Sentence examples for servant in a from inspiring English sources

A widower, Farjami lives with his longtime servant in a friend's house.

Or was it more likely for an African-American to be the only servant in a smaller household?

"He was very good at being a public servant in a position of leadership, and I think he missed it".

Born in a workhouse in Cork, he endured hard work on farms until he became a servant in a castle in Dublin.

A mix-up connects a young Hindu woman with an aging Christian widower who is a civil servant in a dreary claims department.

Obeid's spectacular fall comes after lobbying a senior public servant in a 2007 phone call about a series of lucrative Circular Quay leases without revealing his family's interests.

Her character is a former servant in an affluent late-19th-century household, making a confession decades later.

To echo the minister's words, don't be that anonymous civil servant in an inaccessible Whitehall.

In the sworn disclosure statements, the executives said they had not paid a public servant in an illegal attempt to gain influence, records show.

Le Monde revealed yesterday how Sarkozy, by calling and interrogating the head of intelligence service on the Gaddafi investigation, put such a senior civil servant in an untenable position.

Most of these skills remain unused, although my friend Rodney had a chance to test them when he was cast as a black servant in an end-of-term production of The Little Foxes.