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The Downton creator believes that the British public remain fascinated by what he calls the "servanted house" and argues that the format is a form of workplace drama, where people from different social backgrounds mix – a successful construct shared with police and hospital shows.

Downton Abbey creator praises Upstairs Downstairs 2010

A confederacy had been for some time formed against me; but the uncles and the nephew are now to be double-servanted [single-servanted they were before]; and those servants are to be double armed when they attend their masters abroad.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Ralph rendered perfect justice to her affection and knew that in her thoughts and her thoroughly arranged and servanted life his turn always came after the other nearest subjects of her solicitude, the various punctualities of performance of the workers of her will.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

When there were plenty of rooms and enough servants there was no reason why they should, as they did in their small, two-servanted house at home, share the same one.

The Enchanted April 1922

The room was a friendly heterogeneous place, the one repository, in the well-ordered and amply-servanted house, of all its unclassified odds and ends: Effie's croquet-box and fishing rods, Owen's guns and golf-sticks and racquets, his step-mother's flower-baskets and gardening implements, even Madame de Chantelle's embroidery frame, and the back numbers of the Catholic Weekly.

The Reef; a novel 1912

When there were plenty of rooms and enough servants there was no reason why they should, as they did in their small, two-servanted house at home, share the same one.

The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

The room was a friendly heterogeneous place, the one repository, in the well-ordered and amply-servanted house, of all its unclassified odds and ends: Effie's croquet-box and fishing rods, Owen's guns and golf-sticks and racquets, his step-mother's flower-baskets and gardening implements, even Madame de Chantelle's embroidery frame, and the back numbers of the

The Reef Edith Wharton 1899

Ralph rendered perfect justice to her affection and knew that in her thoughts and her thoroughly arranged and servanted life his turn always came after the other nearest subjects of her solicitude, the various punctualities of performance of the workers of her will.

The Portrait of a Lady 1881

Ralph rendered perfect justice to her affection and knew that in her thoughts and her thoroughly arranged and servanted life his turn always came after the other nearest subjects of her solicitude, the various punctualities of performance of the workers of her will.

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

Sir'd and obedient servanted 'till I _said_ (to use a mild word)' commend me to the sincerities of this kind of thing. '!

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850