| He lived well and spent freely, renting flats in Chelsea and Brighton, employing servants, owning race horses and running a Rolls-Royce. |
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| He needed men for his army, smiths for his forges, cooks, hunters, healers, servants, woodcutters, stonemasons and more. |
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| Traditional Thai families are closely knit, often incorporating servants and employees. |
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| His much more youthful servants had to wrestle him to the ground to restrain him. |
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| Also note if you do not know, many civil servants are patriotic and would prefer to be corrected wherever they do wrong. |
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| The consulate also hopes to regularize the position of Filipino servants working in Shanghai as soon as possible. |
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| But Finnie rejected both calls by quoting the legal advice he had been given by Scottish Executive civil servants. |
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| He lived in the great house in Doocastle surrounded by servants, lackeys, and half-sirs who did his bidding without question. |
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| Kerry talks in generalities because he is alone and comes from nowhere and lives among servants and lackeys in hotel rooms. |
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| Yet for real hard yakka the plight of the servants, valets and other assorted members of staff stands alone. |
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| It makes bureaucratic booby traps, laid down by government civil servants at their final destination, cruel indeed. |
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| The Revenue investigators act more like private detectives than civil servants. |
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| She cut down the servants at the tables, and massacred all in the house of Akhat. |
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| In a sign of the gravity of the talks, Dr Reid was accompanied by a full complement of civil servants. |
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| Many people further argue that corruption is rampant among civil servants because of poor remuneration. |
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| This character's role is merely to grin amiably, like the servants in old Hollywood films. |
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| On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. |
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| On Mothering Sunday, the servants were given the day off and encouraged to go spend the day with their mothers. |
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| But such things insert a physical and optical barrier between electors and their representatives, the public and its servants. |
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| The emerging system may look like anarchy to us, and it certainly looked like chaos to all the old civil servants in Germany. |
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| It became one of the largest Cistercian houses, with 140 monks, 240 lay brothers, and at least as many again servants. |
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| You'll need a calculator to add them all up plus civil servants and ancillaries. |
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| The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants. |
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| There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen. |
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| A separate planned shake-up of Executive departments would aim to ensure that civil servants are only answerable to one minister. |
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| The scale and precise role of the retinue of officers and servants who travelled with a prince has not been established. |
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| In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on. |
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| She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues. |
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| He was represented by four works, including several tableaux vivants populated by friends, family, and servants and photographed on his estate. |
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| I was in a smaller room that was next to the stairs leading to the attic where the servants used to live. |
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| Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants. |
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| Civil servants wear neat uniforms to work, as do schoolchildren and teachers. |
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| She looked past him, at the bustling servants and attendants entering and leaving the room. |
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| Paul led them into a sitting room, and asked one of his servants for a tea tray. |
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| Hired security was just like any other kind of staff, just like the maids and the servants and drivers. |
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| He has several servants and attendants who buzz around the hall, including several dogs. |
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| In general, French friends were lodged the on ground floor, Americans on the second, and children and servants of the guests on the third. |
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| These groups were the intelligentsia, civil servants, the labour aristocracy, and successful petty producers. |
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| As president, Jefferson dressed down, but he did fit out the servants in snappy livery of blue and red cloth with silver trimmings. |
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| Most vulnerable of all are live-in servants, isolated in their employers' homes. |
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| Carefully avoiding maids and other assorted servants, Signe successfully made it to the dining room without being seen by anyone. |
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| For the first time in his life, liberated from the small army of attendants and servants, he has opened a door by himself. |
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| She said the poor attendance of civil servants at work was an example of the lack of professionalism. |
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| Because of its trendy college and relatively liberal cadres of lawyers and civil servants, Austin became a magnet for nonconformists. |
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| It is the most pathetic attack on public servants I have ever heard in this House. |
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| The willingness of the mass of civil servants to serve the regime loyally cannot be doubted. |
