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  • He was accompanied by a youth of seventeen or eighteen whom he called his servant.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • The Civil Servants have been doing nothing but moving since 1999 and the majority of them place particular emphasis on the word servant.

    Reshuffle is Hard when you dont have a full Deck - Valleys Mam 2007

  • He was accompanied by a youth of seventeen or eighteen whom he called his servant.

    Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

  • He was accompanied by a youth of seventeen or eighteen whom he called his servant.

    Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions Frank Harris 1893

  • The spirit of "doulos" had displaced her antipathy toward the word servant.

    Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889

  • A master is such-a-one as by his situation, arising either from force or agreement, has a power of directing in certain particulars the actions of another, whom we call servant.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

  • A master is such-a-one as by his situation, arising either from force or agreement, has a power of directing in certain particulars the actions of another, whom we call servant.

    A treatise of human nature 1739

  • A master is such-a-one as by his situation, arising either from force or agreement, has a power of directing in certain particulars the actions of another, whom we call servant.

    A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

  • They quickly shouted out that they had found someone inside, and upon pulling the servant, Pepe, out of his room, my father-in-law identified him as the live-in servant.

    An unexpected visit 2003

  • They quickly shouted out that they had found someone inside, and upon pulling the servant, Pepe, out of his room, my father-in-law identified him as the live-in servant.

    An unexpected visit 2003

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