Sentence examples for army of servants from inspiring English sources
Naima was joined by an army of servants, lent by neighbors, whom she managed with a new authority.
But he does not employ an army of servants, and, inside, the place is homey and unostentatious.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, his family moved to an estate in the English countryside, where a small army of servants ran the household.
Here, where she writes and spends most of her day, she has none of the small army of servants considered necessary by middle-class Delhi.
Black shadows add sinister mass to the master's army of servants, while white transfigures the victims' death as an exquisite snowfall covers their corpses.
Finding himself in the state bedroom he tries on some fine clothes and a wig but is then mistaken by a fawning army of servants for the prince himself.
Some stories are set in cold-water flats rented for a few dollars a month, others in marble mansions attended by armies of servants.
The vast mansions, armies of servants, and huge yachts of the 1920s were no more; by 1955 the typical executive, Fortune claimed, lived in a smallish suburban house, relied on part-time help and skippered his own relatively small boat.
Today, of course, the mansions, armies of servants and yachts are back, bigger than ever — and any hint of policies that might crimp plutocrats' style is met with cries of "socialism".
They were monuments to a bygone social era, one in which the rich could afford the armies of servants needed to maintain a house the size of a European palace.
