Sentence examples for that servants from inspiring English sources

Then a fire broke out in the mansion and rescuers discovered evidence that servants had been chained up and maltreated.

Tocqueville noted that servants here acted like neighbors who have come in to lend a hand, and was frustrated by the committed chastity of American women.

Even progressive families have an unwritten rule that servants should not sit on the same furniture or use the same crockery as their employers.

To keep the book abreast of modern developments Mrs. Perkins has dropped the fancy recipes that servants used to make, and has substituted those for the busy houswife.

(The distance from kitchen to table could be so far in Georgian days that servants sometimes insulated the food with blankets).

Simel Esim and Monica Smith of the International Labour Organisation studied domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates, and concluded that servants were there in part to raise their mistresses' status by slotting into the household below them.

He embodied that servant-leadership throughout his ministry.

Many elected officials are more interested in personal power, individual legacy, and financial gain than in the sacrifice and commitment that servant leadership requires.

FUNCINPEC ministers in previous governments say that civil servants simply ignored their instructions.

However, one gets the impression that most servants were Irish or Northern European immigrants.

(This ignores the fact that civil servants and local government employees are taxpayers too).