Some pains are occasionally taken to provide a regular customer, whose patronage it is desirable to retain, with a good servant, but generally all is fish that comes to their net.
It is an old saying that we value in others the virtues which are convenient to ourselves, and this is curiously illustrated in the popular ideal of a good servant.
Vatel, you are a good servant, and I double your salary.
A servant who has nothing but ears is not half a good servant.
Beshrew the wench, she wots she is a good servant, and takes advantage.
Hold your whisht," said his wife sharply; "it is not your business to check the girl; she is a good servant to you.
But my good friend is above these little instances of good-will, in bestowing only trifles on his servants; a good servant to him is sure of having it in his choice very soon of being no servant at all.
Grizzel proved to be a good servant, and became a great favourite in the house, except with Molly.
By the beard of the king, thou art a good servant; the kingdom of the Francs, however, is not falling quite so rapidly that we cannot wait for a fortunate hour for your departure.
If he be a good servant, he will stick by his master in his distress.
Hajji is still a khoobjuan--a fine youth; he is a good servant.
Hold your whisht," said his wife sharply, "it is not your business to check the girl, she is a good servant to you.
Beshrew the wench, she kens she is a good servant, and takes advantage.
This manumission, and placing them in a way of livelihood, I look upon as only what is due to a good servant, which encouragement will make his successor be as diligent, as humble, and as ready as he was.
And on the other hand, a servile manner towards a good servant one is afraid of losing, encourages that servant to take liberties and become unduly familiar.
It is as difficult to be a good mistress as it is to be a good servant.
For my part I think never servant and mistress parted upon such foolish terms in the world as they do, only for an opinion in my wife that she is ill-natured, in all other things being a good servant.
Yet not without some trouble, to see that some that had been much bound to them, do now neglect them; and others again most civil that have received least from them: and I do believe that he hath been a good servant to the King.
My Lord Chancellor is threatened by people to be questioned, the next sitting of the Parliament, by some spirits that do not love to see him so great: but certainly he is a good servant to the King.
It is a hard thing that a tradesman should have the blessing of a good servant, and make it a curse to him, by his appearing less capable than his man.
Pashion iz like fire, a good servant, but a bad master.
Charity is like a mule, a good servant but a bad master.
A man should learn tew be a good servant to himself before he iz fit to boss others.
Now I maintain that, with the present average material, ever so good a mistress, with the best intelligence and intentions, cannot "make a good servant.
The truth is--brain is wanted to make a good servant; and at present there is only muscle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good servant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
