Sentence examples for at a servants from inspiring English sources

No more would a Harold Nicolson do the coast-to-coast lecture circuit, be received in one Peoria after another by ladies in cherried hats offering cookies, announce that the two democracies were standing shoulder to shoulder facing the foe to the east, and then return to London saying that it had been "like a month at a servants' ball".

He described himself at that time as a servant of the servant of the servant of God, and that made him most happy".

Born into an upstate New York farm family whose lineage went back to the Mayflower, she started working as a servant at the age of twelve.

They'd learn that it wasn't as much fun as it seems to work as a servant at Downton Abbey, and conversely that life in a grim Victorian factory could be better than life as a Georgian farm worker.

But what role would he have as a servant at Downton Abbey?

At least, the fact that in today's world, no one wishes to be seen as a "master" and no one wishes to be seen as a "servant", is at its heart.

She embraced me tentatively, then looked at a servant and said, "Ali, show her to her room".

And something from their historical range, in which a long-haired baronet in unbuttoned blouse gazes hard at a servant girl, sexy weather lighting the night.

The New York Times film critic A. O. Scott may have been describing Ms. Danes when he said of her character in "Me and Orson Welles": "Sonja is both ingénue and woman of the world, at once a servant of the muse and a calculating careerist".

"Look at what a servant he has become for the club".

This is a place, the place of struggle, where "one's nature neither honors nor forgives" and grand ambitions are grounded by a humble spirit of service -- almost like a slave, or at least a servant.