"Downstairs" worker

Usage examples of servant.

Constantine, to whose sons they had engaged their allegiance by an oath of fidelity, which the ingratitude of his most favored servants had tempted them to violate.

The servants were waiting at the crossroads, and she watched until the assessor had joined them.

Without imparting the secret to any one, she instantly conducted Athanasius into her most secret chamber, and watched over his safety with the tenderness of a friend and the assiduity of a servant.

Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.

Such, however, as he could make out were richly attired in doublets of silk and satin, while their rich velvet mantles, plumed and jewelled caps, and long rapiers, were carried by their servants.

Christ is simply greatest, Lord, Ruler, whereas to be subject or servant or less is to be attributed to Him with the qualification, in His human nature.

Since the servant balked at tripping the latch, Lirenda was left the irrevocable choice of whether to proceed or turn back.

My father ordered one of the servants to stop a passing bearer and find out where the Barca mansion was, and what their colors were.

The servant folded the rose barracan and put it away with gestures which seemed to indicate that such a flowing garment and its matching veil would not be needed within the harem.

Both Grace Bartram and Doctor Felton Shores watched as the servant opened the front door to admit a tall, dignified man, whose white hair formed a conspicuous mop as he removed his hat.

Peter, whose feet were washed that night, never forgot that night, and his warm heart always warmed to a servant when he saw her with her bason and her towels, till he gave her half a chapter to herself in his splendid First Epistle.

Amaranthe, little Cecile Renault--a mere child not sixteen years of age--also men like Michonis and Roussell, faithful servants of de Batz, the Baron de Lezardiere, and the Comte de St.

Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.

No, Bedlam, I think these are his unliving servants, as horrible in their own way as those things moving south.

Then he calmed himself, and, ringing a bell, told the servant to tell Lady Bellamy that he had walked on home.