Sentence examples for old retainer from inspiring English sources
The old Retainer polished brass.
An old retainer writes: That remark is uncalled for.
"Wrinkled old retainer," he says, "seven letters". I am some way off the mark.
His last stage appearance was as the old retainer Firs in The Cherry Orchard at Chichester in 2008.
He was murdered, I see, by an old retainer who believed that Fulke had cut him out of his will.
What else can I say, except that old retainer of slights and wrongs, that bad boy I hadn't quite outgrown — I'd brought him along, too.
As my old granny often used to observe, you should never trust old retainers.
He keeps the loyalty and affection of substantial old retainers (Les Hinton, for instance, who gets idiotically short shrift here).
Ten years into what can loosely be called a career, they are the old retainers at Rough Trade Records, the label's longest-serving loyalists.
And, despite giving evidence of Paul's kindness and generosity to friends, pupils, and old retainers, Waugh makes no effort to conceal his hero's estrangement from the compromises that lubricate everyday life.
This is him, in Simple French Food: "Stews form the philosophical cornerstone of French family cooking: they embody – or spark – something akin to an ancestral or racial memory of farmhouse kitchens – of rustic tables laid by mothers, grandmothers or old retainers.
