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Quotes About Maidservant

A week or so later the Vicar rang up to ask if he could come and see Lady Graham. Most of us would at once have had a (quite unnecessary) attack of conscience and wondered if we had been accused of brawling in church or coveting our neighbour's maidservant (a sin which has now, by force of circumstances, become Common Usage).
~ Angela Thirkell
Britain's first Labour Prime Minister was the illegitimate son of a maidservant, who as a young man had taken it upon himself to continue his education after leaving school at the age of twelve. Ramsey MacDonald
~ Jacqueline Winspear
A child wailed, elsewhere in the house, and the Canon glanced at the maidservant and gestured at the door. 'Away and deal wi that bairn, Kirsty, and see if you canny keep it quieter.' 'Takes after his faither,' retorted Kirsty with a toss of her head,
~ Unknown
Now Abramís wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
~ Genesis 16:1
This is the account of Abrahamís son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahís maidservant, bore to Abraham.
~ Genesis 25:12
Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
~ Genesis 30:18
The sons of Rachelís maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
~ Genesis 35:25
Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
~ Exodus 2:5
then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”
~ 1 Samuel 25:31
For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from Godís inheritance.í
~ 2 Samuel 14:16