eye-service

Bad temper, injustice, and tyranny make eye-service, but not heart-service.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

And indeed they were worth looking at (which men never are to my ideas, when they trick themselves with gewgaws), but none was so well worth eye-service as my own beloved Lorna.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Thus he made it his pleasure to gain some distinction in his studies, and day after day rendered unimpeachable eye-service to his employer, Mr. K -.

The Body-Snatcher 2004

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

For the rule is, that you must obey your masters in all things, and do the work they set you about with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart as unto Christ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good-will doing service as to the Lord, and not as to men.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

-- A. 'Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.'

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

He knew he could not give up these things -- eye-service, lip-service, heart-service -- of which he had supped so thirstily.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

As he testifies: "There was little of the fear of God, so far as I could see, little of true piety; but abundance of hypocrisy, eye-service, deception, abuse of the poor sick people in the hospitals, such love and hatred as are common among the children of this world, and the most shocking vices of every kind."

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

The texts were usually like these: "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters," and "not with eye-service, as men pleasers."

Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina 1898