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  • Calling any of those elected weasles "Public Servants" is an insult to everybody who serves their country in countless ways, but without drivers, tailors, hairstylists, and outlandish benefits provided and/or sponsored by the government and "key constituents" with disproportionate access to elected officials.

    Reliable Sources: Journos reflect on Kennedy and the press 2009

  • Tenants grow rich, his Servants look satisfied, all the young Women profess Love to him, and the young Men are glad of his Company: When he comes into a House he calls the Servants by their Names, and talks all the way Up Stairs to a Visit.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • For years, my favorite was an odd place on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 125th Street with the duplex name Servants of God/A Taste of Seafood.

    A Taste Of Seafood In Harlem « 2009

  • There is a French religious Order of traditionalist friars called the Servants of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (new Order, 1988), which had 6 new priests this year (they wear black version of the Dominican habit with red Sacred Hearts emblem on scapular).

    Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008

  • There is a French religious Order of traditionalist friars called the Servants of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (new Order, 1988), which had 6 new priests this year (they wear black version of the Dominican habit with red Sacred Hearts emblem on scapular).

    The New Beginning papabear 2008

  • Entitled Servants of the Wankh, it caused the teenaged me some embarrassment as I placed it, face down, before the librarian.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Tim Stretton 2008

  • Entitled Servants of the Wankh, it caused the teenaged me some embarrassment as I placed it, face down, before the librarian.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • And, you know, one thing very few people understand is that in 1948 an organization known as the Servants of the Paracletes were organized.

    CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2007 2007

  • Bruce reviewed his troops very carefully; all the useless servants, drivers of carts, and such like, of whom there were very many, he ordered to go behind a great height, afterward, in memory of the event, called the Gillies 'hill, that is, the Servants' hill.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Trudaine in housekeeping (one of the sort called Servants in the days of the Tyrants).

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

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