yeoman's service
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of yeoman's service
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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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 Anthony Trollope
Augustine was the ablest of the early Christian fathers and he did yeoman's service in laying broad and deep the foundations of the Christian church and in defending it against the heretics.
From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
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 Ambrose Bierce
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
The two men did yeoman's service in carrying through the 1850 compromise, and afterward in persuading Georgia not to take part in the Nashville convention—a disunionist scheme which proved abortive.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
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