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"Body servant" Quotes from Famous Books

... remain as his master's body servant, as before. He had even, before leaving India, picked up a certain amount of English; and had improved considerably his knowledge of the language during the long voyage. Mary, fortunately, had not shared in her mother's ...

— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty

... Neversink, during the present cruise, there was a Virginian slave regularly shipped as a seaman, his owner receiving his wages. Guinea—such was his name among the crew—belonged to the Purser, who was a Southern gentleman; he was employed as his body servant. Never did I feel my condition as a man-of-war's-man so keenly as when seeing this Guinea freely circulating about the decks in citizen's clothes, and through the influence of his master, almost entirely exempted from the disciplinary degradation of the Caucasian crew. Faring sumptuously in the ward-room; ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... the honors of the beautiful home, Jerome, the old butler, who had been "Massa Neil's body servant" before he entered the Academy at eighteen, where body servants had no place, hovering around, solicitous of his master's comfort; Harrison making a hundred and one excuses to come into the room; ...

— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... in useless speculation one sultry August evening when old Ben, my body servant, handed me a telegram. ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... see him sitting here that he isn't a great lord in the worst sense of the word. He would fetch a man a mile to ring a bell a yard off—if it would summon another man three miles to fetch a matchbox three yards off. He must have a footman to carry his walking-stick; a body servant to hold ...

— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

Words linked to "Body servant" : servant, valet de chambre, gentleman's gentleman, man, gentleman, valet, retainer