Handmaid

For, as _the Psalm saith_, that "the eye of the handmaid looketh perpetually towards the mistress," and yet, _no doubt, many things are left to the discretion of the handmaid_, to discern of the ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

Then she called her handmaid and said to her, ‘Go to Shajarat al-Durr and say to her, ‘Thy sister saluteth thee and biddeth thee to her; so favour her by coming to her this night, according to thy custom, for her breast is straitened. ' ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Then she called the handmaid Marjanah hight and said to her, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Richardson plays a "handmaid" - essentially a breeder in a world where most women are sterile - hired out to a privileged couple (Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) to conceive their child. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prince of True Believers, my handmaid is worth more than this: do but prove her, and her value will be magnified in thine eyes; for this slave-girl hath not her equal, and she were unfit to any but thou.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then she called the handmaid Marjanah hight and said to her, As thou lovest me, do my errand this day and be not neglectful therein! ❋ Unknown (2006)

So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, Go to Ardashir, son of the Great King, and fear not. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now the tray-maker was fair of face and comely of form, and the wife of the master of the house saw him and fell in love with him and her heart inclined to him with exceeding inclination; so, her husband being absent, she called her handmaid and said to her, “Contrive to bring yonder man to us.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, "Go to Ardashir, son of the ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Having thus laid bare the bases of belief, I draw the conclusion that Revelation has obedience for its sole object, therefore, in purpose no less than in foundation and method, stands entirely aloof from ordinary knowledge; each has its separate province, neither can be called the handmaid of the other. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then the Princess called her handmaid and said, 'Bring me from my room the jewelled drinking horn.' ❋ Louey Chisholm (N/A)

A woman-in the old time she would have been called a handmaid-answered, and dexterously piled the pillows and bolsters as rests for the back; after which they sat upon the side of the divan, while water was brought fresh from the lake, and their feet bathed and dried with napkins. ❋ Unknown (1901)

The/lilu/had a companion who is called his handmaid or servant. ❋ Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1895)

: What means this, that a handmaid is the first to tax him, when men would be more likely to recognise him, except that this sex might seem to sin somewhat in the Lord's death, that they might be redeemed by His passion? ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

Painting has been called the handmaid of nature; is it not the duty of a handmaid to array her mistress to the best possible advantage? ❋ Unknown (1827)

025: 041 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Though Bilhah was heretofore described only as Rachel's "handmaid," she is now after Rachel's death described in her relationship to Jacob against whom the wrong is done and is designated as Jacob's "concubine." ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

Already Aristotle and Philo of Alexandria, in determining the relation of philosophy to that part of metaphysics which is directly concerned with God, pronounced philosophy to be the "handmaid" of natural theology. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)