Sentence examples for one servant from inspiring English sources

Mr. Van Ness, a stockbroker, is listed next door with his wife, also named Adelaide, and one servant.

Cornelius Demarest, a lime dealer, for instance, lived with his family of four and one servant at 174.

The 1910 census lists Mr. Brush, a prominent builder, and his wife, Adelaide, as the residents, along with one servant.

A typical apartment in the building had three bedrooms, and each family listed in the census had one servant.

They had one servant, Gochi, an old and tattered sweeper woman who called her employers Sahibji and Bibiji — respectful forms of address that I, too, adopted.

The family had just one servant, Tanaka, probably the woman immortalised in a brown dress in The Milkmaid and other works.

"Should we now be pushing back on this steer?" one civil servant asks.

In a lengthy memo sent on Friday to David McVean, deputy director of the DfE, one civil servant reported on the next steps the department would take to "support the [IMG] on migration".

Notably, in many smaller municipalities, only one civil servant works on public transport and its procurement; larger, average-sized municipalities may employ two or more.

It has been estimated that there is now one civil servant per 30 children working on making free schools a success.

Cash-poor, he is without the means to repair it, and maintains his household with just one domestic servant, Lao Huang (Ye Xiaokeng), an old retainer from his late father's time.