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| In the 17th century servants and ayahs were brought over by British families returning from India. |
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| Civil servants, ministers and the pensions industry agonised over how to interest the public in this arcane subject. |
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| Jake crept down the hallway, listening for sounds from the servants and hearing only silence. |
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| They were standing next to a ring in which servants were setting up the targets for the archery contest. |
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| On February 15, I was walking alongside elderly women, young professionals, bus drivers, writers, celebrities, taxmen, civil servants. |
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| The vast majority of the advisers are not civil servants, but political appointments hand-picked by ministers. |
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| Long ago, when she was a little girl, one of the servants had cross stitched for her a little sampler that now hung on the wall. |
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| In Edwardian times many lower class woman would work as servants or maids for upper class families. |
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| The senior civil servants are expected to brief their departmental ministers according to the agreed line. |
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| Every room had maids and servants and butlers all cleaning and decorating his home. |
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| When 35,000 public servants go barking mad on game nights, it's a tough assignment for visiting teams. |
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| The air was filled with the noise and clatter of servants and maids from every quarter. |
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| The next morning all the servants were running around like mad preparing for the party that evening. |
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| People who run her down should be ashamed of themselves, and talk of her servants and privileged life is nonsense. |
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| Just as some people, apparently servants in rags and tatters, served dinner. |
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| The two men rushed rapidly down the halls, skirting past servants and other court members. |
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| In his home he had many white servants and henchmen and really lived like a lord. |
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| The same is true for all of the other British civil servants who are now running Montserrat. |
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| There is no legal prohibition denying the Community the right to accept liability for private acts of its servants. |
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| The servants are talking, ma'am, and they're all saying that the murderer is on the loose. |
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| Visitors can hire an audio tape recalling tales of the servants who have served at Harewood. |
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| She nearly collided with one of the household's army of servants, but the liveried manservant didn't as much as flinch. |
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| As a social base it had the older generation of the modern middle class, made up of professional workers, technocrats and civil servants. |
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| They have said they want to reduce the pensions of privileged federal civil servants and use the money for social programmes. |
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| Gifts arrived by the wagonloads, the servants rushed to prepare the large dinner for the party, I was beside myself trying to keep order. |
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| Civil servants announced their campaign against an imposed pay deal with unofficial walkouts and will be balloting for strikes next month. |
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| Residents entered the building from the street, with servants using the rear walkways and service lift. |
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| By the 15th cent., the palace was a rabbit warren of rooms and corridors, swarming with servants and lawyers, and liable to flooding. |
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| The acute dearth of primary sources or written documents left by the servants themselves in the colonial period acts as a stumbling block. |
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| During one such meeting, the residents are warned that their house servants may be spies and to watch out. |
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| Government servants normally receive only brickbats and on rare occasions their services are acknowledged with a bouquet. |
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| A union is calling for a national day of action to protest at plans to increase the retirement age for civil servants. |
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| The failure of civil servants was that they regarded him with awestruck reverence. |
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| Instead of people with unkempt hair and raggedy clothes, there were well-dressed servants and slaves, and an occasional noble riding by. |
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| He wept and lay face down on the ground until the emperor sent his servants over to raise him up and bring him. |
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| The law on public administration punishes civil servants who fail to show their loyalty to the government through dismissal. |
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| He said the admission that some civil servants went for ten years without being given permanent jobs, was not an exaggeration. |
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| The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind. |
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| Here's an interesting one about sneaky civil servants using their access to databases to rat to the press on Lotto winners. |
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| Downstairs, the servants are closer to the underbelly of society, the whispers and the rumours. |
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| Thousands more African Americans served the British military as SCOUTS, labourers and servants. |
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| As was the case with black African slaves, by the end of the eighteenth century wealthy households in Britain employed Indian servants and ayahs. |
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| He was a prominent figure in Stratford-upon-Avon, with a household of about 40 servants and retainers. |
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| I believe in public servants being rewarded for the jobs they do because, let's face it, it's work no one else wants. |
