8 sentences with 'servant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word servant and other words derived from it.
• « Carlos, the son of a civil servant, had become engaged to the daughter of a banker and was pursuing a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Madrid. »
• « Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527): Machiavelli was a "courtier", a professional politician, ambassador and civil servant who spent his life in the court of a ruler - in his case, as part of the city government of his native Florence. »
• « The Sistine Chapel paintings took him four years to complete, during which time he argued constantly with the Pope, Julius II, who treated him as a servant craftsman rather than the true artistic genius Michelangelo was known to be. Michelangelo was already the most famous artist in Europe thanks to his sculptures. »
• « A domestic servant in a middle-class household could expect to rise before dawn to light the fireplace and the house fire, cook and clean throughout the day, run errands if necessary, and finally collapse after up to seventeen hours of almost uninterrupted work. »
• « A badge of honour for the middle classes was that the woman of the house did not have to work for wages, nor did she have to do hard work in the house if at all possible. Thus, it was believed that a servant was essential. »
• « In turn, all but the most marginal bourgeois families employed at least one full-time servant (recruited from the working class and always at a pittance) to maintain these standards of hygiene. »
• « In 1805 the Ottoman governor of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, seized power and ruled Egypt as an independent state despite being (on paper) a civil servant working for the Ottoman government. »
• « But perhaps the greatest servant of the devil was Adolf Hitler. It is known that he sponsored "The Final Solution", which meant the death of six million Jews. But little is said about the experiments on living human beings carried out by his lieutenants, and about the 500,000 gypsies who were massacred on his orders. »