Sentence examples for for their servants from inspiring English sources

Top families used to have special buttons made for their servants' liveries incorporating monograms or heraldic themes - coronets, crests, fabulous beasts, and so on.

It toys with the conventions of yesterday in an absurd way – the Bellacourt matriarch Dodo (Paget Brewster) is addicted to morphine, no one is literate enough to read a telegram, and the Bellacourts wait for their servants to undress them before getting it on.

Lindhome says that this was the same house with the brick walls in the servants' quarters, an estate called the Elms, a home built in the late 1800s by the Berwind family – they counted Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany as personal friends, and refused even the most logical requests for time off from their servants.

Indeed, as far as European powers taking a hard line on Hannibal is concerned, we must award a rare thumbs up to Switzerland, which, in 2008, held both him and Aline in police custody for two days for allegedly beating their servants.

The first was the national administrative staff colleges like INTAN in Malaysia and MIPAM in Mauritius which newly independent countries set up to provide pre- and in-service training for their civil servants.

But when war broke out, like the rest of the country, the group lived on strict rations, and cooked for themselves while their servants were occupied with the war effort.

Under its ruling Medici, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York has been shaped as a place for the masters and their servants.

Beginning with his reign, Bevato became the second most important compound after Mahandrihono and enclosed four houses for royal wives and their servants.

There are a couple of Sundance winners too: Kim Longinotto's Rough Aunties documentary about the women who put their lives at risk looking after the abused children of Durban and, on a somewhat lighter note, The Maid, a comedy about a Chilean family's attempt to find assistance for their grumpy servant.

5 P.M. (Showtime) GOSFORD PARK (2001) In Robert Altman's mystery, set at a grand English country estate in November 1932, a coterie of aristocrats and their servants gather for a weekend shooting party during which their host, Sir William McCordle Michael Gambonn) is murdered.

The film, set in November 1932, takes place on a grand country estate where well over a dozen aristocrats and their servants gather for a weekend shooting party during which their host, Sir William McCordle Michael Gambonn), is murdered.