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| The servants and live-in farm workers were not allowed to use the stairs but had to climb a ladder to get to their sleeping quarters. |
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| You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury. |
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| The count was giving orders to some servants and when he heard her he turned around. |
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| In November 1560, he was again sick, and made his will, providing for his wife, children, kinswomen, and servants in conventional style. |
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| And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants. |
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| Places that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day. |
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| Is it the depredations of unfettered capitalism that make people the servants of the market rather than the other way around? |
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| He came by last night and attacked my servants, mortally wounding one and incapacitating the other and threatened me with my life if I didn't hand the gems over. |
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| Clarke, whose father was a Whitehall mandarin, is known to believe that ministers, not civil servants, should be the mouthpiece for government policy. |
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| The children nap and watch television while the parents sit listlessly by the filthy pool and demand more ice for their drinks from harried servants. |
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| In contrast, the clerisy has little needed for the basically educated, but only an approving claque and faithful servants. |
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| Now running a servants employment office, Rose becomes the housekeeper to the new aristocratic family living at 165 Eaton Place. |
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| I poked my head around the corner, wearily eying the bustling servants. |
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| By 1753 you could find Indians employed as servants and ayahs, nurses for children, in the households of a significant number of the British elite. |
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| Employing a live-in servant was particularly important to distinguish the white-collar group, including civil servants, from that of the working class in Belgium. |
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| Yet the appointment of it's Chief Officer is a labyrinthine affair conducted by various committees, panels, civil servants and most worryingly, politicians. |
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| Among women, common occupations included servants and waitresses, and seamstresses or laundresses, with smaller groups of laborers and factory workers. |
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| The stairs leading from the servants level to ground were well-travelled routes, with untold scores of menials scurrying to and fro between their masters and duties. |
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| Concentrated primarily as laborers, teamsters, deliverymen, waiters, servants, maids and laundresses, they held many of the lowest paid and least skilled jobs in the city. |
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| The police arrested Alayban late that evening and found four Filipino servants in the house, who were removed from the condo. |
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| It was the morning of his wedding and one could already hear the sound of the Marquise au Fontaine calling out instructions to the lackeys and servants. |
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| Many black Africans and West Indians found employment on British vessels as personal servants or more often in the formal role of cooks or stewards. |
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| This is a man who treats women like servants and men like lackeys. |
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| Tamino is discovered by servants to the Queen who show him a picture of the princess, whereupon in true opera style he falls instantly in love with her. |
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| I will make life so hard for these wretched lummoxes who pass for my servants that the atrocities of Ivan the Terrible will seem like a fairy-picnic! |
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| There are state pensions for retired civil servants, but no unemployment benefits or social security provisions, except on a private basis via insurance. |
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| Figures resembling servants often appear along with the flight crews. |
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| Howard Junior was tended by an army of servants and ferried to and from school in a limousine. |
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| In the mean time my servants had arrived, the lost mattress was restored to the baggage, and West and I, in light marching order, started for Brussels. |
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| The courtiers, attendants, guards and servants sighed in audible relief. |
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| Mira and Emmanuel Riva have been converted, because they were civil servants, into Mossad agents. |
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| She kept servants and, evidently, three slaves, and entertained academics and philosophers in an elite salon. |
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| I carried her to the divan, and went to look for him, but he was not in the house, and the servants were gone to bed. |
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| Among the perks are a salary, personal servants called tsukebito, participation in the dohyo-iri wearing a kesho-mawashi and a special white training mawashi. |
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| Several servants and guards dressed in Iven liveries quickly rushed out to the carriages and directed them to the house that her parents had employed. |
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| Wealthier people such as civil servants and merchants live in dwellings constructed of cement blocks, laid with a cement floor, and roofed with metal sheets. |
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| In July 2009, he and aline were arrested in Switzerland on charges of beating up their servants in a Geneva hotel. |
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| During construction, many men, indentured servants in the beginning, were blown apart during the blasting and digging. |
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| He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania. |
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| Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants. |
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| Other items discovered include a set of pewter tableware used by servants. |
