waiting woman
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A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
My mother was a very pretty waiting woman at an ordinary tavern; one night she abruptly stepped out and sailed for America, carrying with her my unfinished self, and the silver spoons.
From Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life by Thompson, George
But she had schooled herself to serenity with an effort almost superhuman—and seizing a silver bell at her side, she rang for her waiting woman.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
A waiting woman walks round Anna, who asks: "Am I all right?"
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
