Example sentences of "[art] servants ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the far-sighted was Merlin Waterson , who wrote an account of the squire 's household , The Servants ' Hall . |
| 2 | The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants . |
| 3 | They progressed along dark stone corridors , past various pantries and flights of steps , arriving eventually in what later turned out to have been the servants ' hall and was now superficially , and partially , converted for modern living . |
| 4 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 5 | I can recall many hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants ' hall at the end of a day . |
| 6 | Of course , the servants ' hall at Darlington Hall , like any servants ' hall anywhere , was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception , and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee — and at times , I regret to say , members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of , say , Mr Jack Neighbours . |
| 7 | Ruth was in the servants ' hall one day when he returned from yet another picnic . |
| 8 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 9 | The lower servants , if male , are to congregate in the servants ' hall ; if female , in the women 's workroom . |
| 10 | Outside workers , the lowest of the low , are to have their own ‘ mess room ’ over the stables , though head gardeners and grooms may use the servants ' hall . |
| 11 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 12 | The rich , however , also expanded the market for more modest goods than silks , Chippendale furniture and ornate carriages , for they also purchased uniforms for their servants and furniture for the servants ' hall , as well as the utensils for their great kitchens . |
| 13 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 14 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 15 | This one and the next , Chalk Farm , were tiled in white and buff , reminding her of the servants ' bathrooms at Temple Stephen . |
| 16 | Whereas the family sitting-rooms and bedrooms were heavy with drapes and solid mahogany , the servants ' quarters in the attic were small and bare . |
| 17 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 18 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |
| 19 | In his post-war writings authorial intention , banished to the servants ' quarters by Richards and the American New Criticism , was restored to a dignity it should never have lost ; and his abandonment of discipleship to Richards now looks with hindsight both belated and inevitable . |
| 20 | In the old days — the good good old days — a member of the family would never even consider entering the servants ' quarters or the kitchens . |
| 21 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 22 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 23 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 24 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 25 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 26 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 27 | The door to the servants ' quarters in the attics had been nailed up . |
| 28 | It was , as Theda had not been surprised to find , up in the attics in the servants ' quarters . |
| 29 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 30 | The servants ' quarters ? |