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| Governments for the most part, even progressing democracies, are currently reacting as oppressors rather than public servants answering the needs of the people. |
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| Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility. |
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| Africans, who crossed the ocean as slaves, and immigrants from Europe, who came initially as indentured servants, added additional strands to the repeopling of the country. |
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| There were a few servants and attendants sitting at tables, talking. |
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| Around quarter to ten, fifteen minutes before the ball began and I was to make my grand entrance, the servants finally allowed me a glance in the mirror. |
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| He dressed in silk kimonos, had a large retinue of servants and carried the signature daisho, or twin swords, of the Japanese ruling samurai class. |
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| In 1828 Curr tried to charge one of his superintendents with being an accessory to murder after one of his convict servants had killed an Aboriginal woman. |
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| Many Europeans who arrived in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries came under contract as indentured servants. |
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| She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work. |
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| The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. |
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| As she thus spoke, the entrance of the servants with dinner cut off all conversation but that of a general nature. |
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| When his servants came the next morning to lift him up so that he could eat, he died in their arms. |
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| Wealthy Tudor homes needed many rooms, where a large number of guests and servants could be accommodated, fed and entertained. |
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| However, European demand for tobacco fueled the arrival of more settlers and servants. |
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| On the night of 20 June 1791 the royal family fled the Tuileries Palace dressed as servants, while their servants dressed as nobles. |
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| Unlike some other democracies, senior civil servants remain in post upon a change of Government. |
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| As the political heads of government departments Cabinet Ministers ensure that policies are carried out by permanent civil servants. |
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| Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law! |
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| The civil servants in the Home Office were minded to refuse both applications. |
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| Darwin was passionately opposed to slavery, while seeing no problem with the working conditions of English factory workers or servants. |
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| He was fascinated by electricity, and he and his brother experimented by giving electric shocks to each other and to the family's servants. |
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| They are the first Africans recorded to have arrived in London at the time, and were considered luxury servants. |
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| For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a year more, lest they be unprovided for. |
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| It noted that missionaries could not take servants with them, and also that the board did not want to appear to condone slavery. |
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| Wilfrid was criticised for dressing his household and servants in clothing fit for royalty. |
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| A few days later, several of Fisher's servants were taken ill after eating some porridge served to the household and two died. |
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| Later, the main duty of universities in most Protestant countries was the training of future civil servants. |
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| Again, it was not in the interest of the state to charge tuition fees, as this would have decreased the quality of civil servants. |
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| He was held in luxury and permitted servants, but on 2 February 1101 he hosted a banquet for his captors. |
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| The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish to the West Indies. |
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| In 1678 the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was ascribed to her servants, and Titus Oates accused her of an intention to poison the king. |
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| He attacks the dragon with the help of his thegns or servants, but they do not succeed. |
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| The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. |
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| After being pressured by his wife, he and four of his servants kill the King in his own house. |
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| Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. |
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| They are not civil servants, although they enjoy similar terms and conditions of service to members of the UK Civil Service. |
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| The staff comprise a mix of grades from senior civil servants to administrative support grades. |
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| Many Irish people were also transported to the island of Montserrat, to work as indentured servants or exiled prisoners. |
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| As coastal land grew more expensive freed indentured servants pushed further west. |
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| But by the turn of the 18th century, African slaves were replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor, especially in southern regions. |
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| The first kidnapped Africans in English North America were classed as indentured servants and freed after seven years. |
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| For example, Disraeli made political appointments to positions previously given to career civil servants. |
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| In 1904, the Herero and the Nama revolted against the colonists in Southwest Africa, killing farm families, their laborers and servants. |
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| Slavery was a part of Ottoman society, with most slaves employed as domestic servants. |
