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servant

A servant is someone who works for a person or for a family, doing things like cooking and washing. Often the servant lives in the house where they work. A servant works for the same family all day. This rich family has three servants working for them in their big house.

servant

a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) (= handmaiden) in a subordinate position theology should be the handmaiden of ethics the state cannot be a servant of the church

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Simple sentences

Please ring for the servant.
He is, so to speak, her servant.
Where might is master, justice is servant.
A prudent bird chooses its tree. A wise servant chooses his master.
The mind should be a good servant, but the heart should be the master.
The servant led me to a very beautiful room, which served simultaneously as a living room and office in the engineer's house.
Might before right is the complaint of many a poor servant.
And the servant came and chopped the Tree into little pieces.
I am your servant.
I'm your servant.
Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
He is rich enough to keep a servant.
I'm not your servant.
Tom was a public servant.
I want to hire a servant.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Movie subtitles

Captured in battle at the age of 1 1, he was castrated and assigned as a servant to the man who would seize the Imperial throne as Yongle.
Rosa, the servant of the Marquise, did not miss any word from the letter.
The president's trusty servant, Franz.
Your humble servant Karl Victor von Sendlingen.
Siegfried introduced himself to me as Gunther's vassal and servant.
He did servant's work for my husband!
After the death of Shironine's wife, the intriguer widow Lukeria had become servant-mistress of the farmer.
But what if a servant dares to love someone of a higher class?
Your obedient servant, the unhappy father Fjodor Karamasoff P.S. I am certain that your beauty will be victorious.
Now tell that weak fool to get that scroll, wherever it is, and hand it to his Nubian servant.
He's an old servant.
My servant will see to him.
Laing, your uncle's servant.
My servant is coming.
Here's the servant who speaks French.
A servant for you.
Where's my servant Ahmed?
Naouel was the mistress-servant every man secretly dreams of.
Your servant?
Of course. Well, she's more than my servant.
I, Abd el-Kader, son of Muhyi el-Din, combatant for Islam, the prince of the faithful and servant of Muslims, have waited for the time chosen by God.
After disposing of you cyborg defects, I shall help guide humanity as a proud servant of those gods.
You're just going to be one more servant to a drug lord. Just a fucking servant.
In the morning the servant serves Lebel hot chocolate that he leaves untouched.
Well, sir, tell my servant not to get the horses until tomorrow.
This is his servant.
I want to know his name. A servant came with a strange coach and horses outside of town This morning.
This is the dagger of my servant Radu.
Please lead, by my servant, second lieutenant Armand de Foix blindfolded and without knowing where he is summoned.
Mother, I've finally found a servant girl.
There's a servant in the house.
A servant is a servant.
After all, I'm only doing what any servant could do.
He thinks his father was a civil servant.
My father was a civil servant.
We could have a servant, Dave.
Whitey's different than a servant.
YOUR SERVANT, MISS LIVVIE.
This man's my servant.
Take me as your servant.

News and current affairs

The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high-ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.
It is no surprise, then, that for the last 400 years Don Quixote and Panza have bred many relatives and successors, including countless buffoonish boss-and-servant couples.
This high-handed attempt to highjack the ECB and make it a servant of the European Parliament would mean chronically low European interest rates and a depreciated euro.
The status of permanent civil servant, marked by a special reciprocal obligation of loyalty, was created by the Prussian state in order to fill strategically important positions with people who could be fully trusted.
The US must accept this principle, and recognize that Europe is a partner, not merely a servant, whether willing or unwilling, of American orders.
No civil servant, military officer, or professor is able to buy even a modest apartment, unless they have an additional - often illegal - source of income.
Whatever may happen, I as the people's loyal servant am with them all the way.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that Europe should be a partner, not a servant or a rival, of the US.
It was created in 1945 to be the servant of its member states, and Article 2.7 of its charter protects the sovereign jurisdiction of its members.
The president names the head of the armed forces, a power that could potentially turn the military into a servant of the government.
He is an outstanding hard-working civil servant and a good reformer.
But, just when America's Sino-centric Asia policy became noticeable, Japan put the US on notice that it cannot indefinitely remain a faithful servant of American policies.
In crisis after crisis during her presidency, she exemplified unwavering firmness in the democratic exercise of power as a servant-leader.
There is much speculation that Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang is about to appoint a generalist civil servant better known for his personal loyalty than for his financial expertise.
And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.
Geithner is a very smart and experienced public servant.
That battle was also the subject of a recent Russian film, The Sovereign's Servant.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
The highest level civil servant or chief justice of the Supreme Court at the end of their careers is nowadays paid barely half the salary of graduates of India's elite educational institutions, who are snapped up by the global economy.

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