wait at table
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Mr Karim was just 24 when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at table during Queen Victoria's golden jubilee in 1887 - four years after Mr Brown's death.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2011
He asked her to stay and wait at table the night he was taken ill; she said if he wished it she would, and then he said, 'Never mind; I don't feel well.'
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)
The whole of your duty is to clean the knives, and wait at table.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
While Parent went to look for the lady's maid, to wait at table; who came in great astonishment.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Maupassant, Guy de
The steward and I had to wait at table.
From Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures by Groome, William H. C.
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