Sentence examples for poor servants from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

The City had been "an incredibly poor servant of the real economy" for years and should be helping business grow and create jobs, he told activists.

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.

Ring in hand, the poor servant girl breaks the witch's curse and turns the pigeon back into a prince.

For Griet, van Straalen employed "... pale colors for Scarlett Johansson to give her the drab look of a poor servant girl".