Servant
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710 examples of Servant in a sentence
And the favour she shows me, I obtain on the footing of a confidential
servant!
'It is our turn, now,' he exclaimed, as he locked himself into his room, and flung off his coat:'What, Mademoiselle,' he wrote to Mathilde, 'it is Mademoiselle de La Mole who, by the hand of Arsene, her father's servant, transmits a letter couched in too seductive terms to a poor carpenter from the Jura, doubtless to play a trick upon his simplicity ...'And he transcribed the most unequivocal sentences from the letter he had received.
I may be shot point-blank by a servant, but that is the least danger; I may forfeit my honour.
'I wish to remind myself,' she told him, 'that I am your servant: should my accursed pride ever make me forget it, show me these locks and say: "There is no question now of love, we are not concerned with the emotion that your heart may be feeling at this moment, you have sworn to obey, obey upon your honour."'
'See what your
servant
sends you,' she said in audible tones, 'it is the sign of eternal obedience.
I gave it much thought during the two years in which I professed myself her most humble
servant.
It was true, though, that he had no secondary income from bribes and fraud, and he couldn't tell a
servant
to bring him a woman up to the office on his arm.
That's when they come for advice to the lawyer, with a
servant
behind them carrying the documents which normally are kept so secret.
"Wrap them all up!" he called out, interrupting the painter as he was speaking, "my
servant
will come to fetch them in the morning."
They soon came across a
servant
of the court - K. was now able to recognise all the servants of the court from the gold buttons they wore on their civilian clothes below the normal buttons - and the painter instructed him to go with K. carrying the pictures.
He now had to get rid of the servant, whose gold button continually caught his eye even if it caught no-one else's.
As a servant, the
servant
of the court was going to sit on the coach-box.
"No," said the businessman, "we were greeting the
servant
of the court.
We asked the
servant
for our hats and coats in whispers, and opened the door for ourselves, and slipped out, and got round the corner quickly, avoiding each other as much as possible.
The man who could row a straight course from Oxford to Iffley ought to be able to live comfortably, under one roof, with his wife, his mother-in-law, his elder sister, and the old
servant
who was in the family when he was a baby.
In a minute the
servant
returned, and informed his master that another traveler, overtaken by the storm, desired to be admitted to the house for a shelter through the night.
He paused a moment, as the person of Harper met his view, and then, in a more formal manner, repeated the request he had before made through the
servant.
For an instant only, as the negro spoke, did Harper suspend his silent meal; his eye moved slowly from the
servant
to the master, and again all remained in impenetrable reserve.
The old family
servant
who, born and reared in the dwelling of his master, identified himself with the welfare of those whom it was his lot to serve, is giving place in every direction to that vagrant class which has sprung up within the last thirty years, and whose members roam through the country unfettered by principles, and uninfluenced by attachments.
His eyes, which stood at a most formidable distance from each other, were small, and characterized by an expression of good feeling, occasionally interrupted by the petulance of an indulged servant; they, however, now danced with inward delight.
The troop continued its march; but the captain and his lieutenant dismounted, and, followed by the
servant
of the former, they proceeded slowly to the door of the cottage.
Next followed the
servant
of Captain Lawton, bearing, as he marched stiffly, and walking wide, as if allowing room for his steed, a ham of true Virginian flavor; a present from the spinster's brother in Accomac.
Both Wellmere and the
servant
of Lawton had fled: the former to the stables, and the latter to give the alarm, leaving all in darkness.
Your obedient servant, GEO.
"And who was he?""His name was Caesar; he was a house
servant
of my late grandfather Wharton.
Harvey Birch has for years been a faithful and unrequited
servant
of his country.
I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it (that is, to be a servant), though I was so young; and I told my nurse, as we called her, that I believed I could get my living without going to service, if she pleased to let me; for she had taught me to work with my needle, and spin worsted, which is the chief trade of that city, and I told her that if she would keep me, I would work for her, and I would work very hard.
The fright of my condition had made such an impression upon me, that I did not want now to be a gentlewoman, but was very willing to be a servant, and that any kind of
servant
they thought fit to have me be.
However, I called a servant, and got him a little glass of rum (which is the usual dram of that country), for he was just fainting away.
I endeavoured to talk him into temper, and to reason him into a kind of scheme for our government in the affair, and sometimes he would be well, and talk with some courage about it; but the weight of it lay too heavy upon his thoughts, and, in short, it went so far that he made attempts upon himself, and in one of them had actually strangled himself and had not his mother come into the room in the very moment, he had died; but with the help of a Negro
servant
she cut him down and recovered him.
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