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Servant in sentence

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In a leaked 14-page memo, Britain’s most senior civil servant tells us that with a no-deal Brexit, prices would go up 10%, a recession would follow, and civil disorder could not be ruled out.
In the UK, Brexiteers’ attacks on the UK civil servant leading negotiations with the EU became so aggressive as to elicit a highly unusual public statement from the acting cabinet secretary (telling those responsible that they should be “ashamed of themselves”).
He remains the model for a modern public servant.
The most recent example has been the firing of four inspectors-general, a genus of civil servant created after Watergate to act as independent checks on the conduct of federal agencies and their officials.
It will all "shape itself'!'The fact of the matter was that when Levin told his old servant Kuzma to get his things ready, Kuzma had duly brought his dress coat, waistcoat and what else he considered necessary.
'The servant of God, Constantine, is betrothed to the servant of God, Catherine,' and having put a big ring on Kitty's slender, rosy finger, pathetic in its weakness, the priest repeated the same words.
Therefore, O God our Lord, who sentest down Thy truth upon Thy heritage, and gavest Thy promises to our fathers from generation to generation of Thy chosen people, look down upon thy servant Constantine and Thy servant Catherine and strengthen them in their union with faith and concord in truth and love...'Levin felt more and more that his ideas of marriage and his dreams of how he would arrange his life had been but childishness, and that this was something he had never understood and was now still further from understanding, although it was happening to him; and in his breast a tremor rose higher and higher, and the unruly tears came to his eyes.
The servant returned with the reply that he had a visitor, but would come up at once, and wished to know whether he might bring with him Prince Yashvin, who had just arrived in Petersburg.
'Anna Arkadyevna sent me to say that she has gone to the theatre,' said a servant.
At the porch Kuzma, an old servant of his bachelor days, who was now managing the household in town, stopped Levin.
And what on earth am I to say to them?'As he entered the first drawing-room he met in the doorway the Countess Bol, who with an anxious and stern expression was giving orders to a servant.
'Then you will come at once?' said Levin, looking angrily at the servant who brought in the coffee.
Then he was sent to fetch an icon with silver-gilt mounts from the Princess's bedroom, and he and the Princess's old lady's maid climbed on a cupboard to get down the icon, and he broke the little lamp that burned before it, and the old servant tried to comfort him about his wife and about the lamp.
She was so terrified at being alone that she did not wait for the servant but went out to meet him.
'And Catherine Alexandrovna?'[Speaking to the servant Levin gives Kitty her full name.]
Besides these two women, the only other servant was the coachman, Francis, who undertook the heavy work.
"To think," she cried, without naming the Hennebeaus, "that this morning I saw their servant go by in a carriage!
That servant in a white apron taken to the market of the neighbouring town in her master's carriage aroused indignation.
As the servant was passing round the crayfish he took three of them without knowing what he was doing and began to break their claws with his teeth.
All talked excitedly at the same time, while the servant poured out Rhine wine in place of champagne which was looked upon as commonplace.
At first the servant told them to wait, and shut the door on them; then, when he came back, he introduced them into the drawing-room, and opened the curtains.
At last Madame Hennebeau called the servant:"Hippolyte, before we go into the drawing-room just open the windows and let in a little air."
It annoyed him to be thus forced to return to Réquillart; this girl would kiss his hands with her air of an amorous servant; but one did not leave one's friends in trouble; he would still be kind with her if need be.
A serviette lay about, the servant should be scolded.
It was said that they had arrived from Douai during the night, and Rasseneur was accused of having betrayed his mates by warning M. Hennebeau; a putter even swore that she had seen the servant taking a dispatch to the telegraph office.
And at midday he lunched alone in the large dining-room, served so quietly by the servant that he could not even hear his slippers.
The servant entered and was thrown into consternation by the disorder.
He recognized the servant's voice.
"But the misfortune is that I'm alone here, and, besides, I do not know where to send my servant to bring me four men and a corporal to clear away this mob."
The servant had, however, promised that he would come to the settlement before night, and the mother was standing at the window watching, while the little invalid, who had wished to be downstairs, was shivering on a chair, having the illusion that it was better there near the cold grate.
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