Some articles on servants, servant:
... House the attics had one main use, to provide a place to sleep for the servants ... the butler would bring a ladder to the attic entrance so that the servants could go up to their room to sleep ... it until the following morning when again he would bring the ladder and allow the servants to get down ...
... Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor - Servants is an international network of Christian communities living and working in the slums of Asia and the West, participating with the poor to bring hope ... Servants is an organic movement, body, family and community, rather than a traditional mission organization, charity, or NGO ... Servants was established by Viv Grigg, a missionary working in Manila ...
... The house's 40 rooms include servants' quarters, which can be distinguished by their lower, 9-foot (2.7 m) ceilings, compared with 11-foot (3.4 m) ceilings elsewhere, as well as small rooms for ... The basement and upper floors are connected by elevator, grand staircase, and servants' staircase ... The 45 servants included 10 who worked inside the house and 35 who tended the 10-acre (40,000 m2) grounds ...
... Ingunn lay dying Grim, bailiff at Frettastein and later a servant at Berg Dalla, sister of Grim and servant at Frettastein and later at Berg Jon, blacksmith in the town of Hamar Brother Vegard, priest of Hamar who ... She becomes a servant at Hestviken and is the mother of Olav Audunsson's son Björn ... Arnketil, or Anki, Olav's servant at Hestviken Stein, Olav's neighbor at Hestviken Leif, steward at Hestviken after Björn Claus Wiephart, Olav Audunsson's German trading partner ...
... Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic religious institute of women, founded by the Venerable Pierre-Julien Eymard in 1858, assisted by ... The Congregation of the Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament devote themselves with all their souls and all their strength to propagate this same worship of adoration and love in the ...
Famous quotes containing the word servants:
“The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutions for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people’s consciousness, the people’s conscience, freedom and so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen—this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)