yeoman's service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yeoman's service
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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Moore was entitled to say to himself that he had done yeoman's service to the principles for which a Whig administration then stood, and yet had shown his complete independence of persons.
From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Mr. Hamilton has done yeoman's service by his collation and publication of all the manuscript readings found on the margins of "Hamlet" in Mr. Collier's folio.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
Mr. Herbert Welsh has been for many years its leading spirit, and others who have done yeoman's service in the cause are the late Professor Painter, Mr. Brosius, and Mr. Matthew K. Sniffen.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Charles Alexander Eastman
If his stammering, however, often did him true "yeoman's service," sometimes it led him into scrapes.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
Augustine was the ablest of the early Christian fathers and he did yeoman's service in laying broad and deep the foundations of the Christian church and in defending it against the heretics.
From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
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