How To Use Menial In A Sentence

Why should we just do menial work when we are capable of much more? The Sun
As if in relate of a king's barbarous thoughts, Oswald right widely separated appears lusting for a red red blood of bad Gloucester, a attempted attempted attempted attempted murder which would win a menial reward from Goneril. Archive 2009-11-01
A new block of masonry was built up from the ground of such height and lordliness that the remnant of the old pile left standing became as a mere cup-bearer and culinary menial beside it. The Hand of Ethelberta
Binny I 'ope, Sir Edward, there's no objections to my leading Miss Sharpe to the hymenial halter. Our American Cousin
Armenialandlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan) is the largest lake in this mountain range Geography-note

Despite their rather chichi digs, Kingsley leaves early each morning to dig ditches and run a convenience store - menial, undignified tasks.
The mechanisms on catamenial epilepsy show that ovarian steroid hormones not only regulate reproductive behavior but also exert short-term and long'-term effects on the brain.
I felt pretty low while I was doing this sub-menial task, but a job's a job, and you can't feed yourself, my angel.
Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers.
By chance, while working as an English teacher I also have a degree in English I discovered other women were suffering from what is termed catamenial epilepsy, seizures caused by the menstrual cycle. Jo Ann Greenwald: The Story of Emily's Edibles
The last described form of dysmenorrhœa is sometimes attended with spasmodic contraction of the _os uteri_, thus preventing the catamenial flow. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
The rear tyre got punctured, but with the help of a couple of menial workers and a beggar, my father was able to push the car to the tyre repair garage.
In Kabul, they usually have low-paying, menial jobs such as janitorial work.
Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
-- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young primarily for menial pursuits such as domestics.
This is the real world and menial jobs must still be regarded as employment. The Sun
Kitchen work at that time was considered menial labour; perhaps if a cook became skilled enough he might be called a craftsman, but he would never be valued for his contribution in the same way as a lawyer or an architect is. René Redzepi: 'What we eat matters. There's no conflict between a better meal and a better world'
The latter species has lecanorine apothecia with black hymenial disks.
Imagine trying to disarm a bomb while also having to deal with menial chores and talk on the phone at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
Somebody is "hived" and severely punished almost every year for allowing plebes to perform menial duties for him. The colored cadet at West Point : autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy,
They originate either like the basidia, from the sub-hymenial cells (Fig. 250), or from special hyphæ deeper down in the trama of the gill (Fig. 249). Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
Then there will be either lamellae, or gills, or pores, with hymenial layers bearing the basidia.
The nearest university is a six to eight hours drive, so many of the children go on to work in a nearby factory doing menial labour.
Today they would receive treatment - but in the 1940s they were publicly shamed, stripped of their badges of rank in front of their comrades and ordered to carry out menial tasks on another station.
When they hit the fleet, they face a year of menial tasks - scrubbing toilets, burning trash, picking up litter.
They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
While she was gone a menial came by to light the ceiling lamps, a touch with a burning taper on the end of a pole and the gas wicks glowed to life.
Emmenagogues are remedies which have the property of exciting the catamenial flow; ecbolics, or abortives, are drugs which excite contraction of the uterus, and are supposed to have the power of expelling its contents. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
They also will be offered the chance to work with leading philanthropic organisations and the bank is removing some of the most menial tasks. Times, Sunday Times
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Burlesques
Beneath the gills there is a cavity, the hymenial chamber, which is still closed in this illustrated sample.
The report said that that 75 percent of the children do menial jobs, such as street vending and domestic service, or work as shoeshine boys, car caretakers, and in agriculture.
Yet although they did endure minor hardship and took menial jobs, it remained an artificial exercise. Times, Sunday Times
The outcome of this educational vacuum is low-paid, menial work.
Imagine trying to disarm a bomb while also having to deal with menial chores and talk on the phone at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
That means his mission commander can ask him to clean the air filters, unload some equipment, or take care of other menial tasks.
If you cannot see them properly, push gently on the cover slip until the hymenial elements lie free in the medium.
On arrival, he found himself in a labour camp, being forced to do menial and unskilled work.
Try to set yourself a menial task - eg, setting the table, cleaning the bath, making the tea - whilst you sing.
He left the group at the height of their initial success, apparently renouncing worldly wealth and disappearing into the darkness of psychiatric hospitals and menial jobs. Times, Sunday Times
Most of them have done menial work throughout their student life to help see them through university.
Although much of the work was menial, Richard never felt servile when he was in a hotel. YELLOW BIRD
This is called the _sub-hymenial_ layer or _sub-hymenium_ (Fig. 250). Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
That explains the unconcealed wrath of Lalkishenchand and the menial manners of Naraadham raining hell fire on Mr Lyngdoh in particular, and on whistleblowers and curtain-raisers in general.
The stairs leading from the servants level to ground were well-travelled routes, with untold scores of menials scurrying to and fro between their masters and duties.
