yeoman's service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yeoman's service
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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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 Saintsbury, George
And he thought what yeoman's service Longcluse might and would have rendered him in this situation.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
There was something of the pallor of the sick-room left with him—a slight tenuity in his hands and brightness in his eye which did him yeoman’s service.
From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony
He has been called the Patrick Henry of Hardpan, where he has done yeoman's service in the cause of civil and religious liberty.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose
He did more than yeoman's service, no doubt, but we cannot believe that, without him, the castle would have been taken.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
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