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
His body was indefatigable, doing him yeoman's service in this breathless chase of pleasures.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
He had done his country more than yeoman's service.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
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