Domestics

Examples

• By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The domestics were dismissed at her pleasure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Domestics are in all countries a spoiled and unruly set. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Only two or three domestics shuddered in the bleak old servants' hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She warned the domestics not to touch the child, as Mrs. Osborne might be offended. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This personage had been exerting himself, with great alacrity, in driving all the flock of domestics to the other end of the verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The three or four domestics resident in the deserted old house came presently at that jangling and continued summons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Miss Horrocks was installed as housekeeper at Queen's Crawley, and ruled all the domestics there with great majesty and rigour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Charlene