famulus

• But my ill luck still followed me, for my father once more caused me to go about with him as his famulus , and would never allow me on any pretext to escape this task. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
• Faust's former famulus, Dr. Wagner, has now become a world-renowned professor and is engaged in a great experiment, namely, in the production of a chemical man. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
• I know it-'tis my famulus-- My fairest fortune now escapes! —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.
• It was then that he attached himself to Luther as his famulus and house-companion during the closing months of Luther's life, began already to collect from surrounding friends passages of his vigorous "Table Talk," and remained with Luther till the last, having been present at his death in Eisleben in 1546. —  Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
• Or how they dressed themselves in valet's clothes, like Narbonne, and 'got to England as Dr. Bollman's famulus:' how Dame de Stael bestirred herself, pleading with Manuel as a Sister in Literature, pleading even with Clerk Tallien; a pray to nameless chagrins! —  The French Revolution

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