His housemaid testified that she found his drawn sword lying by his side.

In particular, he wrote that according to further witness, the originating event actually happened in 1830, in Kostelec nad Labem, where she worked as a housemaid.

In his household she served as a housemaid ; no effort was made to teach her to read and write and she remained illiterate throughout her life.

Although she became a domestic worker ( housemaid ) at an early age, she always had an ambition to go overseas as a missionary, and studied with great determination in order to be fitted for the role, only to be turned down because her academic background was inadequate and the China Inland Mission to which she applied was convinced that it was not possible to learn the language at her age.

One woman, a housemaid, also survived the pyroclastic flow but perished soon after ; the only thing she remembered from the event was sudden heat.

Her father, a worker, died when she was young, and her mother brought her up working as a housemaid.

Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large.

After she returns home, mysterious assailants enter her home through the back door, kill her housemaid, kidnap her, and confine her in the attic of their safe house.

They lived in Florida, he mistreated her and she flew to New Jersey in 1926, working as a housemaid.

Except for the brothers, only the housemaid is greatly influenced by the prospect of longevity, for she turns out to be the only one who has really read Conrad's book.

At seven, she develops a crush on a housemaid named Collins, and is devastated when she sees Collins kissing a footman.

In 1908, James, who was always her favourite, had an affair with the housemaid Sarah and she ended up expecting.

Mulisch was mostly raised by his parents ' housemaid, Frieda Falk.

Miles Weatherhill, a 23-year-old weaver from the town, was forbidden from seeing his housemaid sweetheart, Sarah Bell, by the Reverend Anthony John Plow.

While weaving, Matsue, together with a housemaid, was very nervous about the care of weepy Kumaya.

His father died shortly before he was born, and his mother, a housemaid, already had four children.

He hired an apprentice, Christopher Cook, and a loyalist housemaid, Sarah Insley Vaughan, whom he was to marry.

In its fortieth year, the school building was gutted by fire on 14 May 1939, and a housemaid died in a fall from an upper window.

In 1991, Chiang's housemaid, Li Hung-mei ( 李洪美, or 李嫂 ) was found dead in Chiang's estate in the Taipei City.

Footsteps in the Fog was the third and final film Granger and Jean Simmons made together-Simmons played a Cockney housemaid who finds that her adventurer employer ( Granger ) has poisoned his rich wife in order to inherit her wealth.

* House-maid or housemaid — a generic term for maids whose function was chiefly ' above stairs ', and were therefore usually a little older, and better paid ; where a household included multiple House Maids they were often sub-divided as below.

He was born, the son of a tailor and a housemaid, in Folkestone, and had little formal education.

The book is based on an old manuscript collection of poetry, which Percy claimed to have rescued in Humphrey Pitt's house at Shifnal, Shropshire, " from the hands of the housemaid who was about to light the fire with it.

At about this time, Palmer was involved in an affair with Eliza Tharme, his housemaid.

The memoir was based on Parks ' recollections of thirty years ( 1931-1961 ) as a seamstress in the White House ( the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower ) and on childhood memories of her mother's 30 years of domestic service ( Margaret ' Maggie ' Rogers was head housemaid at the White House from 1909-1939, also spanning several administrations ).

Margaret ' Maggie ' Rogers ( 1874 – 1953 ) was a maid at the White House who served for 30 years ( 1909 – 1939 ), during the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's, eventually rising to head housemaid.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.

A wish for wings seems to be going well, but at sunset the children find themselves stuck atop a church bell tower with no way down, getting them into trouble with the church gamekeeper who must take them home ( though this wish has the happy side-effect of introducing the gamekeeper to the children's housemaid, who later marries him ).

And, when Claude expects another babyish child to pummel at his own will ( the father and gardener and housemaid were told not to interfere with proceedings, so not to disturb the balance as Claude's mother said, so unfortunately they watched a poor child being left to the manly strength of Claude.

In the 1891 census he is a scholar, aged 18 living at 49 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London, with his parents, 4 brothers, a visitor, and 4 servants ( cook, housemaid, parlourmaid, and ladies maid ).

When his wife becomes exhausted from working at a sewing machine to support the family, the composer hires a housemaid to help with the work around the house.

In Season 2, Episode 1 of Downton Abbey, the housemaid Ethel is seen reading a photoplay about Mabel Normand.

Alice talks about the important role of Helene, Gertrude's housemaid, in their household in Paris.

* 1996-Mary Reilly ( screenwriter ) based on the Valerie Martin novel about Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich

A housemaid ( Margaret Hamilton ) who once worked for Praetorius reacts visibly when Elwell asks her about Praetorius's mysterious friend Mr. Shunderson, who rarely leaves Praetorius's side and has a deep, intuitive understanding of human and animal nature.

* Ellen Pontifex ( born ca. 1831 ; housemaid of Theobald and Christina ; pregnant by John the coachman & married him 15 August 1851 ; separated ; married bigamously to Ernest late 1850s ; annulled 1862 ).

Under the pen-name " C. C. Benison ," he is the author of a series of murder mysteries set on the estates of Queen Elizabeth II where the crimes are solved by housemaid Jane Bee, with the Queen's help.

Shortly before Carl Nielsen met his wife, he had a son Carl August Hansen ( 8 January 1888 – 4 April 1963 ) by a housemaid, Karen Marie Hansen ( 4 September 1865 – 17 March 1949 ).

Marcello ’ s mother and housemaid discover that his father has vandalized a photograph of Marcello and his mother by poking holes through their eyes and drawing streaks of blood on their faces.

The next morning, however, Norton is found dead in his locked room with a bullet-hole perfectly in the centre of his forehead, the key in his dressing-gown pocket and a pistol ( remembered by a housemaid as belonging to him ) nearby.

The new housemaid behaves strangely, catching rats with her hands, spying on the composer, seducing him and eventually becoming pregnant by him.

The composer's wife convinces the housemaid to induce a miscarriage by falling down a flight of stairs.

Boudu ( Michel Simon ) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound manners of his hosts and seduces not only the housemaid but also Madame Lestingois herself.