Servants

Examples

• As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I suppose the servants are careless, and we have had a great many people coming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The servants could not describe the man, as he did not enter the house, but remained in the carriage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This Mr. Will was commander-in-chief of Worcester's servants. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A man of plain habits, he had sent his servants to bed and must needs go down to open the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Do you mean, Sir Percival, that I am to dismiss the indoor servants under my charge without the usual month's warning? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A picture of our family life would be incomplete without the household servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I went back at once to the question of the servants wanted for the furnished house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If we add hired servants the State will be complete. Plato. The Republic.
• I only said I wouldn't go without one of the servants came up to Sir Leicester Dedlock, returns Mr. Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Only three women--his niece and two servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• For my part, Mr. Bingley, I always keep servants that can do their own work; _my_ daughters are brought up very differently. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You are not to associate with servants. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You know your master never deals with those southern traders, and never means to sell any of his servants, as long as they behave well. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In short, I shall sell the horses, and get rid of all the servants at once. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The first person whom I met in crossing the servants' hall was Mrs. Michelson, the housekeeper. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But there are eight servants, and all of good character. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Why, said Miss Ophelia, bluntly, I suppose you think your servants are human creatures, and ought to have some rest when they are tired. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She's plenty of tin; she wears a front; and she scolds the servants from morning till night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Dismiss the whole lazy pack of indoor servants to-morrow, except Porcher. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You will remember that on hearing the sound of the quarrel she descended and returned with the other servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They suit so well about the servants they can't help liking each other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was in the evening, and we went in by the servants' entrance, as Eckert probably feared that he was watched. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Edited by Daniel