Ma Kosti had captured Nikki's stomach, heart, and slavish loyalty in very short order, Armsman Roic had played games with him, and Kareen Koudelka had let him help in the lab.

The elite 1 Percent ensures the slavish loyalty of its political handmaidens by flooding their campaign coffers with money squeezed from the 99 Percent as deposits, fees and interest.

Ruth thought that he had confused eyes; they were alert but puzzled, a little like a dog's-given to a slavish loyalty, bordering on fawning.

I mean seriously, has anyone ever seen the ad for "Hench Persons Required: slavish loyalty a necessity, oddly styled uniforms provided"?

The demons of Limbo traditionally display an attitude of slavish loyalty to its sovereign, and act as servants.

That doesn't mean that the president can't fire people or transfer people whose activities in office displease him, but it does mean that high public officials have a higher duty than slavish loyalty to whoever happens to be president at any particular time.

He knew where to find the one who had killed Jerlys Horlbar, and knew, too, that he could use this information against him, perhaps to heighten his slavish loyalty to Bregan D'aerthe, or perhaps for other reasons.

She said his "chief qualification for the position seems to have been his longtime friendship with Noriega and his slavish loyalty to the dictator."

The Royal Academy of Arts, for example, maintained a slavish loyalty to portraiture, landscapes and the inspiration of literature, while just across the English Channel the art world was alive with one 'ism' after another - Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism.