Sentence examples for servants break from inspiring English sources

The movie is a dramatization of the many varieties of love and friendship and a charged meditation on the relations between theatre and life; at the climax, the aristocrats put on an entertainment, and the servants break into the party with wild violence that the guests mistake for another divertissement.

In the 1880s, Josephine Garis Cochrane, the daughter of an engineer, tired of servants breaking her fine china and decided to work on perfecting a dishwasher.

Servants "have broken my spirit and ruined my health," one friend tells the author, who went under the name of An Experienced Mistress.

An ex-colleague of Byers acknowledged that the continued leaks underlined how far relations between the minister and his civil servants had broken down in the department.

According to news reports, he has annoyed senior civil servants by breaking protocol and turning up at a weekly meeting for permanent secretaries.

In 1886, socialite Josephine Cochrane was annoyed that her servants kept breaking her china.

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

And then a family of servants arrives and breaks all her rules.

His regime has raised public servants' pay and broken a taboo by agreeing to talk to the Muslim Brothers.

On the landing, three public servants were taking a break.

As you'll know from last year's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (a film that's actually got Oscar buzz this side of the pond), should you need a hip replacement, you can easily obtain it – plus new friends, potential lovers, great grub, spiritual enlightenment and genuflecting servants – on a colourful break to the old country.