"Manservant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... c.i.f., cost, insurance, freight costumbre, custom, habit cotizacion, quotation cotizar, to quote (prices) credito, credit creer, to believe, to think cregueelas, osnaburgs crema, cream crespolinas, crimps criada, maidservant criado, manservant croquis, sketch cruzados, twills cuadritos, checks cuadro, picture, table (figures) cualquiera, any (affirm.) cualquiera, whoever, whichever cuando, when cuandoquiera (que), whenever cuantioso, abundant, ample cuarto, apartment, room, quarter cuarto, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... Diana had entered the car, he waved aside the manservant and himself tucked the big fur rug carefully round her. There was something rather pathetic, almost maternal, in the old man's care of her, and Diana's ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... with the particulars of every day, upon Wednesday, in the afternoon, the father died. Upon his death the prisoner, finding herself discovered, endeavoured to persuade the manservant to go off with her; but he was too honest to be tempted by a reward to assist her in going off, though she told him it would be L500 in his way. That night she refused to go to bed. Not out of grief for her father's death, for you will be told by the maid who sat up with ...
— Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead
... and the morning was far advanced when a knock at the door that, at first, seemed to come across an immeasurable distance, brought him back to himself. It was Reginald's manservant announcing that ...
— The House of the Vampire • George Sylvester Viereck
... slavery? A peerage in her own right? A pension of two thousand a year for life? A seventy-four for her brother in the navy? A deanery for her brother in the church? Not so. The price at which she was valued was her board, her lodging, the attendance of a manservant, and two hundred pounds ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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