Sentence examples for servants around from inspiring English sources
The Rostov girls are "always smiling at something (probably their own happiness)"; one of them, Natasha, loves to order the servants around, but they "liked carrying out Natasha's orders as they did no one else's".
I think I can remember, sometimes, that we rutted like animals without all those servants around.
So did Mr Kan's despair at the civil servants around him, many of whom came from the elite University of Tokyo.
It creates a Chatham House environment where members can have discussions with key ministers and civil servants around some of the big issues that we face as chairs of public bodies.
Was this aristocrat merely a foolish eccentric who liked to put a broom between his legs to chase his servants around the house, or was he a dangerous and sadistic lunatic, a threat not just to his household but to the entire established order?
Yes, there are plenty of servants around to attend to your every need... but they're on the Queen's eating schedule during formal banquets.
People want efficient government, but they don't want lots of civil servants nosing around in the intimate details of their lives; nor do they necessarily want the taxman to know about their health.
This year, however, the rink sits silent, no screams of children frolicking and falling on the ice, no civil servants gliding around on their lunch hour — in fact, there is no ice.
In April 2005, the government raised the salaries of the civil servants by around 60%.
In movies and television, there's a long, honorable tradition, still alive, of the straight-talking sidekick, but, in the clichéd context of "Monster-in-Law," having a black servant around to talk back to her mistress is a mortifying reversion to comic devices from sixty years ago, when Eddie Anderson's Rochester sassed Jack Benny.
No, she may not have twenty servants following her around and a personal stylist, or be a celebrity or something.
