Sentences with phrase «young servant of»

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He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.

Then the king's servants who attended him said: «Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; 3and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quarters, under the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of the women.

The executive seeks young men who will be effective servants of the business, and young men present themselves as the answer to his needs.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

She was young, she was pretty, she was loyal, and best of all, she was a servant.

In Young's translation Phillipians 2:6 - 7 says: who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God, but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made - & so there was a voluntary knosis (emptying) of himself.

Thus arose chivalry; when the young noble reached man's estate and formally assumed his arms, the Church blessed his sword with the prayer that he would devote it to the defense of widows, orphans, and the servants of God.

I have been young and am now grown old, and never have I seen a righteous man forsaken... for the LORD is a lover of justice and will not forsake his loyal servants.

Serving first as a counselor and two subsequent years as Co-Director, Brian worked to establish a tradition of sustainability and servant leadership for the Chapter at Brigham Young University.

Despite technological advances and slowly evolving parenting styles that accommodate them, modern women are often as confined in their homes with their young children as the servants, wet nurses or nannies of the last century were.

In the early 1970s he joined Rothschild's Central Policy Review Staff at No 10 in the Heath government where he learnt to admire Heath and make contacts and friends with a generation of the ablest young civil servants who would rise to power and influence from which he benefitted.

(Peter Hoskin has described the enthusiasm of younger civil servants for change on this site.)

In a recent case, the DA's Office said the family made inappropriate marital arrangements that rendered the wife of Vikas younger brother Vishal, a servant.

«It is a gross misrepresentation of what I said to the young lady at the Telegraph,» he told the BBC Newsnight programme as he denied having built servants» quarters from his parliamentary allowance.

Marketers could benefit from the study's findings, says Kim, by pitching brands in a servant context to population groups and regions that have been shown in previous studies to be more materialistic than others, such as younger consumers and residents of metropolitan areas.

Researchers in Europe tracked the mental function of more than 7,000 British civil servants for a decade, and they found that even the youngest participants, who were between the ages of 45 and 49 at the outset, generally displayed slight yet measurable declines in short - term memory, mental reasoning, and verbal facility over the course of the study.

While the young lovers drive the plot, the comic heart of a play like this one belongs to the servants and the hapless older generation.

Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada), one of the family's young servants, becomes a faithful and dedicated friend to Amir.

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

Julia Roberts is amusingly nasty and catty (there's a better word here that rhymes with «witchy») as the Queen, though her comedic secret weapon is the indefatigable Nathan Lane (best known to younger viewers as the voice of Snowbell the cat in the Stuart Little movies) as her put - upon servant Brighton.

The Gist: Grace Marks is a notorious murderess, going on trial at a young age for assisting in the murder of the owner of the house where she's a servant, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin).

Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages.

Florence Pugh has come flying in out of nowhere with this delectably sinful turn as the young wife of an impotent brute who falls in love with a servant and won't let anything stand in the way of their relationship, no matter how many lines of decency and morality need crossing.

As mentioned above, the scope of this movie is epic, but Chadha's film, which she co-wrote with husband, frequent collaborator and accomplished screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges, is also a very intimate one, with the heart of the story focussing on a young Hindu servant, Jeet (Manish Dayal), and his intended Muslim bride, Aalia (Huma Qureshi).

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843.

The young girls were raised as servants and hid away from society in the absence of their respective father figures.

Keeping the novel's three - part structure, but switching the story from Victorian London to 1930s colonial Korea, then under Japanese rule, Sook - hee (Kim Tae - ri) is a young and attractive pickpocket, masquerading as a house servant to con a wealthy, but socially isolated, heiress (Kim Min - hee) out of her fortune.

The Little Hours stars Dave Franco as a young servant fleeing from his master, who ultimately finds refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns during the middle ages.

However, their plans for a testosterone - only oasis of solitude is ruined upon the arrival from Boston of Ruth Lowell (Mamie Gummer), a gorgeous, eligible young heiress accompanied by her equally - attractive domestic servant (Blythe Danner).

This rawly symbolic work is at the same time filled with clichés of the genre, the mysterious, distant «other land,» in this case a wounded, vaguely Eastern Europe, the sullen, withdrawn mad «scientist,» the hulking man - servant, the young couple whose innocence is threatened.

Based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James

In the case of Otavio (Tavinho Teixera) and his young trophy wife Gilda (Ana Luiza Rios), this extends to the hiring, slaughtering and devouring of servants who come to their coastal mansion in the hope of steady work.

Self - taught, the youngest daughter of a senior civil servant.

What's the difference between older and younger generations of servants vis - à - vis their respect for hierarchy, and between the servants at Beechwood versus Upleigh?

First, there's Geoffrey (1938), a young and naïve schoolteacher who enlists during WWII -LRB-»... there would be, he imagined, an intense but brief struggle in Europe») only to find himself in Nazi - occupied Poland in an unspeakable situation; Billy (1859), an industrious Englishman who works his way out of poverty and gets caught in a love triangle; Elena (2029), an Italian scientist whose ground - breaking work in the field of human consciousness doesn't seem to eliminate her loneliness; Jeanne (1822), a simple - minded French servant who comes to know God and embraces change; and Anya (1971), an American, Joplin-esque musician whose talent and thirst for freedom send her on a glorious yet self - destructive path.

HAND - STITCHED INSPIRATION The flag that inspired Francis Scott Key's «Star - Spangled Banner» was sewn in 1813 by Mary Pickersgill, with help from a servant and a handful of relatives that included her young daughter, Caroline.

In Chevalier's imaginative, elegant novel, the lovely young woman is given a name, Griet; an age, 16; and a job, servant in the household of the painter himself, a household full of secrets and prejudice.

Fletcher adds several characters to the original tale and tells it from the point of view of Marjan, a young, crippled servant girl and storyteller, who is brought to the harem and kept there to help the desperate Shahrazad find stories.

With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.

People were reluctant to pay attention when the victims were servant girls or young women of color, ascribing the crimes to a gang of «bad blacks,» in part because Austin was prosperous and growing; murders in the news were bad publicity.

A young woman in a crushingly loveless marriage seizes freedom in the only way left to her; a mother is forced to confront a chilling, unforgiveable crime she committed out of love; an ambitious servant seduces both master and mistress; a young prostitute quietly, inexorably plots revenge on the madam who holds her hostage; a husband and wife must forgive each other for the death of their child.

She came from a «very socially engaged family» of public servants, teachers, social workers and pro bono lawyers, she said, and was «given books that helped define my future life, even though I was too young to realize that they would.»

Human Mask (2014) is a film set in post-disaster Fukushima that depicts the listless activity of a trained monkey - servant dressed in the mask of a young woman.

In 1915, a member of one of Canada's wealthiest families was killed by a young domestic servant.

It was erected in honour of a heroic young civil servant who perished in the Ottawa River while trying to save a cabinet minister's daughter who had fallen through weak ice.

Spotlight on Outstanding Public Servants: Deborah Templer, a commercial litigation partner in the Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLP Toronto office, has been named the winner of the Canadian Bar Association's 2015 Young Lawyers Pro Bono Award.