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Ye'll be a young leddy some day, and it's no richt to tak up wi 'servan's.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

I take care to try and express myself clearly ... why, on this occasion, can't you do the same? servan

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Sur, your most umbell servan wile “Deborah Hornbeck.”

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

But me and yer father -- eh, weel we lo'ed her! for to hiz she was like oor ain Isy, -- ay, mair a dochter nor a servan -- wi'a braw lovin kin'ness in her, no to be luikit for frae ony son, and sic as we never had frae ony afore but oor ain

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

I took hame yer leddyship's buik the ither day, ye sent me half a croon by the han 'o' yer servan 'lass.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

Them 'at sleepit aneth me, for there was twa men-servan's aboot the hoose that time -- an' troth there was need o 'them an' mair, sic war the gangin's on! an 'they sleepit whaur I'm tauld ye sleep noo, Cosmo -- them' at sleepit there tellt me 'at never a nicht passed' at they h'ardna soons 'aneth them' at there was no mainner

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

Say 'at they like, ye're but a servan' lass, an 'here am I ower ye!

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

He canna lay 's finger on onything o 'mine but my servan' lass, 'cried the weaver, slapping his thigh-bone -- for there was little else to slap.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

'The butler was, at the same time, an old and trusty servan', 'said Mr. Heywood,' an 'his master was greatly concernt aboot the thing.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

-- An 'noo, Maister Crathie, "he resumed," I'm yer servan', ready to do onything I can.

The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864