As the negotiations were usually carried on with the capita, or headman, the unfortunate servant was transferred with small profit to himself, and little knowledge of the conditions of his servitude.
It is to be borne in mind that of the three judges two had never been in Africa before, while the third was a direct servant of the attacked institution.
I am sure the king owes for all he hath eaten since April: and I am not acquainted with one servant of his who hath a pistole in his pocket.
Grenville was treated not as a prisoner, but a confidential servant of the sovereign.
Scot observed that the servant had already learned to give directions to his masters.
A clock inside the room chimed the half-hour, and scarcely had the sound died away into silence when the door behind her opened and a native servant showed a visitor into the room.
He had already paddled out of bed once to admit his boy, for no servant slept in the house; and he paddled across the room a second time, jerked open the window, and looked out.
How could he expect a livery servant to tolerate such a guest?
He had a grandiose sense of his own importance, but it was a pride that had its roots in humility, for he felt himself great because he was the servant of greatness.
The livery-servant was visibly taken aback by the spectacle of their juxtaposition.
But his fears vanished at the encouraging expression on the face of the maid servant who opened the door.
She gave the servant orders merely to see her arms and legs moving.
And so the servant was kept running to and fro, spoiling the neighbours for the greater glory of Flutter-Duck.
He would have to present Manasseh to the livery servant without even that clean face which might not unreasonably have been expected for the Sabbath.
When the servant developed insolence, as under Flutter-Duck's fostering familiarity she did, Flutter-Duck would resume her dignity with a jerk.
So far as I have been able to make out, the only persons who were supposed to know where Alario kept his treasure were Angelo and the one woman-servant I have mentioned.
The faithful woman-servant forgot their existence only for a few moments when she fled with the rest, overcome by the horror of death.
As long as it's there it only screams now and then, generally at this time of year, but if I put it out of the house it goes on all night, and no servant will stay here twenty-four hours.
Angelo lived in the half-finished house, and because he had no money to pay the old woman-servant she would not stay with him, but once in a long time she would come and wash a shirt for him for old acquaintance' sake.
He took it the night before she was buried, I'm sure, after the coffin had been shut, and when the servant girl was asleep.
The nigger servant is a sporting sort of party, and never loses an opportunity to indulge his tastes in this direction.
Even "Tommy" knows this, and on a cold day will call a big Zulu servant by a name which implies that the Zulu's father and mother were never legally married.
My servant had adroitly dodged into a sluit which hid him from view, and I knew that he could work his way out far better than I could.
When a combination of rain and religion has depressed him the nigger servantis one of the most abject-looking mortals that ever wore clothes, and makes as sad a spectacle as a farmyard fowl on a front fence in a thunderstorm.
The servant so planted is always well-behaved, and inspires the greatest confidence.
If you ring the bell a man-servant will open the little trap in the door and look at you keenly.
You would think to look at her that she had been a general servantof the "slavey" type in some poor household.
The girl uttered a cry, and theservant sleeping in the same room woke up and sprang out of bed.
The footman who persuades the lady of rank that he is a prince, and the loafer who engages himself to half a dozenservant girls a month in order to get money and their bits of jewellery, pursue practically the same methods.
When her fellow-servant returned, the girl, who was paralyzed with fear, asked her what had happened.
But she remembered that two years previously a servanton their books had left through seeing something of the same sort.
He rushed in directly the door was opened and walked into my study, the door of which was open, before the astonished servant could interfere.
Not long ago a young servant came to seek a place in London.
It was not until his noble relatives received the news of his actual death through a faithful servant who had accompanied him into exile that they felt easy in their minds about him.
Her mother had been left for the Sunday with one servant only in the house--the cook, a foreigner.
For this reason he has his own valet and an aged man-servant to attend to him, and these are the only people, with the exception of the master and mistress, who ever go into that part of the house.
He expressed some displeasure at his servant for letting us know of his coming: for he intended to have sent for Mr. Wesley to dine with him at Dawson's and then come to visit us in the afternoon.
Yet you put it in my mind at times, that the poor servant with one talent had some excuse, if a poor defence, who said 'I know thee, that thou art a hard man.
She would have stayed for it, but I pushed her out; got her and my two eldest children downstairs (where two of the servant were now got), and asked for the keys.
Hetty knew of two women only in the house--the landlady who had opened the door last night and a pert-looking slatternly servant she had passed at the foot of the stairs on her way to the cathedral.
Half-way up the servant girl was stooping over a stair-rod, pretending to clean it.
His dearest ambition is to see each of these three an accredited servant of Christ.
The whole house of Mrs Maple had been awakened at day-light, by the foreign servant of Elinor; who came to bid Tomlinson call up Mrs Maple, and acquaint her, that he believed that her niece was determined to make away with herself.
An Asura servant of Varuna carried Nanda to his master.
The servant cut open the fish and the child came out.
But only if the relationship of Master and servant does really subsist, might there be command and obedience.
Susarman shall be killed by his servant Balin, a Sudra of the Andhra clan, who shall himself usurp the throne.
For Thy servant by Thy favor gets the company of Mahatmas.
In a word, every particular, even down to the servant Perrine, whom the boys of the choir took such delight in teasing.
The servant returned to tell her the horses were put to; she made no answer.
Fortunately the maid-servant of an old man who lodged under me was waked by the noise, and got up and ran to call the chatelain, whose house was next to mine.
The enraged magistrate, having no other weapon than the jordan under his bed, was just going to throw it at the poor fellow's head as his servant returned.
