Sentence examples for servant go from inspiring English sources

Found in Luke 2 29 32, it is called the Nunc Dimittis for its first words in the Latin of the Vulgate Bible: Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum, in pace, "Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace, just as you promised".

First thing I get up in the morning, I ask her, 'Darling, will you get me a cup of tea?' 'I'm not a servant — go get your own cup of tea.' If she says that, I know I'm in the right house, she's my wife.

Helgi and the host of men ride away, and Sigrún and her servant go back to their house.

He adds it is no different from a civil servant going for dinner with a businessman.

Hadn't such talk from a public servant gone out of fashion decades ago?

But then the servant went to another man who owed him a small amount.

He was on a picket line, aged 14, when his mother, also a civil servant, went on strike in 1981.

The civil servant goes off to buy a meal at public expense – before booking into the hotel, which, of course, is paid for.

If a public servant went headhunting for a contractor and made his choice before accepting whatever terms the contractor sought to impose, he would soon be facing a charge of corruption.

This past week in synagogue, when I heard the reading of the story of Abraham's servant going to find Isaac a wife, I was struck by how closely the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony resembles the steps of Rebecca and Isaac's betrothal and marriage.

In his 16 years of police work, he had seen plenty of misbehaving servants go unpunished.