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| According to 2012 reports, there are 16,000 civil servants working in core Scottish Government directorates and agencies. |
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| A 2012 report counted 1,300 uniformed personnel and 50 British Ministry of Defence civil servants present in the Falklands. |
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| According to a report from 2014, there are over 5,000 civil servants working across Wales. |
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| The New Crown Building is today home to many of the Welsh Government's civil servants. |
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| At HM Treasury the Chancellor is supported by a political team of four junior ministers and by permanent civil servants. |
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| I was having dinner with the village elders at the mukhiya's place when one of the servants announced that I had a visitor. |
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| The management remained the same, only now they became civil servants working for the government. |
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| They were joined by Janey's sister Bessie Burton and a number of household servants. |
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| Government buildings are those used by civil servants, the Crown, or the armed forces. |
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| Their presence in Dublin, along with large numbers of servants, provided a regular boost to the city economy. |
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| A typical legion of this period had 5,120 legionaries as well as a large number of camp followers, servants and slaves. |
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| After Bacon's Rebellion, African slaves rapidly replaced indentured servants as Virginia's main labor force. |
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| The majority of early British settlers were indentured servants, who gained freedom after enough work to pay off their passage. |
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| Women were often vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, especially teenage girls who were indentured servants and lacking male protectors. |
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| Parish records give a snapshot of heads of family's occupations in 1835 and 1839 including several bakers, servants, shoemakers and wrights. |
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| Personnel at the base numbered 15 officers, 11 ratings, 28 civil servants and 50 civilian staff. |
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| Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law. |
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| Blackamoor servants were seen as a fashionable novelty and popular in the homes of the wealthy. |
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| In the following century many South Asians arrived in Europe by sea as sailors, slaves and servants. |
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| Persistent and lasting recruitment policies boosted the number of redundant public servants. |
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| Below that stood skilled laborers, maids, servants, sailors, and other persons employed in the service industry. |
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| Millions of individuals were forcibly transported to the Americas as slaves, prisoners or indentured servants. |
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| Among my uncle Roger's farm servants, Esau Fletcher and Peter Patch came to the parsonage house. |
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| The interference... that LSC staff have had to endure from the department's civil servants would have tried the patience of Job. |
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| They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them. |
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| Most of the indentured servants were teenagers from England with poor economic prospects at home. |
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| Slave owners would buy Mina and Angolan women and girls to work as cooks, household servants and street vendors Quitamdeiras. |
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| Some were sentenced to transportation to the Carolinas as indentured servants. |
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| By the 18th century African slaves began to be brought into London and Edinburgh as personal servants. |
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| These indentured servants were young people who intended to become permanent residents. |
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| In some cases, convicted criminals were transported to the colonies as indentured servants, rather than being imprisoned. |
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| By 1750 Georgia authorized slavery in the state because they had been unable to secure enough indentured servants as laborers. |
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| People enslaved in the North typically worked as house servants, artisans, laborers and craftsmen, with the greater number in cities. |
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| The transition from indentured servants to slaves is cited to show that slaves offered greater profits to their owners. |
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| The relative price of slaves and indentured servants in the antebellum period did decrease. |
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| Indentured servants became more costly with the increase in the demand of skilled labor in England. |
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| Although the prices of slaves relative to indentured servants declined, both got more expensive. |
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| Most families owned slaves as household servants and laborers, and even poor families might have owned a few slaves. |
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| He never married, but is believed to have had illegitimate children by several of his female servants. |
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| One of Edward's favourite servants, Walter Langton, rushed to her and wrote a charter to confirm the sale of the Isle of Wight to the king. |
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| In 1837, the new King of Hanover, Ernst August I, dissolved parliament and demanded oaths of allegiance from all civil servants. |
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| India and China were the largest source of indentured servants during the colonial era. |
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| Between 1830 and 1930, around 30 million indentured servants migrated from India, and 24 million returned to India. |
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| China sent more indentured servants to European colonies, and around the same proportion returned to China. |
