menials

Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad.

World Of Lather 2011

Every white Southerner, who wants peons beneath him, who believes in hereditary menials and a privileged aristocracy, or who hates certain races because of their characteristics, would resent this.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Built in the shape of a gigantic cube, four hundred feet on a side, with a tower on each corner, it could house three hundred prisoners, plus the forty soldiers of the garrison and their commander, the civilian governor and his staff, and the four dozen cooks, orderlies, grooms, and other menials necessary for the running of the establishment.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Scott Terris was a man who had given little thought to those who inhabited the lower levels; he had never been below the levels of the mechanicals and had had little contact with those of the gray denim, with the exception of a few menials in his own household and those who tended the mechanicals of the intermediate sections.

"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010

At all events, under her occasional guidance and blistering rebukes, I drove Mason's menials until the place was running like a home-bound tea clipper.

Fiancée 2010

"And if I did not yield well, " she asked, -would you whip me, or have your menials do so?

Cinnamon Roll 2010

The average jumbo team numbered twenty-two drillers, twenty-one chuck tenders who positioned the points of the steel bits on the rock, and five nippers, the lowly menials assigned to feeding fresh steel to the drillers and tenders.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

For she had soon discovered that beneath his revolting exterior there lurked a monster whose depraved tastes would have had Caligula throwing up the window and hollering for the peelers; enforced bouts with Joe and other menials, while the husband of her bosom cheered them on, had been the least of it, and to make matters worse she had been drawn into the dark affairs of the Kuklos.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The average jumbo team numbered twenty-two drillers, twenty-one chuck tenders who positioned the points of the steel bits on the rock, and five nippers, the lowly menials assigned to feeding fresh steel to the drillers and tenders.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Far from making them seem like menials, these chores gave them an air of authority.

Beard 2010