dolly was Anne's bower-woman, and Simon Bunce Sir Harry's squire, though he never ceased blaming himself for having left his master, dead as he thought, when even a poor hound was more trusty. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
