(1) What made Dreyer's childhood emotionally arid by most accounts was lack of familial affection, partly motivated by his real mother, Josefina Nilsson, a Swedish maidservant, having failed to leave the Dreyers any money for child support.
(2) Compare that to how Indian maidservants – the aayahs and the bhaiyas – live.
(3) She remembers being, at the age of around 12, evacuated to the Cotswolds, where the 16-year-old maidservant at the vicarage got pregnant and drowned herself in the village pond (something similar happens in A Dark-Adapted Eye ).
(4) The living people revealed the painted people behind them like actors in the same performance, and flashing up before me was a little princess, her young maidservants and the artist himself, all gathered in a pool of sunlight below a heavy volume of shadow that instantly sets the tenor of the scene.
Manservant
Definition:
(n.) A male servant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul Bettany plays unfortunately named manservant Jock Strapp, the Jeeves to Mortdecai's Wooster.
(2) The Duke of Brunswick nursed a grudge for nearly 17 years before ordering his manservant to buy a back copy of the offending newspaper and was allowed to sue over that later publication; the multiple publication rule has been the bane of web publishers for more than a decade.
(3) History’s first overtly gay Disney character, it turns out, is LeFou, unctuous manservant to preening, hyper-macho villain Gaston – an underling who, in Condon’s words, “on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston”.
(4) Always keenly aware that his manservant was more cerebrally endowed than himself, Bertie also fretted that his quotient of the grey stuff would not be sufficient to dabble in publishing (until he figured out that a cheque book could be used to hire Substantia grisea from elsewhere).
(5) After he died, Glenconner’s family were surprised to discover that he had left his shares in Beau Estates to his manservant, Winston Kent Adonai, and fought the will.
(6) I've come up with a splendid idea about a series of stories about a gentleman and his manservant.
(7) A pioneer of the parenting technique of "negative reinforcement", Malory was absent for most of the key events of Archer's childhood, leaving his upbringing to his decrepit manservant Woodhouse, whose loyalty Archer repays with abuse (sample quote: "I'll rub sand into your dead little eyes… I'll also need you to go buy sand").