Sometimes, those who deserve death become most useful servants; but not when they whine their desire to live!

He does not need you - he has many more useful servants - but he won't forget you again.

Saturnyne herself cared little for Dimples and saw him only as a useful servant.

And I don't think even now that he particularly wants them: they would be obedient (perhaps), but not terribly useful servants.

Kaelor was a useful servant, but dealing with him required a good deal of patience.

It is faith and the obedience of a humble heart that can make a useful servant out of reason.

He had been a loyal and useful public servant, and the emperor was deeply grieved.

I didn't know how to break him of the practice without dismissing him, and in general he's a very useful servant.

That's what all the biots are here for ... to be turned into useful servants by the passengers on board.

She seemed not to miss him so much as to regret the depature of a useful servant.