To be employed in menial offices about his person was a mark of confidence.

He installed eunuchs in his palace, to wait upon his person and perform menial offices.

At this time, having no servant, we performed for Mr. Ritchie the most menial offices.

Do you mean to reflect on me that I have required menial offices of you?

Any tendency to pride was overcome by enjoining immediately the most menial offices on the offender.

This is forbidden, for they are menial offices which seniors should never be permitted to perform.

At everybody's beck and call, I was employed from morning till night in all kinds of menial offices.

You must now give it up, my son- Idonot like to see you perform these menial offices.

Respectable families were compelled to perform the most menial offices, and young women of education were reduced to rags.

She lit the fire and put the kettle on to boil; she did not consider it beneath her to perform these menial offices.

Sebastian Gomez, the mulatto slave of Murillo, is said to have become enamored of art while performing the menial offices of his master's studio.

But the curé kept him so busily employed in grooming his mule and in other menial offices that the boy found no time for learning.

Still, in cases of necessity and urgent campaigns, he was simple and frugal, toiling with painstaking care in menial offices as much as the rest.

"Is it expected that Violetta Tiepolo will do these menial offices for herself?"