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| Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown. |
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| After 1640, planters started to ignore the expiration of indentured contracts and kept their servants as slaves for life. |
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| In the case of freed slaves of the United States, many became sharecroppers and indentured servants. |
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| They not only fought in the battlefield but served as interpreters, informants, servants, teachers, physicians, and scribes. |
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| The Spanish took thousands of women from the local natives to use as servants and concubines. |
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| One method to solve the shortage was through the usage of indentured servants. |
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| By the 1640s, legal documents started to define the changing nature of indentured servants and their status as servants. |
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| Such documented cases marked the transformation of Negroes from indentured servants into slaves. |
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| They were civil servants appointed by the Emperor to handle daily governance. |
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| He traveled accompanied by his family, 14 servants, three black slaves and his collection of books. |
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| A number were also indigenous Khoisan people, who were valued as interpreters, domestic servants, and labourers. |
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| For special reasons, the use of convicts as public servants warrants separate attention. |
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| While the Westminster system has not changed over the past 30 years, there has been major cultural change amongst Australian public servants. |
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| The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery. |
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| The house was big enough to accommodate his family as well as Antoine's family and some servants. |
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| John Walden, who was charged with monitoring this exercise in quangoism, found that many civil servants disliked this level of consultation. |
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| But while she was with the Morels she queened it. She sat and let Annie or Paul wait on her as if they were her servants. |
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| Most of the English colonists arrived as indentured servants, under contracts to work as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage. |
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| The Company Law Reforms Committee was set up in 1979 with leading civil servants, chartered accountants and lawyers. |
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| About 50 Indian civilians, some officers' servants who tried to defend or conceal their employers, were also killed by the sepoys. |
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| In 1996, civil servants, nurses, and junior doctors went on strike over salary issues. |
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| The Osmotherly Rules set out guidance on how civil servants should respond to Parliamentary Select Committees. |
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| Many offenders thus stayed in the colony as free persons, and might obtain employment as jailers or other servants of the penal colony. |
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| They obtained a contract from the sheriffs, and after the voyage to the colonies they sold the convicts as indentured servants. |
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| He continued to draw and paint in watercolours, and to travel widely across Europe with servants and friends. |
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| He set off for the city with his family and servants but only got as far as Dorchester before expiring at the coaching inn there. |
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| Jo Baker's 2013 novel Longbourn imagines the lives of the servants of Pride and Prejudice. |
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| Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other. |
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| His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him. |
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| He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. |
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| And few would distinguish between state and federal public servants, tarring them with the same brush of disdain. |
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| Air traffic controllers are demanding a wage hike as the government discusses an increase in the salaries of public servants. |
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| Our elected representatives and our judicatory are not representatives or servants of some restricted religious body. |
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| Some ship captains banned servants and redemptioners altogether and the convict trade between Ireland and America ended. |
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| That was the argument being pushed by the Tories and the civil servants when the Conservatives were rejigging local government in Wales. |
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| The Canadian government pursues malfeasant civil servants and subjects them to prosecution. |
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| The very bony fish fed indentured servants, and sustained George Washington's desperate Delaware army. |
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| They were asked to rate the extent of briberies paid by companies to politicians and civil servants in emerging market countries. |
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| He said that delaying in tenure track system results exploitation of efficient and talented servants of the university. |
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| While slavery also existed, it was limited largely to household servants. |
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| With no television for entertainment and without servants for the afternoon, the gentry would play parlour games such as charades and blind man's buff. |
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| After the systematic atrocities by the German army in the first few weeks of the war, German civil servants took control and were generally correct, albeit strict and severe. |
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| In contrast Levellers argued that all men who are not servants, alms recipients or beggars, should be considered as property owners and be given voting rights. |
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| The operation of the Court is in the hands of officials and other servants who are responsible to the Registrar under the authority of the President. |
