serving-boy

Then, if anything has to be done in town, I set off to transact the business and make that my walk; 243 or, if there is no business to do in town, my serving-boy leads my horse to the farm;

Oeconomicus 2007

Pandora, on the other hand, didn't understand why the serving-boy didn't just bring us our hot chocolate and pastry in bed.

morning commentary suricattus 2005

Frowns appeared on some customers 'faces as they noted that it was the serving-boy who had spoken and that he was a kalaa from across the sea an Indian, with teeth as white as his eyes and skin the color of polished hardwood.

Excerpt: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh 2001

Omitting the two he'd worked with before (his slave Pity, and his impudent serving-boy Smerdyakov, both of whom were only of use as cannon fodder) they had all been disappointments to him.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

All of this was clouded in a blue smoke which rose from the holes of the censer continuously swung to and fro by the arm of a roguish serving-boy.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

Lentulus clapped his hands, and a serving-boy came in for orders.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Four other persons, slaves and peasants, were sitting on two low benches beside a small, circular table, and were busy pouring down the liquor which a young serving-boy brought them in tumbler-shaped cups, or eating greedily at loaves of coarse bread which they snatched from the table.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Iasus the serving-boy stepped into the next apartment, and gave the order to one of his fellow slaves.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

There was great anger on Oisin then, and he went where there was a litter of pups, and he bade a serving-boy to nail up the hide of a freshly killed bullock to the wall, and to throw the pups against it one by one.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And one day he called to the serving-boy to come on a journey with him, and to bring the pup in a chain.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892