This, he said in his slightly old-fashioned way, was his duty as a servant of empire.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart.
"I'm a servant -- God brought me to serve the people, especially the needy children, " he says.
Soon afterward, a servant came to ask Husna if she would join Harouni for tea in the garden.
The equal rights trend has led to rising costs that are making employing a servant an unaffordable luxury for some.
He looks at Albert with the disdainful stare that the pukka sahib directs at a servant who has inconvenienced him.
Though a servant that talks back may not be universally appealing, one that has some clever retorts would amuse anyone.
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Some say John was a servant who made a dish of black-eyed peas and rice that was so good, everyone asked for seconds.
He is not a religious officer but, supremely, a servant of what will become the modern state, for good and ill.
One night when McClellan wasn't in the mood, he came home from a party and sent a servant to say the general was too tired.
On the third day, a servant came, early in the morning, before there were any callers, to say that the sisters wished to speak with her.
The 1889 act, which was repealed when the Bribery Act 2010 came into effect, outlawed the bribery of a member, officer or a servant of a public body.
An Indian woman who claims she was trafficked into the UK and treated like a servant has told a court she was forced to touch one of her employers.
The woman alleges she came to the UK on the promise of work as a nanny and domestic worker, only to be treated like a servant and physically and sexually abused.
Below the surface, the skills are closer to those of a manager than a servant: for an (unnamed) Russian oligarch, Mr Seddon-Holland managed properties on several continents and organised 60 permanent staff.
Her friends came from diverse walks of life, ranging from an Iraqi gardener to the Viceroy of India, from a Times correspondent to a battle-scarred tribal warrior, from a mutjahid to a servant from Aleppo.
And when he took the oath of office as governor of Washington, he did so in the state capitol building not one mile from the home where his grandfather worked as a servant all those years ago.
Elizabeth A. Davis is passionately, winningly earnest as Grusha, a servant who plucks a baby of noble birth from the chaos of war, then goes before a tribunal in the hope of keeping the child as her own.
Professor Anderson thinks the lady could be Titian's mistress possibly his daughter Emilia's mother, who was a servant in his home in the 1550s (his wife Cecilia died in 1530) and that the painting is from the mid- to late-1550s.
And even when it means resisting the policy positions of many in my own political party, I've always strived to be, first and foremost, a public servant and do what is best for the people and never acquiesce to being a political servant.
It may simply be that those who have the wherewithal to cook at home--or who earn sufficient income to support a wife who cooks at home or to hire a servant to do it--tend to be those with the cognitive ability to handle the complicated task of managing a healthy and balanced diet.
Enkhbayar was a public servant and a man who did a great deal for Mongolia.
That person does not know the difference between a Civil Servant and a Local Authority employee.
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Chaudhary Raghvendra Singh was a civil servant with a keen nose for business.
Gretchen Rubin, author of the bestselling book, The Happiness Project, describes technology as a great servant but a terrible master.
My friend Gretchen Rubin, whose blog The Happiness Project is a vital part of my morning routine, describes technology as a great servant but a terrible master.
Mainly Mr Gertz's past: he has been an academic, a businessman, a politician, a civil servant, anything but a policeman or a soldier.
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