Sentence examples for servant life from inspiring English sources

The "Mary Poppins" books are transfixing and original, trading sharp drawing-room comedy with fantastical adventures and carefully rendered scenes of servant life.

Now retired from a career of teaching in Manhattan, Mr. Silvia, the son of a Portuguese gardener who worked on the estates of Newport, has a unique perspective on servant life on the American continent.

Making herself into a magnet, the author again plunged into reading matter: "Ants, bees, Amazon travels, Darwin, books about Victorian servant life, butterflies and moths — resisting, rather than searching out useful metaphors, but nevertheless finding certain recurring patterns".

They found in the routines of servant life a readymade structure for their loving rituals: hand inspections, foot-washing, boot-licking ('I can always tell where you've bin by the taste o' your boots,' she once told him) and 'petting'petting

And just as in Munby's journal there is a sense of an encircling London servant life, full of pain and pleasure for him, so it was for me, with Marian; though I closed my mind to what she did when she wasn't with me, there came fragments, developing after a time into a full picture, of a frightening and brutal council-estate life I had never really known.

Thomas Foley, a young civil servant living a quiet life in Tooting with his wife Sylvia and their baby daughter Gill (who appears as an adult in an earlier novel, The Rain Before it Falls), is dispatched to Brussels with the mission of overseeing the pub for the six months of the fair.

A servant's life in Mumbai Domestic workers are an established feature of Indian life, but they are getting harder to find as more lucrative roles lure them away.

That is not to say, of course, that a servant's life was easy.

The photos had made that "if" real to him: the seriousness of the crime in question, the extent to which the alleged acts were an assault not only on the woman but on the entire system of order and meaning to which a great public servant's life should be devoted.

Even so, the servant's life remained luxurious compared with that of the London factory worker, who sometimes shared a bed with four others and whose proudly purchased burial insurance — designed to provide a death more dignified than the life preceding it — amounted to "the second-largest fixed household cost after rent".

The shift to a system of African slavery in Virginia was propelled by the legal cases of John Punch, who was sentenced to lifetime slavery in 1640 for attempting to run away, and of John Casor, who was claimed by Anthony Johnson as his servant for life in 1655.