farm-servant

That topic had led them, next, to his business errand at Grailsea — an errand of kindness, as usual; undertaken for the benefit of the miller, who had been his old farm-servant, and who was now hard pressed by serious pecuniary difficulties.

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In former days, however, money was never given, and the wages of a farm-servant then were a suit of clothes, a pair of boots, and some linen, while the women received an apron, some linen, and a few petticoats once a year.

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

In 1805, he proceeded as a farm-servant to the farm of Cassock, in the parish of Eskdalemuir.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

They were of the description usually inhabited by peasants of the richer sort, and consisted of a ground floor, an upper story, and above that a sort of garret under the tiles, which might serve as the abode of pigeons, or perhaps, in case of need, afford sleeping quarters for a farm-servant.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

As a farm-servant and an agricultural labourer, he continued through life to seek repose from toil in the perusal of poetry and the composition of verses.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He must have been a farm-servant, living in a bothy, at least as long as he drove on the road or practised surgery in the slaughter-house.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

When somewhat older, he found employment as a farm-servant; but having married in his twentieth year, he afterwards followed the more precarious occupation of a day-labourer.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

They found Gladys with a farm-servant by her side, apparently either dead or asleep.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

Mighty Preachers and Apostles, like S. Paul or S. Chrysostom; simple girls, like Naaman's maid, or Veronica, the farm-servant; brave women who died martyrs for Jesus in the Arena, and those who _lived_ as witnesses for Jesus, like Grace Darling, and

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

When the farm-servant had done so, he stepped forward.

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931