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    1. She allowed herself to believe this woman meant her no harm and that she would be given some menial job in the palace convent or whatever it was until she learned the language and began to teach them about such things as motors and electronics


    2. companions had returned to their menial task


    3. Ozzie was standing to one side with Chas, the managers of the dig – above such menial tasks as digging


    4. These menial tasks fitted in between the practical and


    5. When the landlord, annuitant, or monied man, has a greater revenue than what he judges sufficient to maintain his own family, he employs either the whole or a part of the surplus in maintaining one or more menial servants


    6. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing


    7. But the maintenance of a menial servant never is restored


    8. A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers ; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants


    9. The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity


    10. The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject, or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured

    11. Thus, not only the great landlord or the rich merchant, but even the common workman, if his wages are considerable, may maintain a menial servant; or he may sometimes go to a play or a puppet-show, and so contribute his share towards maintaining one set of unproductive labourers; or he may pay some taxes, and thus help to maintain another set, more honourable and useful, indeed, but equally unproductive


    12. That portion of his revenue which a rich man annually spends, is, in most cases, consumed by idle guests and menial servants, who leave nothing behind them in return for their consumption


    13. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago


    14. In a country where the surplus produce of a large estate must be consumed upon the estate itself, it will frequently be more convenient for the proprietor, that part of it be consumed at a distance from his own house, provided they who consume it are as dependent upon him as either his retainers or his menial servants


    15. These weren't menial servants to the Naud, these were tasked to maintaining the essential services: galley workers, lab techs, and most obviously as the personal sex slaves of the officers


    16. They are only servants who work without doors, as menial servants work within


    17. But if the ten pounds worth of corn and other necessaries which were consumed by the artificer, had been consumed by a soldier, or by a menial servant, the value of that part of the annual produce which existed at the end of the six months, would have been ten pounds less than it actually is in consequence of the labour of the artificer


    18. Though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain, and may, perhaps, actually maintain, more than a thousand people, yet, as those people pay for every thing which they get from him, as he gives scarce any thing to any body but in exchange for an equivalent, there is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him, and his authority extends only over a few menial servants


    19. A growing mass of menial issues all caused by the fact that most of their equipment was almost thirty years old


    20. Secondly, a great part of the revenue, arising from both the rent of land and the profits of stock, is annually distributed among the same rank, in the wages and maintenance of menial servants, and other unproductive labourers

    21. “What, you called us out here because of some broken carts? Get your children out there carrying the wheat by hand, and put your back into it! That is what you are there for – to do menial labor!”


    22. William helped Stan in the garage, performing menial tasks such as changing the motor oil and tires for Stan’s customers


    23. They weren’t particularly welcome in Costa Rica and usually could find a place for themselves only in the most undesirable of areas, laboring in menial jobs – hence his welcome reception by authorities when attempting to locate and return them to Nicaragua


    24. He felt strangely humbled as never before, in spite of the menial and unskilled nature of his existence


    25. This is not an act of elitism but rather one of practicality: Those who are not intelligent enough to engage in the roles assigned to us—roles that require a considerable mental capacity—are better suited to menial work than to faction work


    26. Menial work is required for the survival of society, and is therefore just as important as faction work


    27. worked menial jobs to keep the ship moving


    28. He worked menial jobs, e


    29. I was not even required to do what I was trained for, but instead had to render menial tasks, among them cleaning the room of one of the non-coms


    30. Meanwhile, Dave doesn’t like his job much because it is too menial - a monkey could do it

    31. There were dishes to wash and stack, provisions to fetch, red wine to water down, cheese to grate and a hundred assorted menial tasks to do


    32. Normally a woman would resent it with every fibre of her being but Amanda knew she was heading for a career of street life prostitution or at best menial employment


    33. They were probably uneducated, and in menial forms of employment and thus


    34. Offenders against children are likely to have menial or temporary jobs, be socially marginalized, frustrate and better related to kids than to adults


    35. A work certificate at the age of fourteen relieved him of the miseries of his sparse learning; he left school with no trade in hand and the only jobs available were menial and with poor wages


    36. John frequently did menial jobs for me on my property and whenever I could I


    37. This is a good time to do those menial, detailed, boring tasks that everyone tends to put off – your accounts, balancing the cheque book, filing, etc


    38. The meaningless and menial practices of an ostentatious and false humility are incompatible with the appreciation of the source of your salvation and the recognition of the destiny of your spirit-born souls


    39. Since Peter so revered and honored Jesus in his heart, it was not strange that his soul resented the thought of Jesus' kneeling there before him in the attitude of a menial servant and proposing to wash his feet as would a slave


    40. Still, it was appealing to think of sitting at a computer in a fairly silent office, with nobody swearing at her, possibly doing boring and menial work but not being verbally abused or berated by anyone

    41. Our science fiction stories are filled with other worldly beings that invade us for our life-rich world, to enslave us into menial service, or even turn us into a gourmet recipe for their cookbooks


    42. I thank God that I have wealth and servants to carry out the menial tasks, without which a man can never be truly free


    43. Members of The Host’s Menial Sentries run down the stairs and fix themselves into trenches of rock and machines


    44. Many voters saw the wisdom in their ideas to re-institute pay for labor at menial tasks once performed by inmates of penitentiaries


    45. Before the Beatles hit it big, all four wound up working menial jobs, anything from chimney sweep to someone who rushed the growler


    46. Yes, she concluded, here on these grounds she found contentment and comfort from her pains of life; all her troubles and all the ills of the world, even that dreadful war across the ocean, seemed menial while in the sanctuary of this place, even though her mind was wont to churn and perplex about issues over which she had no control


    47. ” And after a few more minutes of talk about her family and other menial matters, their conversation ended pleasantly


    48. He was willing to withstand the petty slights and menial work for the opportunity to work aside a real genius


    49. Now what I suggest is that the menial task is more the sort of work that dockyard workers


    50. Her job was the menial stuff





































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