Phr. non possumus [Lat.]; your humble servant [Iron.]; bien oblige [Fr.]; not on your life

I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat.]

I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat.]

ame damnee [Fr.], tool; reptile; slave &c (servant) 746; courtier; beat [Slang], dead beat [Slang], doughface

[Lat.]; servant of God, well done!

There you shall deliver yourself as a servant unto a damsel of King Arthur's court, hight Yelande, surnamed the Dumb Maiden.

Her you are to tell that the youth who slew Sir Boindegardus hath sent you unto her as a servant.

Suspicious inquiry after him and the lady by a servant in livery from one Captain Tomlinson.

that by description of our persons, and not by names, by a servant in a blue livery turn'd up and trimm'd with yellow.

Dorcas was called to him, as the upper servant; and she refusing to answer any of the fellow's questions, unless he told his business, and from whom he came, the fellow (as short as she) said, that if she would not answer him, perhaps she might answer somebody else; and went away out of humour.

The livery and the features of the servant were particularly inquired after, and as particularly describedLord bless her!

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.

He was then, no doubt, Captain Singleton's servant, and the next news she should hear, was, that the house was surrounded by a whole ship's crew; the vessel lying no farther off, as she understood, than Rotherhithe.

And why may it not rather be a servant of your cousin Morden, with notice of his arrival, and of his design to attend you?

Your servant, Sir,Mr. Lovelace, I presume?

When I sent my servant, I did not know that I should find time to do myself this honour.

" He that marries a wife out of a suspected inn or alehouse, buys a horse in Smithfield, and hires a servant in Paul's, as the diverb is, shall likely have a jade to his horse, a knave for his man, an arrant honest woman to his wife.

One poisons, another strangles himself, and the King of China had done as much, deluded with the vain hope, had he not been detained by his servant.

Now, syr, for their sakes, for my masters sake, for all our sakes use the authority of a mayster to searche, and showe the power you have over a servant to comand.

Oh frend, oh servant! Clown.

Your doughters and your servant ever.

You can correct no more then is your own; I am but halfe yours to commaund, if you steale away any parte that is not your owne you are so farre in daunger as the striking of an other mans servant.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, J.R. POINSETT.

A mistress of my acquaintance asked her servant boy, one day, what was the reason she could not get him to do his work whilst his master was away, and said to him, "Your master works a great deal harder than you do; he is at his office all day, and often has to study his law cases at night."

Mr. Sherman saw no more propriety in the public seizing and surrendering a slave or servant, than a horse.