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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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St. Thomas Aquinas believed that reason should serve as the handmaiden of faith.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He poured it out upon the little sons and daughters, and servants and handmaidens...
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In his workshop he has handmaidens he has forged out of gold who can move and who help him in his work.
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One of her handmaidens told the suit ors and they discovered her in the very act.
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Science had always been and continued to remain the handmaiden of the great Eastern religions.
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She was too young to be setting herself up as the devoted handmaiden to the great man.
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The notes refer to other dancers representing handmaidens, a bird and winds: rather complex for so short a work.