1 At last, having collected enough to keep life in him, he departed for Europe, and tracked his enemies from city to city, working his way in any menial capacity, but never overtaking the fugitives.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him.
3 The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a menial, who announced that a monk demanded admittance at the postern gate.
4 She now did almost everything for him, and he felt more at home with her, less ashamed of accepting her menial offices, than with Connie.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 9 5 She loved having his body in her charge, absolutely, to the last menial offices.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 9 6 The women bore themselves like ladies and she knew they were ladies, though menial tasks were their daily lot and they didn't know where their next dress was coming from.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXV 7 From his complete inattention to the tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table. 8 And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body.