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SERVANT

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servant substantiv

1. servitor sau servitoare, sugă; (pl.) personal de serviciu.

2. sclav, rob.

3. (mai ales public servant) funcţionar public.

4. (fig.) slujitor, slugă; servitor;

(înv.) your most humble servant prea plecata dumneavoastră slugă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I don't know what I might be fit for, now, as a servant to a stranger.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain 'Your grateful friend and humble servant, JAMES LAURENCE'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

These were the main points of the servants’ evidence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pushed past the servant and rushed into the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a few minutes the servant returned, and with a look which did not quite confirm his words, said he had been mistaken, for that Miss Tilney was walked out.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

It is near four:—in two hours the servants will be up.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But why should one servant return?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Quite right, Mr. Utterson, sir,” replied the servant.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

A smile passed over the servant’s face.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Dost thou dare to raise thy voice against the unworthy servant of mother Church?”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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