eye-servant

Not only this, but joining his fellows in secret complaints of ill-treatment, he returned to the sullen moroseness of the African race, working as an eye-servant under fear of the lash.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

Is a servant who is an eye-servant to his earthly master an eye-servant to his heavenly master?

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

I looked back with a feeling of relief to Weston, and my good Polly, who would scorn to be an eye-servant or men-pleaser.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

No one that comes after him will ever say, 'Here was the finger of a hollow eye-servant.'

English Literature for Boys and Girls

The footfall of his master never caused him to quicken his pace; he did his whole duty faithfully and conscientiously, not as an "eye-servant," as the Bible phrases it, but as a man who fully realizes the importance of the work in which he is engaged.

Life and history of William O'Neal : or, The man who sold his wife, 1896

A well-trained slave, who respects himself, is far more valuable in any view than a stupid eye-servant.

Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves. William Andrew 1856

The child is often stultified in early life, and, without self-respect, grows up a stupid, slovenly, and insufferable eye-servant.

Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves. William Andrew 1856

If he have to ask at every turn the world's suffrage; if he cannot dispense with the world's suffrage, and make his own suffrage serve, he is a poor eye-servant; the work committed to him will be _mis_done.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Humphreys exclaimed, that he had disobeyed his orders, and was an eye-servant.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805

Elsie had never been an eye-servant, but had always conscientiously obeyed her father, whether present or absent, and henceforward she constantly struggled to restrain her feelings, and even in solitude denied her bursting heart the relief of tears; though it was not always she could do this, for she was but young in the school of affliction, and often, in spite of every effort, grief would have its way, and she was ready to sink beneath her heavy weight of sorrow.

Holidays at Roselands Martha Finley 1868