Barbro felt herself no more at home there now than any other serving-maid; no more bound to the place.

Eleseus serving in a shop'twas not a whit better than being assistant at the store down in the village.

And most of all on Saturday evenings, the trading station at Storborg was crowded with folk, and Aron raking money in; his clerk and his wife were both called in to help behind the counter, and Aron himself serving and selling as hard as he could go at itand even then the place would not be empty till late at night.

Still, they would be commands coming in Ptolemy's name, and the universal experience of officers serving under the military despots of those ancient days showed that, rather than to take the responsibility of directly disobeying a royal order once received, it was safer to avoid receiving it by murdering the messengers.

Some days afterwards Hardress went shooting to the creek, and, believing that he had killed a serving-man, fled panic-stricken back to the house.

I would consider them as they appear to the poet and the painter, as they are connected with scenery, and with the romance and mythology of Nature, and as serving the purposes of religion and virtue, of freedom and happiness, of poetry and science, as well as those of mere taste and economy.

Theobald believed himself serving God, and doing a holy work, in killing a Calixtan.

In the East Indies, it is customary to keep a live turtle in the wayside water-tanks which are so precious in that thirsty land, the movements of the animal, as well as the industry with which it devours all noxious particles which chance may have conveyed into the waters, serving to keep them in a condition of purity and health.

And then yielding to her command Dick began again and told her the truth, serving Alan's memory well by the relation.

He's always serving me that same trick.

The utter silence of this servitor seemed portentous and inhuman to the young guest, unused to the polite convention that servants cast no shadow and do not exist save when serving their superiors.

The first things that assume shape and form in the recollections of my childhood are my mother, with her pretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, our faithful serving maid, with no shape at all, and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their whole neighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and red that I wonder the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.

In Louisiana the planters never think of serving out shoes to slaves.

Among the servants waiting was a young negro man, whose beautiful person, obliging and assiduous temper, and his activity and grace in serving, made him a favorite with the company.

But Washington, after serving two terms, refused to accept the office a third time.

The stables and the rough quarters for the serving-men were beyond.

The Duke noticed this youthful cup-bearer and asked the Bishop, "My lord of Grenoble, who is this young boy who is serving you?" "My lord," was the reply, "this is a man-at-arms whom I have come to present to you for your service if you will be pleased to accept him.

Fourteen years ago a man had tried to get his wife away from him, while he was serving a one-year bit in the county jail.

'I was serving my country,' he answered with a lofty air.

'I have been serving an apprenticeship to a certain handicraft which will, I doubt not, enable me so to supplement my own scanty resources that I shall be in better circum than hitherto.

When Miss Fouracres' aunt had gone, he paced for an hour or two about the garden; the hostess was serving cyclists.

These terms are borrowed from the Latin and Greek grammars, and, except as serving to diversify expression, are of little or no use in English grammar.

Harrison (loc. cit.) calls them "the finest light troops in the world"; and he had had full experience in serving with American and against British infantry.

At the moment he was serving Lord Dunmore and the whites; but he was by tastes, habits, and education a red man, who felt ill at ease among those of his own color.

If you let money, possessions, or any person keep you from serving the Lord with all of your heart, then you have an idol.