Citations:your servant

English citations of your servant

Greeting

• a. 1923, p. 1847, Ellen Marriage, translator, Honoré de Balzac, Le Cousin Pons:

  "Good-day, M. Fraisier. I hope you will recover your health. Your servant, sir."

  Fraisier went to the door with his client.

• a. 1900, p. 1856, Eleanor Marx Aveling, translator, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary [1], chapter 8:

  The druggist was passing. He had on a frock-coat, nankeen trousers, beaver shoes, and, for a wonder, a hat with a low crown.

  "Your servant! Excuse me, I am in a hurry."

• Ibid., chapter 10:

  "Good evening, Monsieur Binet," she interrupted him, turning on her heel.

  "Your servant, madame," he replied drily; and he went back into his tub.

• 1905, Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel [2], chapter 16:

  Once again he attempted to go, once more her voice, sweet, childlike, almost tender, called him back.

  "Sir Percy."

  "Your servant, Madame."

Humble pronoun

• Genesis 18:5, King James Version:

  And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.