English example sentences with "servant"

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Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

Please ring for the servant.

The Joneses pay their servant by the week.

"My lady is in her chamber," said the servant.

I made him my servant.

Although I am her elder, she treats me as if I were her servant.

The servant gradually adjusted to his new surroundings.

The servant swept the floor.

Treat your servant more kindly.

He has only one servant to attend on him.

He is, so to speak, her servant.

He was made my servant.

He is rich enough to keep a servant.

He got angry and told off his servant.

The public servant leaked the secret and he was prosecuted for revealing a state secret.

Where might is master, justice is servant.

The old woman sent a servant for the trunk.

You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word.

A prudent bird chooses its tree. A wise servant chooses his master.

My father was a civil servant, and my mother wasn't doing anything either.

I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.

The mind should be a good servant, but the heart should be the master.

If you behave like a servant, you'll be treated like a servant.

If you behave like a servant, you'll be treated like a servant.

She just had to use her Puss-In-Boots look and I was her devoted servant.

Markets make a good servant, a bad master and a terrible religion.

A cat is an unfaithful servant which we only keep by necessity.

Do you want to be my servant and follow me?

I'm not your servant.

Dismissing the frightened servant, Mary went alone into the room and closed the door.

The mind is a good servant, but a poor master.

A manservant is a man who works as a servant in a private house.

Be a servant of the intelligent man, but never the master of a fool.

The servant led me to a very beautiful room, which served simultaneously as a living room and office in the engineer's house.

An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.

An honest farmer had once a donkey that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.

Our faithful servant died in the hospital.

Tom was a public servant.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

I want to hire a servant.

Shut up, servant of hell!

A member of the public who has reasonable grounds to believe that a civil servant has a conflict of interest may request an official opinion respecting the alleged contravention.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Tell your sister to follow those rules. I'm not your servant.

His mother refused to pay for his education so while at college he worked as a servant to pay his way.

The servant went out into the highways and hedges and compelled people to come to his master's fast.

I was a public servant.

You may imagine the surprise of the prince's mother when she saw her son return accompanied by a bear, who at once set about doing the house-work better than any servant that the queen had ever seen.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

"If you're thirsty," said the maid, "dismount yourself, and lie down by the water and drink; I don't mean to be your servant any longer."

And the servant came and chopped the Tree into little pieces.

Tom wasn't a servant.

I am your servant.

You are my servant.

I'm your servant.

The scandal effectively ended Tom's career as a public servant, so he decided to become a political analyst.

That I may stay a pious servant of Thine for aye and drive the plagues that try us and tyranny away.

The man beckoned his servant to come to him.

Lestrade stopped and tapped at a door, which was opened by a small servant girl.

A: When now it is far in the evening, and no more are expeċted to come, an old servant comes out with a hoary beard, shorn head, grim look, mean cloaths. B: It behoved such to be cup-bearers to the Roman cardinals.

A: Now when it is far into the evening, and no more are expeċted to arrive, an old servant comes out with a hoary beard, shorn head, grim look, dirty clothing. B: This kind often like to be cup-bearers to the Roman cardinals.

For there is no difference betwixt a poor man and a rich, betwixt a master and a servant.

For there is no difference between a poor man and a rich man, or between a master and a servant.

What does it mean for a man to become fat other than that he will go about loaded down by a heavier pack? Tell me, if you had a servant, would you rather he was fat, or lively, and fit for any task?

The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second floor, generally used as his sitting-room.

There, a merchant arrived by horse, accompanied by his servant.

But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant.

And he commanded the first, saying: If thou meet my brother Esau, and he ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither goest thou? or whose are these before thee? thou shalt answer: Thy servant Jacob's: he hath sent them as a present to my lord Esau; and he cometh after us.

In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.

And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house shall be my heir.

May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.

An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock.

He that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant.

And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant.

And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground. And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way.

And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord, Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh, that I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: but that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?

The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.

Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.

And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

And he said: I am the servant of Abraham. And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.

Which when Abraham's servant heard, falling down to the ground, he adored the Lord.

And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, servant, and his company, wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, servant, and his company, wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel, and said to the servant: Who is that man who cometh towards us along the field? And he said to her: That man is my master. But she quickly took her cloak, and covered herself.

And the servant told Isaac all that he had done, who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

And he went up from that place to Bersabee, where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

He yielded to his pleasure: and after the week was past, he married Rachel, to whom her father gave Bala, for her servant.

For a proof therefore of her fidelity, she kept the garment, and shewed it to her husband when he returned home: And said: The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought, came to me to abuse me. And when he heard me cry, he left the garment which I held, and fled out.

There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams, and we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

How can you hurt the servant that Allah has forgiven?

And they answered: Thy servant our father is in health; he is yet living. And bowing themselves, they made obeisance to him.

And he said to them: Let it be according to your sentence: with whomsoever it shall be found, let him be my servant, and you shall be blameless.

Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharaoh thou art.

Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharaoh thou art.

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