handmaids in A Sentence

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    Then the Handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

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    As I'm rereading this story, I'm struck that women with controlling partners resemble the Handmaids' stories to some extent.

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    And he put the Handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

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    It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her Handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

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    But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the Handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for Handmaids.

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    But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the Handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for Handmaids.

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    These narrators are Aunt Lydia- the most senior of the Aunts in the first novel, who trains and manages the Handmaids on behalf of the Gilead regime- and two young women.

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    According to the prophecies from the books of the prophets and the Book of Revelation, the Church of Philadelphia will be raptured before the great disasters, and God will nourish His servants and Handmaids with His Spirit to make complete a group of overcomers before the disasters.

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