Sentence examples for elderly servant from inspiring English sources

An elderly servant opened the door and led me to the inner courtyard, where jasmine plants surrounded a fountain.

He remembers Lisabeth, the elderly servant who used to clean his room, how she would set out to mass.

He had to order an elderly servant named Joseph to wake him at dawn, promising payment if he succeeded in rousting him out of bed.

After his death in 2008, an Indonesian Web portal dedicated to paranormal activity published an account by an elderly servant who said that Mr. Suharto's ghost was still there and occasionally pinched and poked him.

We see her growing awareness of her power when she co-opts Irina's bedroom for her little son and her capacity for cruelty when she mistreats an elderly servant (Barbara Oliver) who has been with the family for 30 years.

His intermission arrives at the end of Act II, when a serendipitous encounter in the forest of Arden, and an act of kindness, seem to have saved the lives of Orlando and his elderly servant, Adam Tim Barloww).

It's nearer to an American version of Ikuru, Kurosawa's masterly study of an elderly civil servant nearing death who finds something to redeem a seemingly worthless life.

A mass exodus of elderly civil servants is expected in the run-up to the new regime.

Galgut gives even seemingly innocuous details sinister overtones: the clicking of peacocks on a roof, the shuffling steps of Canning's elderly black servants.

The foreign couple's savvy, elderly Chinese servants, Ahcho and Mai Lin, eventually lead them on an odyssey back to one another and to a truer understanding of the world around them.

The Chinese government undertook a series of measures according to WHO guidelines, including free vaccinations against pandemic influenza to populations at high risk (e.g., the elderly, public servants in key positions, students, teachers, and people with chronic diseases) [ 22].