For instance, the names used to denote the two political parties in Spain, Serviles and Liberates, are obviously chosen by the latter.

It remains to be seen whether my pity for her dumbness, or some servile tendency toward fellowship in myself, will result in any further lesson.

One of the reasons why we have so long been mere serviles on this point, is owing to the incompleteness of the establishments of the different leading presses of the country.

Was he servile?

The serpents that lie in wait for their prey are endurable; for we know that it is their nature to be cunning and relentless: but to see men of intellect and education sly and snaky, ferocious, yet servile to the utmost, makes one almost believe in total depravity.

I had come here for a purpose,to carry out the plan which a despotic government and its servile agents had prevented me from doing in my native city.

Another circumstance which marks the progress of constitutional liberty, is the gradual diminution in the number of our northern serviles.

Another circumstance which marks the progress of constitutional liberty, is the gradual diminution in the number of our northern serviles.

She is always unassuming, always ready to oblige others; but it is not pleasing to see her so timid, so almost servile.

"I tell her it's hard for you to leave your candles, especially now when people are coming in for high mass, but I can take your place, and," with a servile smile, "madame is generous.

As the keen arrow, hurl'd with giant-might, Rends the thin air in its impetuous flight, But being spent on earth innoxious lies, E'en its track vanish'd from the yielding skies So lies the soldan, stopp'd his bright career, His vanquish'd realms their prostrate heads uprear, And coward kings forget their servile fear.

19. Away, ye imitators, servile herd!

To censure all dedications as adulatory and servile, would discover rather envy than justice.

A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade: There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me.

The reference to Canute's House brings to mind the tradition, stoutly upheld by Hamptonians, that it was at "Canute's Point" at the mouth of the Itchen, and not at Bosham or Lymington, that the king gave his servile courtiers the historic rebuke chronicled by Camden.

But in trying the fiery cure of a servile insurrection, we should run the risk of converting the whole white population of the South into devils of the most desperate sort, with whom any kind of reconciliation, even truce, would be impossible.

[20] But this somewhat servile proceeding produced no adequate result, as his envoy received only ambiguous answers, and all he could accomplish was to extort a promise from Henri III that on his return to Paris he would discuss the affair with the Queen-mother and the Duc d'Alençon.

How forcibly applicable, on the present occasion, is the following extract:"from the intercourse of England with the East and West Indies, it is to be feared that something of a more servile spirit has been derived than was known among those who established the free constitutions of Europe, and than would have been adopted, or patiently borne, in ages of virtuous simplicity.

These admonitions are not designed to cultivate a servile or an abject spirit, but to promote a wholesome sense of our own limitations, weaknesses and dependence.

The gentleman with the strawberry sash and uncertain morals and his servile subjects disappear, giving place "to men who have business or good sense in their faces, and come to the coffee-house either to transact affairs or enjoy conversation.

The student of oratory should not be a servile copyist.

Servile imitations, plagiarism, stupid adaptations, put to death all art and all poetry.

Thrown upon his own resources, he soon developed, by careful observation of nature and a constant study of cause and effect, a system and a style radically differing from those of the professors and their servile imitators.

Homer Smith quotes as Halliwell's the description of the play as 'one of the finest specimens of pastoral poetry in our language, partaking of the best properties of Guarini's and Tasso's poetry, without being a servile imitation of either.'

Blind madness his haughty stomach spurred, And he slandered the Godhead with sinful word, And strutting in pride he blasphemed, the crowd Of servile courtiers applauding loud.