16 Metaphors for attendant

It is said, that his only attendant was a slave, who had been bred up with him, and who was therefore not ignorant of the same language.

In Spanish and Flemish art, the usual attendants on the queenly Madonna are monks and nuns, which brings us to the consideration of a large and interesting class of pictures, those dedicated by the various religious orders.

But, all the same, when one has taken the trouble to whack out a highly juicy scheme to benefit an in-the-soup friend in his hour of travail, it's pretty foul to find him giving the credit to one's personal attendant, particularly if that personal attendant is a man who goes about the place not packing mess-jackets.

The natural attendant of food is sleep; in which the animal forbears not only all his outward motions, but also all the principal inward operations which might too much stir and dissipate the spirits.

The attendants here were Japanese girls in native costume, and the long table was laid with a lace cloth over pink satin, with butterfly bows of pink tulle.

Kusa-grass, a scented grass, much used at sacrifices for laying offerings on, &c. Kuvera, the God of Wealth, whose attendants were the Yakshas.

Negresses suckle them when they are infants, their nurses are negresses, their attendants are negressesand I have often seen girls of eight or ten years of age taken to school, or any other place, by young negroes.

Besides these attendants are several eunuchs on horseback, accompanied by a multitude of pagys, or lackeys, on foot, with large canes, who advance a great way before the Princess, both to the right and left, for the purpose of clearing the road and driving before them every intruder.

Attendants on the Person.-"No man is a hero to his valet," saith the proverb; and the corollary may run, "No lady is a heroine to her maid."

The attendants at that of the King were the Princes de Condé, de Conti, and de Montpensier; while the Queen was waited on by the Dues de Vendôme, de Guise, and de Vaudemont; the Legate by the Comte de Candale and the Marquis de Rosny; and the Duchess of Mantua by the Baron de Bassompierre and the Comte de Sault.

" Her only attendants were an Italian maid and her apothecary, whose constant care was required from the precarious state both of her bodily and mental health; but she nevertheless maintained a self-command and composure which astonished all by whom she was approached.

The attendants were women called 'Sisters of Charity,' who have a peculiar costume.

" "Irechester says that?" "Mr. Saffron's medical attendant is Dr. Arkroyd.

If your attendant be a Mussulman, he hurries down as soon as you shoot a deer, to cut its throat.

The one attendant on his perch behind was a fur-clad statue of servitude and silence.

As he sleeps in the interior apartments, which no male is allowed to approach, his attendants are either females or eunuchs.

16 Metaphors for  attendant