Later, Eurycleia informs Penelope that Odysseus has returned, but Penelope does not believe the maid.

Suddenly, the maid, Mary, dashes in, tearful and breathless, and informs Dolly that there is a body in the library, before running out again.

Both a nurse and a maid employed by the Dickinsons at the time emphatically stated that no money had ever been concealed there.

If a maid ever took over my house like Hazel, I'd set her hair on fire.

Perhaps because of her own infidelity, Titania was quick to assume that Auberon was equally unfaithful although no evidence of this was ever shown, and conversely Auberon was shown to maintain strong affection for his wife even in the face of her reputation, even regularly disguising himself as a maid to be with his queen without enduring her scorn.

Only her Peruvian maid, Dolores, whom she has known for years, is ever allowed in.

The Jordans were experts at transforming the ethnic humor of vaudeville into more rounded comic characters, no doubt due in part to the affection felt for the famous supporting cast members who voiced these roles, including Bill Thompson ( as the Old Timer and Wimple ), Harold Peary ( as Gildersleeve ), Gale Gordon ( as LaTrivia ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( as Dr. Gamble ; Bryan also voiced Elmer Fudd for the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, which also borrowed lines from Fibber McGee and Molly from time to time ), Isabel Randolph ( as Mrs. Uppington ), Marlin Hurt ( a white male who played in dialect the McGee's maid, Beulah ), and others.

Some Italian decks add two more court cards: the maid and the mounted lady.

The first written Greek law code ( Locrian code ), by Zaleucus in the 7th century BC, stipulated that " no free woman should be allowed any more than one maid to follow her, unless she was drunk: nor was to stir out of the city by night, wear jewels of gold about her, or go in an embroidered robe, unless she was a professed and public prostitute ; that, bravos excepted, no man was to wear a gold ring, nor be seen in one of those effeminate robes woven in the city of Miletus.

By 1836 there were ' almost no cotters ' with the largest farms employing no more than ten people, and some of those only as maid servants.

The second legend on Qianlong's origins, more popular in northern China, stated that during a trip to the Mulan Hunting Ground ( 木蘭圍場 ) in Rehe Province, Yongzheng had an illegitimate affair with a palace maid and they conceived a son, who would become the Qianlong Emperor.

She is the Beynons ' maid, but longs for a more exciting life.

Their usage may or may not have anything to do with a character's eyesight, and they are often a " neutral " costume not as closely associated with more obvious fetishes such as meido ( maid ) or seifuku ( school uniform ).

He is being forced by his brother to marry Madge Cartwright, the heiress to a soap dynasty, although he is more interested in her maid, Rose.

When it was time to board a life boat, Madeleine Astor, her maid, and her nurse had to crawl through the first class promenade window into the tilting lifeboat 4 ( which had been lowered down to A deck to take on more passengers ).

The L. A. Times noted that Latino voters were more likely interested that Whitman treated Santillan " like a piece of garbage " when the maid asked for help finding an immigration attorney, and Whitman allegedly stated " you don't know me and I don't know you ".

That night, Alfred and Sarah sing of their mutual attraction, while Chagal does some more fooling around with the maid, and Abronsius is swiftly knocked on the head by persons unknown ( Nie geseh ' n ).

Spinster often implied that the woman was older than the age when most women traditionally marry and that she would probably never marry ; more extremely this was defined as an ' old maid '.

Qing-jao trusts her implicitly and relies on her more as a friend with a fresh set of eyes rather than a simple maid, and the two often discuss the problems of science and philosophy arising out of their task.

He also appears a bit more often, mainly in the scenes of Act V, where he sneaks on board a truck full of timber and witnesses the death of Macbeth before killing the maid and being directed home by Macduff.

But more recently linguistic investigations made by Verena Lepper and Miriam Liechtheim ( especially by the first one ) strengthen the theory that the novel of pWestcar is definitely over after the story of the maid servant's death.

The rhyme is first recorded in Germany in 1826, as " Es fuhr ein Bau ' r ins Holz ," and was more clearly a courtship game with a farmer choosing a wife, then in turn the selecting of a child, maid, and serving man, who leaves the maid after kissing.

Since the mid-1990s, it has become more politically correct to call such a person a ' helper ' rather than a maid or ayah.

Other characters who appear in more than one book include Satoko Ayakura ( Kiyoaki's lover ), Tadeshina ( Satoko's maid ), Imperial Prince Toin, Shigeyuki Iinuma ( Kiyoaki's servant and Isao's father ), Keiko Hisamatsu, and Rié ( Honda's wife ).

Her role in the family is small, serving as more of a maid than a wife or mother.

Although she admits such comments are said in jest, she contends that it shows that they consider her more of a maid, a cook or even a janitor in the “ great House of Mexican Literature .”

I'll go no more a roving with you fair maid!

`` Oh, she was just the maid there '', he replied, waving a hand to indicate how completely unimportant she was.

So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.

In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.

The maid tells Sigrún that the burial mound has opened up, and that Sigrún should go to Helgi there, as Helgi has asked her to come and tend his wounds, which have opened up and are bleeding.

After the party, she goes home but on the same night, undetected by Kathy, her maid, goes back to Williams's apartment ( Myrna, his fiancée, does not live there ) and shoots him in the stomach using a silencer.

But the maid was only on the flight by accident, having been asked to be there at the last moment.

And during the time when Gandhari was in a state of advanced pregnancy, there was a maid servant of the Vaisy class who used to attend on Dhritarashtra.

The line, ' there was a fair maid dwelling ,' was used as the title of a novel

She said she was Yuan-Xiao, a maid in the emperor's palace and that she never had a chance to see her family since she started working there.

Candy looked like the typical meter maid, but there was something about her that attracted Carter — not to mention Captain Nice.

These witches have also been humoristically referred to be spinsters who will end up there in order to escape from the " old maid " tax.

However, Blair is unable to meet Chuck because her maid goes into labor on their way there.

It is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a maid who was murdered there and a child.

In a lengthy flashback, it is revealed that Will and Deanna met when Will was stationed on Betazed between assignments, and while there attended a wedding at which Deanna was maid of honor.

*: There was an old maid from VerdunThe joke being that " Verdun " rhymes with one, so it can be inferred that if there was a second line, it would say " Whose limericks all stopped on line one.

Among cross-dressing female-dominated men, there is also an extensive Sissy subculture with men roleplaying as submissive " sissy maids " wearing a feminine French maid costume.

Though Barnabas had become engaged to Josette following an earlier visit to Martinique, he had there enjoyed a brief dalliance with his fiancée's personal maid, Angélique Bouchard ( Lara Parker ), who was secretly a witch.

A minute later, there was a hoarse scream from the study, and the maid, after hesitating for a moment, went there to find a murder scene.

Meanwhile at Redwall Abbey, there is a young hare maid named Martha Braebuck, who is totally incapable of walking, thus restricting her to a wheelchair.

The original idea called for there to be one maid working at the apartment.

When he gets there he finds the owner and his maid crushed to death and the place under attack by a pair of mobile giant stones like those from the Moor.