Sentence Examples

1. This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds but we advance Such virtues only as admit excess, Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence, All-seeing prudence, magnanimity That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue For which antiquity hath left no name, But patterns only, such as Hercules, Achilles, Theseus.
2. Cattanach the servile clerk, always bowing and scraping, was Jones, the nondescript, average-built and average-looking seaman that nobody could describe or find.
3. The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked upon account of their being too servile neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.
4. Some take the broad road of overweening ambition others that of mean and servile flattery others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true religion but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour.