Sentence examples for by two servants from inspiring English sources

This is immediately seized by two servants of Yama, the god of death, who carry it to their master for a preliminary identity check.

Falstaff is hidden in a basket filled with dirty laundry and carried away by two servants, puzzled by their cargo's weight.

"Forgive your assassin!" He is answered, first by a great dismal chord from the last act of Don Giovanni, then by two servants, who are bringing the cream cakes they hope will shut him up, but end up breaking the down the door.

They are greeted by two servants who show them to their rooms.

She is the daughter of a government official close to the president, and her home is a grand house run by six servants.

His last wish was not entirely respected: Pedro II sent a carriage used for funerals of members of the imperial family only, to be followed by sixteen servants of the imperial household, and one corporal and thirteen, not six, soldiers of good conduct to carry his remains.

There are sometimes three concurrent and differing stories: that of the Male and Female Chorus (who, in Ronald Duncan's libretto, are the Christian interpreters of the "pagan" story); there's the viewpoint offered by Lucretia's two servants who, in my production, are omnipresent; and there's the main story of the rape.

No cardinal was allowed, unless ill, to be attended by more than two servants.

In this modern, US-set version, the two servants are played by Uzo Aduba, a double Emmy-winner for her performance as Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warrenen in Orange Is The New Black, and Zawe Ashton of Fresh Meat fame, seen in Splendour at the Donmar Warehouse last year.

The two servants' rooms were 9 by 11 feet — noticeably larger than many servants' rooms in top buildings now on Park and even Fifth Avenue, typically 6 by 10.

"I am appalled to see how much of modern history was set in motion by two civil servants called Sykes and Picot".