In vain, on her arrival, did she look around for her father or Antonio; none but strange faces met her eye: menials, profoundly respectful, but who knew nor saw anything but what their master pleased.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
In this succession the development of wife-purchase and the decadence of mother-descent maybe traced, and it is significant that there is a tendency first toward partial enslavement of the wife and later toward the multiplication of wives to the limit of the husband's means, and toward transforming all, or all but one, of the wives into menials.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
No longer did he look upon the Church as his great enemy, and all clergymen as bound menials.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody