yeoman's service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yeoman's service
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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The pastor did yeoman's service that day, and at sundown they all went back to their ship, very grumpy and dissatisfied, returning no wiser than when they'd come.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
In doing this, you did me yeoman's service, although you are even now not aware of this.
From The Heart of Denise and Other Tales by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
Long may he live to do yeoman's service in the cause of the beautiful and the true!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
That mournful search in which he had borne so active and intrepid a part had, he felt, rendered him yeoman’s service.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
Rosabell Pickett did yeoman’s service at the badly tuned piano; but her own voice had the sweetness of a crow with the carrying power of that same non-soothing bird.
From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.
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