Servitors

I have perseveringly frisked in the high places of iniquity, I have junketed with all evil gods, and the utmost they could pretend to offer any of their servitors was a spasm. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

For instance, when I first went there, the small boys, three at a time, waited on the sixth form at their dinner, being called servitors, handing plates, pouring out beer, or holding back the long sleeves of the big boys 'gowns, as they carved for themselves at the end of the table. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Minor characters were sustained by the "servitors," who were paid, as our actors are at the present time, by weekly wages, and had no other interest in the success of the theatre with which they were associated, beyond desire that its exchequer might always be equal to their claims upon it. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

Literature, by substituting a different standard of rank, tends to republican equality; and, as one instance of this, properly belonging to the chapter of _servants_, which originally led to this discussion, it ought to be known that the class of "servitors," once a large body in Oxford, have gradually become practically extinct under the growing liberality of the age. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

The left, and their not-so-well-camouflaged servitors, with anarcholibertarian impulses mention myths of the past, in order to break down the loyalty to fellow citizens which is the necessary first community of values, which allows for the continuity of advancing civilization. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Crazed wizards worshiping ancient things that existed millennia ago; hideous secrets scrawled in forbidden tomes of flesh; contacting evil servitors who will do the sorcerer's bidding ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

You don't have to plow through dozens of pages where Schmeglork the Mysterious explains to the bemused pig-tender hero that the world has been darkened by Sauron-clone and his Not-quite-Nazgûl servitors, and that the entire history of the world hinges on the hero's ability to insert Magical Tab A into Sorcerous Slot B. (Silence, Freudians!) ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I finished sipping my tea of delicious and most expensive aroma, and our slant-eyed, dark-skinned servitors carried the pretty gear away, and I read, continuing De Casseres: ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew the rightness of the books, the relation of high thinking to high-conduct, the transmutation of midnight thought into action in the high place on the poop of a coal-carrier in the year nineteen-thirteen, my woman beside me, my ancestors behind me, my slant-eyed servitors under me, the beasts beneath me and beneath the heel of me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This group of madmen met frequently and passed wholesale judgments upon offending members and servitors of the Oligarchy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Other men had discovered the trick of expression, of making words obedient servitors, and of making combinations of words mean more than the sum of their separate meanings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He would build a patriarchal grass house like Tati's, and have it and the valley and the schooner filled with dark-skinned servitors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That sent the humans into greater despair, as they pointed their giant foam fingers at the winged servitors of Hastu—He-Who-Should-Probably-Stop-Being-Named. ❋ Kevin J. Anderson (2010)

Near it, one a few feet from it, the other a little further from it, the backs of their necks bitten through, lay two dead servitors of the ubar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The few habited Benedictine brothers who were doing their best to go about their duties and keep the horarium of the day were totally lost among this throng of visiting magnates and their servitors, some arriving, some riding out to see the town or visit acquaintances, grooms coming and going with horses nervous and edgy in such a crowd, squires unsaddling and unloading their lords 'baggage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

UNICORN POINT 1221 so that for weeks at a time they were fed only by the auto - matic servitors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He stepped out'to encounter several android servitors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Edward Morris 11:53 pm: “The Serpent & The Rainbow” was a good example of ghosts as servitors the movie, I mean but of course they get out when Big White Man Comes To Save The Day ™ ❋ Unknown (2010)

My [servitor] [ate] my [homework] ❋ Sane Prophet (2007)

"That [dragon knight] thing outside of [SSC] just did [80] damage to me" "Man that's some servitor shit" ❋ Spoojy (2022)