Sentence examples for poor servant from inspiring English sources

It has open-mouth kisses, lots of flesh and a poor servant girl full of glass shards.

But when word comes that her father has died, and his fortune has been lost to boot, Miss Minchin relegates Sarah to a gloomy attic, where she clings to the friendship of a poor servant girl.

The story is about Santosh, a poor servant from Bombay who accompanies his master, a diplomat, to Washington, D.C. Santosh is utterly lost in America, but he eventually marries an African-American woman and thus gains the right to stay.

Shimmering with ambiguity and allusions to Hindu myths, its depiction of a poor servant who lay dying in the hall of an apartment building is as far from numerical precision as writing can get.

Party leader Ed Miliband said the City had been "an incredibly poor servant of the real economy", adding that banks should be doing more to help businesses grow.

He argued financial services have been "an incredibly poor servant of the real economy" for decades and should be "serving" the needs of small business.

It was only when he instructed his librettists to create the character of a poor servant-girl, Liu, who commits suicide rather than betray the opera's hero, that he was able to continue.

Mr Al Aswany draws a motley array of characters (poor servants, wealthy cads, closeted homosexuals, hustling tailors) who go about their lives in ways that shed light on the complexities and corruption of modern Egypt.

A poor young servant with a faint moustache, Zilpah is a snake in the grass who keeps stealing Emily's men, ­becoming Tom's lover and earning the affection of Emily's controlling father.

She did not behave or speak in the way of the women he normally met, for she had always inhabited an indefinite space, neither rich nor poor, neither servant nor begum, in a city where the very concept of a middle class still found expression in only a few households, among managers of banks and of big industrial concerns — sugar and textiles and steel.

And what had happened beforehand was the poor public servants in Canberra are up all night effectively told to bring out your dead – find all the programs that you fund through executive power that have no legislation supporting them and give us a list of them.