handmaiden

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• These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
• Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
• ROY GREENSLADE, PROFESSOR, CITY UNIVERSITY/MEDIA COMMENTATOR: Well, it can be the handmaiden, which is Timothy Balding's point. CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008
• Only after she heard this from two others did she herself believe it and accept her status as handmaiden, which is reflected in her statement to the angel: “I am running away from my mistress Sarai” (Gen. Rabbah 45: 7). Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.
• Get it yet; she did not want to be judged on her own name and merits; she wanted to be known as the handmaiden of slick Willie. Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech
• But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments. Samuel Rutherford
• Then she said to me, “Know that this handmaiden is to us even as our own child and she is a trust committed to thee by Allah.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic.
• In this work the aeroplane is the handmaiden of industry. What Aviation Means to Canada
• It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end. The Moon Pool