manservant
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In Note 35, she finds a role model in Victor Hugo, who, Ms. McCracken tells us, asked his manservant to take all his clothes, forcing him to stay home and write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Sounding sturdy as Leporello, Giovanni’s manservant, the bass-baritone Adam Plachetka was less satisfying playing neutrality than was Mattei.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
He began in the comics as Stephen Strange's manservant and sidekick.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
So he went to India and brought back a manservant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
Suddenly the thing exploded, jettisoning an amazing amount of tunnel waste directly at the unfortunate manservant.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Peers and commoners, shopmen and farmers, maidservants and menservants, crowded into the Gothic-vaulted Baron's Hall, eyed each other across weighted tables that stretched the whole hundred feet of the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
King George VI ordered Buckingham Palace's menservants out of their tail coats and white ties, into "battle dress" of less yardage, to save cloth and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
She gave it when one of the menservants announced that Char had come calling.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
All the menservants had run out into the streets after news of the progress of the fire, and the women were scared by their absence.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Evelyn Everett-Green
The real Dukes and Sir Harrys took snuff with a grace, but they did not do anything so low as to smoke, and their menservants faithfully aped their preferences and their aversions.
From The Social History of Smoking by George Latimer Apperson
