abigail

Example Sentences

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Had not the faithful abigail watched the pair for years?

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

"The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig."

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

Mungo was despatched for Annapla, and speedily the silent abigail of visions was engaged upon that truly Gaelic courtesy, the bathing of the traveller's feet.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

And Toinon, foster-sister and confidential abigail, had absolutely betrothed herself in secret to this abandoned wretch!

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

Though there had been a tiff or an estrangement, the gamekeeper and the abigail were lovers.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis