yeoman's service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yeoman's service
First recorded in 1595–1605
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His rarity, his eccentricity, and the curious mixing up of his work with Shakespere's have done him something more than yeoman's service with recent critics.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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
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 Lloyd Osbourne
Luther's famous reply to Erasmus On the Bondage of the Will is made to do yeoman's service in this respect.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
Falkner’s fighting powers had done us yeoman’s service after all, was the thought that flashed through my mind—and then I saw that it was not so; that our respite was due to another cause.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
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