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menial
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    One lawyer could have easily performed the menial task, but three could charge triple for it.†  (source)
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    "Menial laborers like these don't usually live to eighty," she says.†  (source)
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    They order me about, and the more menial the task, the better.†  (source)
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    That meant she didn't do "menial" work, or any work at all, apparently.†  (source)
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    Sometimes Klodwig raced along like a silky bat, hunting sleepy menials, but as he turned corners he gave himself away by the whoosh of air, and in the time it took his eyes to focus, Alessandro would have shifted to his knees on the floor, sweeping crumbs from under the chair in which he had been resting.†  (source)
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    She wiped one brush after another upon a piece of old rag, menially, on purpose.†  (source)
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    And while he's been on the job only a month, Oswald is already sick of the menial labor.†  (source)
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    She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank.†  (source)
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    It was coarse-woven and simply made, without so much as a single bow for trimming, but it was certainly far more suited to the menial work she had to do in it.†  (source)
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    Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast?†  (source)
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    Selling junk for petty cash, our menial jobs, our grimy apartment—the American version of a hut; maybe in America, when Baba looked at me, he saw a little bit of Hassan.†  (source)
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    But other members of our community, not all menials or poor people, were to follow the path down which M. Michel had led the way.†  (source)
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    And lest she forget that she's servant of us all, to her fall the menial tasks in this Ceremony of the Seed.†  (source)
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