Sentence examples for few servants from inspiring English sources

Since the families employed few servants there are no poor houses or suburbs.

Agnes had a few servants and a couple of guards with her but she would not surrender.

Powell does nothing to romanticize poverty or domestic service, and considers the few servants who Stockholmishly identified with their masters as jack­asses.

In her book, A Rage for Rock Gardening, Nicola Shulman describes how the retinue consisted of a few servants and a couple of ponies.

In another mood she would strike a snobbish tone, using the word "housemaid" to describe people she disliked.Woolf's relationship with her few servants could be stormy.

There were funds to take a Georgian house on the Buckinghamshire estate of Lord Desborough, with a few servants, including Liggins the "houseparlourman".

"Very few servants were ever seen by guests, but they were all obviously very important to the estate," Ms. Busch said.

This one has a much more powerful impact because it's about longing -- for the Algerian soldier Eberhardt loves, for spiritual revelation, for a simple, wandering life with just a horse and "a few servants barely more complicated than my mount".

Without making the least song and dance about it, and without any political exhortations to anyone, she would go quietly along to the barracks with a few servants and feed up to twenty people a day.

If it was a crumbling gentility -- a big house but few servants -- that was the best kind for an artist manqué, because its isolation from the world's tawdriness was never completely successful.

There are precious few servant leaders in our current political environment.