"Manservant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his pulses pounded, his knees all but knocked together under him, as he followed the manservant across the hall, ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... and other expedients and is yet[449] to write severall bookes for all the Generall[450] Incorporations and plantations both of the great charter, and of all the lawes) and likewise in respecte of the dilligence of the Clerke and sergeant, officers thereto belonging. That every man and manservant of above 16 yeares of age shall pay into the handes and Custody of the Burgesses of every Incorporation and plantation one pound of the best Tobacco, to be distributed to the Speaker and likewise to the Clerke and sargeant of the Assembly, according to their degrees and rankes, the whole ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various
... reached the village of Hofen by mid-day without accidents. Here for a time the travelling ceased, for a hundred paces beyond the village the carriage fell into a puddle, and they were all terribly soiled; the maid's right shoulder was dislocated, and the manservant's hand injured. The axle of one of the wheels was broken, and a horse completely lamed in the left forefoot. They had to put up a second time for the night, leave horses, carriage, man, and maid in Hofen, and hire a rack waggon, in which ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... too late. Only a woman and a manservant were found there. The assassin had fled by the back of the house, where a horse was standing in waiting. It is said that the house belongs to the ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... door was thrown open and a manservant rushed in—pale, confused, terror-stricken. He was a giant footman in the gorgeous ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman |
