body-servants

With us are the cook and the two body-servants, riding of course: they carry meat, drink, and tobacco in my big tin cylinder intended to collect plants; and they prefer to give us cold whilst we fight for hot breakfasts.

The Land of Midian 2003

I had had no tents, no cooks, no body-servants: just my guards, who were fighting men, not servile: and behold these

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Prince de Conti that he sought to give pleasure as much to the valet as to the Minister, but he had shewn such skill in making of the least thing that he asked of them a sort of personal favour that at night, when, his body-servants assembled round him at a respectful distance, after running his eye over them he said:

The Guermantes Way 2003

Feeling overly con-fined by the relatively formal garments he'd been buttoned into this morning, Kyrtian ruined the efforts of his body-servants by restlessly unbuttoning the collar of his tunic and running his hands distractedly through his hair.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

She knew that one of H'daen's body-servants was on intimate terms with Ekkhae, who had been among those cleaning the dining-chamber last night, but she hadn't expected the gossip to travel quite so fast as this.

The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

She knew that one of H'daen's body-servants was on intimate terms with Ekkhae, who had been among those cleaning the dining-chamber last night, but she hadn't expected the gossip to travel quite so fast as this.

The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

The cosmopolitan, by this time standing, turned to me with a courteous motion of acquiescence; and, after having given me to understand by an agreeable smile that he did not confound me with his pair of victims, he said pompously, "The true cause was that each Northern freeholder demanded the use of two planters, now mostly octoroons, for body-servants."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

Out of mercy to the chivalry, I hope our government, in saving the Union, will not annihilate the order of body-servants.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The faithful body-servants who had religiously brought home every relic of the person or property of the great missionary explorer were accorded places of honor.

Stories Worth Rereading Various

These were usually called body-servants, and it was a body-servant's duty to cook, wash, and do general valet service for his master.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration