Servants

Usage examples of menials.

How she could talk, even chatter to her servants, whom others would class as menials and beneath their notice, and yet still hold their deep respect.

Bamboku, at one time a petty clerk at the Court, a post offering at best little advancement beyond a stewardship over the lower order of menials, had resigned from his position ten years before, bought a small shop in the market-place, and turned merchant, and through his former connections did business with the Court and the ladies.

Begone, or menials shall cast thee from my door: those lips are too base to breathe the same air as honest men.

A space before midnight, when all was finished, we instructed our menials to carry Pebble away.