116 Metaphors for servants

The negligence and impertinence of the servants in Italy were invariably attributed by her to the revolutionary principle and she told me that the servants in her native canton Bern were the best in the world, but that even in them the French Revolution had made a great deal of difference and that they were not so submissive as they used to be.

Your servant: Yet must I be a stone upon a hill, For tho

"It is a melancholy fact," he says, "that those servants in whom we reposed the most unlimited confidence have been the principal actors in this wicked scheme."

In one respect, I was essentially like our Saxon ancestors,my servant was a villain.

Her servants or kinsfolk are the trumpeters that summon any to his combat.

Of course, the servants might not be slack, time-serving, unfaithful.

Admit that the fugitive servant was a foreigner, and that he was not reduced to servitude on coming among the Jews, let me ask you whether the law in question, under this view of it, would be tolerated by the spirit of Southern slavery?and whether, before obedience would be rendered to it, you would not need to have a different type of servitude, in the place of slavery?

The servants, if not in liveryand it is difficult to get them to wear one, the dignity of caste interferingare almost invariably ill-dressed and slovenly in their appearance.

The path to success in love regularly lies through some sort of pecuniary fraud; and the crafty servant, who provides the needful sum and performs the requisite swindling while the lover is mourning over his amatory and pecuniary distresses, is the real mainspring of the piece.

"You probably know that in the Province of Pangasinán, of one of the towns in which your humble servant is a resident, the Spanish flag through our good fortune has not flown here for the past few months, since the few Spaniards who lived here have concentrated in Dagupan, a place not difficult of attack, as is said.

" "Surely," said Eustachio, "provided always that the servant is a man of exemplary character, and that he presumes not upon his lord's withdrawal to another sphere, trusting thereby to commit malpractices with impunity, but doth, on the contrary, deport himself as ever in his great taskmaster's eye.

Servants are difficult subjects for a young wife to handle: she generally either spoils them by indulgence, or ruins them by finding fault unfairly.

If hired servants were the superior classto apply for the situation, savored little of that sense of unworthiness that seeks the dust with hidden face, and cries "unclean."

The Chinese preserved intact their usual costume and mode of life; and the coloured servants of the ship's officers were the only ones who were occasionally well and even elegantly dressed.

His servants of all ages, were probably MANY THOUSANDS.

" Mortimer, being asked what would become of the fortune in the event of the marriage condition not being fulfilled, replies that by a clause in the will it would then go to the old servant above-mentioned, passing over and excluding the son; also, that if the son had not been living, the same old servant would have been sole residuary legatee.

My faithful servants were no meet guests, as it would seem, at a festival in honour of the House of Guise.

Certainly there are many ways by which servants may become blessings.

And then she told the story, with all its circumstances; and Dorcas, to point her lady's fears, told us, that the servant was a sun-burnt fellow, and looked as if he had been at sea.

your servant, madame, I am a very indifferent judge, you know: what, is it with sleeves?

If hired servants were the superior classto bespeak the situation, savored little of that sense of unworthiness that seeks the dust with hidden face, and cries "unclean."

But the servant I myself command is the pipes that draws its breath from the four winds, and from a wind is beyond them again, and at the back of the winds of the air.

The padre's two servants, an old woman and her boy, were the sole occupants of the establishment, and did not appear at all delighted to see us.

Her servants were a special care to her.

When they reached the rectory, the servants might all have been grandmothers from the way they received the woman and her child.

116 Metaphors for  servants