child's-maid

Updated: May 25, 2025

The lady then, of course, asks them what branch of household service they can undertake; to which the invariable reply is, anything cook or housemaid, child's-maid or housekeeper, and that indeed they lived in better places at home than they expect to get in America, such as Lord So-and-so's, or Squire So-and-so's.

Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - Canada and the Canadians: Volume I

I am interested in this, for every step of the way, after I have passed through the green already mentioned, has for me something of early remembrance : There is the stile at which I can recollect a cross child's-maid upbraiding me with my infirmity, as she lifted me coarsely and carelessly over the flinty steps, which my brothers traversed with shout and bound.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley Novels — Volume 12

I am interested in this, for every step of the way, after I have passed through the green already mentioned, has for me something of early remembrance: There is the stile at which I can recollect a cross child's-maid upbraiding me with my infirmity as she lifted me coarsely and carelessly over the flinty steps, which my brothers traversed with shout and bound.

Sir Walter Scott - My Aunt Margaret's Mirror