According to what La Roche, the confidential servant of Madam de Luxembourg, wrote to me relative to what had happened, it is by this cruel and memorable example that the miseries of greatness are to be deplored.
They did everything for themselves, and had neither a servant nor runner; each had his turn weekly to purchase provisions, do the business of the kitchen, and sweep the house.
I had not the happiness to please this worthy triumvirate; I obeyed, but did not wait on them, not conceiving that my duty to our general mistress required me to be a servant to her servants.
When we left Paris, Madam le Vasseur had long been in the habit of going to see Grimm twice or thrice a month, and continuing with him for hours together, in conversation so secret that the servant was always sent out of the room.
Lambercier's, where a good maid-servant was discharged for having once made use of an expression before us which was thought to contain some degree of indelicacy.
A remarkable case was that of a servant who was a somnambulist, and who for some time wrote letters in her sleep, night after night, and took them to adjacent letter boxes to post.
Her Majesty possesses one more faithful public servant than she is aware of, though its name does not transpire in the list of the Ministry.
If you had come and ordered a dinner of the kind you wished, and took seats at the public table, with a servant to wait upon you, I should have charged you the same that I would charge any other guest.
Throughout the pantomime the relations of Clown and Pantaloon, or Sir Amoroso, the guardian (he is called by these titles indifferently), as master and servant are carefully preserved.
Henslowe had been the servant of Mrs. Woodward, and by his union with her he acquired considerable property.
The Stranger reads from morning to night, as his servant Francis reports of him.
However, there was no help for it; the servant had admitted him, and he was introduced in form to Mr. Godwin.
Even nowadays the appearance of a servant on the stage for the necessary purposes of the performance--to carry chairs on or off, to spread or remove a carpet, &c.
It would be unbearable to have Emma's lover called Mr William Larkins and his servant George Knightley.
A noncommittal man-servant informed her that Mr. Farwell was still away (he had gone to Cincinnati on business for several days), and that the other gentleman had left unexpectedly the night before.
Farwell, so they were informed by a correct man-servant at the door, was away for the afternoon and evening, so that they had the house to themselves.
The servant cleared his throat and repeated, "Dinner is served.
The servant thought not, as he had since telegraphed for all his luggage to be sent on to New York.
But if she turned it, there were only the dogs, eagerly waiting her pleasure, their tails astir; or perhaps a servant coming from the house with a wrap for her, because the breeze was damp.
She was a very good servant in every way, and perfectly devoted to you and to little Katharine.
A servant had just discovered, in Kate's room, a sealed letter addressed to the Madam, and pinned to her pillow.
Unnoticed, the long August twilight had come into the room, and a servant shut it out unobtrusively with silken curtains.
She was his servant for many years before I came here.
At that moment the discreet servant entered with a small bottle wrapped in a napkin.
The one servant he kept was an ancient negress addicted to the use of whisky and cocaine.
What she and her old servant had to say to each other must not be overheard.
He knew she loved to be the scolding servant or housekeeper, with her head tied up in a handkerchief, shrill and vulgar.
The servantwas just a slim, pert, forward hussy, much too flagrant.
The master cannot understand how any good quality can lead one to "forget his station"; to the servant the spirit of management in the master seems mere "driving.
The master cannot enter into the feelings of the servant, nor the servant into those of his master.
In fact every tub-thumper went about preaching and ruining servant girls, and for this we paid over twenty millions a year--more than the interest on the whole National Debt.
The old servant beamed upon him, with a "glad to see your lordship's well!
The old servant saw her ghastly face, and knew from Higgins that his master intended going to Paris that night.
She felt extremely faint when she got into the air, but her will pulled her through, and when she got there the little servant put her doubts at rest.
The slatternly little servant said that the gentleman was "hout," but would the lady come in and wait?
Tristram hurriedly wrote out another and handed it, and the servant finally left the room.
But before a servantbrought up the envelope with the notes she had calmed herself and was preparing to go out.
A great storm was coming on--it suited his mood--so he had left even his servant in London and had gone off to a wild place on the Dorsetshire coast that he knew of, and there heard no news of any one.
At the sound of the closing of the door Mr. Markrute pressed the button of a wonderful trifle of Russian enamel and emeralds, which lay on his writing table, and a quiet servant entered the room.
And, then, really it is insufferable for a hiredservant to take so much upon herself.
We never did have but one servant who could make the toast properly," continued the head of the family.
Yesterday we went to see Samuel Essington, [Footnote: The servant who was so faithful and so frightened at the time of the rebellion.
The servant who was harnessing the horses would not tell to whom the carriage belonged.
I have given all the particulars of the bridegrooms' accoutrements, and signed myself the young ladies' "obedient servant and perhaps dupe.
They have also been at Ringowny, where there was only one servant left to take care of the house; they took the arms and broke all the windows.
I have written concerning them to the Father Superior there, and he tells me that Mr. Carson died a very rich man, and that he was a generous servant of the Church.
The breakfast was drawing to an end and the faithful Niccolas was the only servant remaining in the room.
Kalonay gave their ponies to a servant and pointed with his whip to an arbor that stood at one end of the garden.
The two ebony figures shook their heads stiffly, as though they resented this introduction of a foreign language, and continued to shake their heads as the servant addressed the same question to them in a succession of strange tongues.
The numerous establishment was reduced to a cook and an assistant, two men-servants, and a woman-servant to attend to the linen.
A servant in the Temple named Marchand, the father of a family, was robbed of two hundred francs, --his wages for two months.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "servant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
