The money had been expended in the purchase of a disreputable old canary bird, for which Noaks, the manservant, had agreed to find board and lodging during the Christmas vacation.

Suddenly the door was thrown open and a manservant rushed inpale, confused, terror-stricken.

And at her age, it would be too sad..." Across the drawing-room that lady looked up from her cards and sharply interrogated a manservant who had silently presented himself to her attention.

It must be a new servant with the new house, and a manservant too.

The old manservant was in the room in an instant.

But one day as he was tramping round the farm, with his staff upon his shoulder, he came upon a beautiful maiden sleeping in the deep grass of a meadow, with two women and a manservant slumbering at her feet.

A sleepy manservant, half-dressed and warm from his bed, entered.

To one side stood a manservant to whom Sofia paid no attention till the sound of his name on Karslake's tongue struck an echo from her memory.

He had not been at home when Julian had taken the news of the Squire's accident to the Abbey, and only menservants had come to the rescue.

A household of elderly menservants presented a problem with which she knew she would find it difficult to deal.

A MANSERVANT in his house.

I merely told her of my intention of keeping a manservant, when she fell into an extraordinary paroxysm.

It is open on fixed days, and free save that one manservant receives the visitor and another conducts him from room to room.

Lady Maulevrier's maid was also in attendance, and one of the menservants slept in his clothes on a couch in the corridor, ready for any emergency.

My heart beat quickly; I hurried in the direction from which the sound came, and to my joy found two menservants of the monasterywho were driving their mules into shelter.

'John' (to the manservant), 'take this key and bring me account book No. 6 B, Copse Farm; that will be the best way to begin.'

" The soldiers, who were to return immediately to Colonel William Johnson, rode away with their horses, and Robert, Tayoga and Willet took their packs into the house of Mynheer Huysman, who grumbled incessantly while he and a manservant and a maidservant made them as comfortable as possible.

I can recall three colored men, Abraham, Peter, and Jacob, who acted as menservants in our youth.

If the words of the compound are both nouns, and are of equal importance, both are given a plural ending [manservant, menservants].

If the words of the compound are both nouns, and are of equal importance, both are given a plural ending [manservant, menservants].

This was only a passing expression, however; it rapidly gave place to sorrow, when she saw the manservant coming from the sick man.

Or ... the general's wife? Polesski rushed to look for the manservant, but could not find him.

We drew upit was getting darkand an old manservant with a paternal air came out, took possession of my bag, and led me through a small vestibule into a long hall, with a fire burning in a great open fireplace.

These floors will by no means bear water, so that the method of cleaning them is to have them waxed, and then a manservant with foot brushes drives round your room, dancing here and there like a Merry Andrew.

Staid, dignified women who teach Sunday-school classes at home, who would not permit a white manservant to touch them, lean on their donkey-boys as if they were human balustrades.