Sentence examples for of their servants from inspiring English sources

No mention is made of the number of their servants.

The lives of the Stanfords' dogs are better documented than those of their servants.

My favourite is this satirical comedy, where the extravagant eccentricity of the d'Arfey and Mountfaucon families is splendidly matched by the gothic excesses of their servants.

Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, were notorious for their stinginess, billing of personal expenses to taxpayers, and abuse of their servants.

Mrs. Siegel has to fly commercial and drive her own car, the kids are sent to public school and live in filth after laying off 15 of their servants.

Well-to-do secular families who serve liquor in their big city homes nervously talk of their servants "doing a Qadri," voicing a fear that the flotilla of help that is common among the privileged will turn on their patrons.

One of Salomon's early gouaches illustrates, in detail, her family's eleven-room apartment, including the quarters of their servant, in the chic suburb of Charlottenburg.

By Marc Connelly The New Yorker, March 24 , 1928P. 19 Couple on way to Europe tell story of their servant's misfortune and how they were discharged prior to the couple sailing for abroad.

"July's People," a 1981 novel about a white family fleeing civil war with the help of their servant, July, was commended by the Swedish Academy, which awarded Ms. Gordimer the Nobel Prize in 1991.

But whereas the earlier book was set in a nameless African state, here the location is explicitly South Africa, where revolution has driven a white, liberal family out of Johannesburg into the protection of their servant, July, in a small village riven with its own conflicts which is none too happy to shelter them.

Her story is a particularly perverse tale of what former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg once envisioned as the luxury city, a place to accommodate the rich and house the members of their servant class.