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Sometimes growing up I felt like the unhired help.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that moment all the unhired serving maids rushed to Sir Tristram and crowded about him and began their eternal, "I can bake, sir, I can brew, sir," etc., and begged him to hire them.

From Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke

Tuesday morning is, in fact, to a large extent, the mere residuum either of Monday's unhired incapables, or of "returns."

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Yet there is a sort of unhired fidelity, an ourishness about all this that makes it rest pleasant on one's feelings.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Yet there is a sort of unhired fidelity, an 'ourishness' about all this that makes it rest pleasant on one's feelings.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor