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 Lloyd Osbourne
They also can in these days do yeoman's service in giving the bread studies through which men shall be better able to do the world's work and thereby earn better wages.
From Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell
Mr. Sumner was not even an aboriginal abolitionist; he joined and did yeoman's service in the antislavery ranks.
From Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner. by C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol
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
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
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