Sentence examples for lower servants from inspiring English sources

The lower servants -- kitchen maid, housemaids, groom, footmen, scullery maid and hall boy -- work morning, noon and night, seven days a week.

They have pleasant apartments within the servants' quarters, and the lower servants wake them in the morning, bring them tea, prepare their meals and treat them with almost military respect.

Anne's anger was only placated by an assurance from King William that she could choose all the lower servants of the household.

It is likely that in the 16th and 17th centuries they would have been occupied by the senior servants; the lower servants would have slept in any vacant corner or space on the ground or basement floors.

Moreover there were paid employees, often including a private chaplain or confessor, a major domo, governesses, secretary, archivist, accountant, librarian, and innumerable lower servants, such as a porter to ring a bell a prescribed number of times according to the rank of an approaching guest.

Mr. Rosengarten explains that the subject of his biographical portrait was a "high-toned gentleman". In 19th-century usage, he writes, this meant a man "carried himself with a vivid sense of role, who affected a distance between himself and people of lower birth, servants, and strangers.

This mass movement of peasants, workers, the urban unemployed, students and lower civil servants found an eager leadership among Lumumba's lieutenants, most of whom had regrouped to establish a National Liberation Council (CNL) in October 1963 in Brazzaville, across the Congo river from Kinshasa.

In terms of social status, those arrested for opium crimes hailed from petty entrepreneurial classes (peddlers and small shopkeepers) or the lower orders: servants, laborers, entertainers, and the like.

Without a spouse a woman in 18th century Sweden could have great difficulty supporting herself, especially as lower ranking servants were often promoted to maids and thereby lowering the number of employment opportunities for unmarried women.

Regarding segregation, the service zone was considered undesirable because of odor and mess, and was occupied by the lower-class servants (Whelan 2011; Cromley 2012).

Mary – stereotypical lower class servant to Ernestina Freeman and future wife to Sam Farrow.