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| Quite naturally, if there are more ministers swarming the cabinet rooms and conference halls, then there will be a spate of civil servants beehiving the secretariat. |
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| Learning of the fall of Delhi by telegraph, many Company administrators hastened to remove themselves, their families and servants to places of safety. |
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| Originally entered from the side via a screens passage, this room was where Sir Thomas Holte would have conducted his business and also where his servants took their meals. |
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| In the early years the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid, and the working classes often lived closely together. |
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| He had a small fleet of waiters and servants at his beck and call. |
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| Tax records show Charles Blackstone to have been the second most prosperous man in the parish in 1722, and death registers show that the family had several servants. |
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| Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands. |
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| By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. |
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| These newly freed servants were rarely able to support themselves comfortably, and the tobacco industry was increasingly dominated by large planters. |
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| With one of his young interpreters, Soto read a prepared speech to Atahualpa telling him that they had come as servants of God to teach them the truth about God's word. |
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| He had many women as his mistresses, the daughters of chieftains, but two legitimate wives who were Caciques in their own right, and only some of his servants knew of it. |
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| Commoners included farmers, servants, labourers, and slaves. |
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| These Africans wrought a demographic revolution, replacing or joining with either the indigenous Caribs or the European settlers who were there as indentured servants. |
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| The second body was made up of some 200 permanent servants or continos who performed a wide range of confidential functions on behalf of the rulers. |
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| Funerary practices included providing the deceased with everything they might need in the afterlife, including animals, servants, entertainers, hunters, homes, and officials. |
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| He killed most of the Jianwen Emperor's palace servants, tortured many of his nephew's loyalists to death, killed or by other means badly treated their relatives. |
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| Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. |
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| An array of mementos commemorating her extended family, friends and servants were laid in the coffin with her, at her request, by her doctor and dressers. |
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| The indentured servants were not slaves, but were required to work for four to seven years in Virginia to pay the cost of their passage and maintenance. |
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| Most laborers came from Britain as indentured servants, having signed contracts of indenture to pay with work for their passage, their upkeep and training, usually on a farm. |
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| Women were expected to work as domestic servants and farm labourers. |
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| Mass emigration from Europe, including large numbers of indentured servants, and importation of African slaves largely replaced the indigenous peoples. |
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| It has been suggested servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice per week, however there is no evidence for this. |
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| Why could Alberta Registries not have delivered one-window shopping, better hours and better locations, and nonbureaucratic service directly, using public servants? |
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| Over twenty years later, after Gaunt's son Henry IV had deposed Richard, one of Richard's servants was imprisoned by Henry for continuing to wear Richard's livery badge. |
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| If wealthy enough, he might be carried over the hard terrain by servants. |
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| The resident British black population, primarily male, was no longer growing from the trickle of slaves and servants from the West Indies and America. |
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| Due to this ruling, most were forced into working as servants. |
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| Most were employed as servants and entertainers to the wealthy. |
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| The cavalry was held in reserve, and a small group of clergymen and servants situated at the base of Telham Hill was not expected to take part in the fighting. |
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| Two servants dressed in the same shroud and hat as the Ankou pile the dead into the cart, and to hear it creaking at night means you have little time left to live. |
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| This has been the case since the Lyon King of Arms Act of 1867, when the whole of the Lyon Court and Her Majesty's Officers of Arms were formally made into civil servants. |
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| Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to the colony from Scotland, including prisoners taken in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. |
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| Much of the population consisted of young, single, white indentured servants and, as such, the colonies lacked social cohesiveness, to a large degree. |
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| After 1700, most immigrants to Colonial America arrived as indentured servants, young unmarried men and women seeking a new life in a much richer environment. |
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| The next day she issued a proclamation that there would be no alteration in the current state of religion and that her servants should not be molested or troubled. |
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| When she attended Mass being celebrated in the royal chapel at Holyrood Palace five days later, this prompted a protest in which one of her servants was jostled. |
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