To get by and earn at least some money, many are forced into degrading and menial work.
Each first-class cavalryman, three or four second-class cavalrymen and sixteen infantrymen had a slave or paid servant to look after baggage and perform menial chores.
After release from prison he was limited to menial jobs. Times, Sunday Times
Palmariales - Pihiellales - Plocamiales - Rhodogorgonales - Rhodymeniales algae, have the pigment phycoerythrin, which reflects red light and absorbs blue light. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
Schizopora species have only hymenial cystidia and no tramacystidia.
Since the perithecium grows out into the medium from the hymenium after nuclear pairing, this is ascohymenial development.
It used to be a common practice in the country, in sending marriages to the press, to tack on a bit of poetry in the shape of some sweet hymenial sentimentality. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Domestic helpers are usually associated with menial jobs and household chores.
I ran menial errands, tasted everything, and feigned indifference towards the whole process.
They also will be offered the chance to work with leading philanthropic organisations and the bank is removing some of the most menial tasks. Times, Sunday Times
Inexpensive areas to live are not, as some sophisticates on the coast suppose, attractive only to dullards and menial workers.
The immigrant population occupies most of the menial and less remunerative forms of employment which Venezuelans themselves avoid.
Closer to our own time, Joseph Heller and William Gaddis spent years in obscurity doing menial writing-related work in order to write novels that at first few people cared about. Art and Culture
Around half of those who use night buses are poorly paid workers who do essential but menial tasks. Times, Sunday Times
His daily duties entailed preparing vegetables, doing the dishes and the other menial tasks that no one else wanted.
While she was gone a menial came by to light the ceiling lamps, a touch with a burning taper on the end of a pole and the gas wicks glowed to life.
There’s economic sense in delegating menial tasks, but the consumer retail market has gone down the path of “just good enough”, setting up an ever-faster upgrade/replacement cycle Matthew Yglesias » What’s Not the Matter With American Manufacturing
I don't shrink from menial household chores. Times, Sunday Times
When King Mark saw him do so, as fast as Sir Dinadan rode toward them, King Mark rode froward them with all his menial meiny. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
But, as already stated, the goldsmith was a village menial in the Maratha villages, and Sir D. Ibbetson thinks that the Jat really considers the Sunar to be distinctly inferior to himself. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
They will be allowed to perform menial tasks that require no skill whatsoever.
If your addled brain cannot focus on the real work at hand, busy yourself with menial tasks like cleaning, filing and arranging.
What scintilla of evidence is there that our evildoing enemies are currently pursuing, or ever have been, a strategy of menial labour infiltration? London Olympics security panics deserve their place in the Sun | Marina Hyde
But here the Lord of Glory girds Himself with the apron of the slave, and almightiness addresses itself to menial service. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
Maude continued to be bowerwoman to her mistress; but some of the more menial functions usually discharged by one who filled that office, were now given to a younger girl, who bore the name of Eva de Scanteby. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
He performed menial duties in return for instruction with poor board and lodging.
With the help of Local 1877, some were hired by other unionized cleaning companies, others found employment in small, nonunion janitorial firms, and still others found work as cooks, dishwashers, and in other menial jobs.
Right glad would I be to visit you & your dear family & pass many pleasant moments in your domestic circle recounting olden times & descanting somewhat perhaps upon your future professional & my future hymenial prospects. Augusta County: B. Estill to John McCue, February 13, 1860
It was really an added pang to go, on their account, but the carriage was waiting at the door; the 'domestique' had already carried our baggage to the steam-tram station; the kindly menial train formed around us for an ultimate Literature and Life (Complete)
I spent yesterday at work avoiding my bald, ogrish boss, Steve, lest I be sent on more pointless and menial errands. Bard Diary Entry
In fact, a good number of people are considering them vital to a healthy post-industrial economy, as they take the lowest-paid and most menial jobs.
As one of the more respected maids, she did not have to bother with the menial tasks such as preparing the fires, she was merely there to serve the food, and assist in the general goings on of castle life.
Lie thou down with me on thy own bed, after the catamenial bath, on the night of the eighth or the fourteenth day of the moon. ' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
All menial tasks like cleaning in temples and private households were undertaken by bondmaids whose position was not high in the society.
The place in which they do dwell is one in which the working poor, clothed in the stigmatizing uniforms of their menial trades, interrogated, tested, monitored, and policed, trade their civil rights-at the very least, their right to privacy and to free speech-for a not quite subsistence wage. Looking for a Living Wage
People use up all of their energy on family, work and menial chores. Christianity Today
Most had to accept menial jobs. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Imagine trying to disarm a bomb while also having to deal with menial chores and talk on the phone at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
It seems feasible that simple robots designed to perform menial household tasks and non-complex low-paid jobs are likely to become common in our lifetimes.
Approach everything menial as something special and it need never be menial again.
The worst definition for a woman's occupation was the one she was likeliest to have: a menial servant.
We are obliged to refer to the hymenial layer in this place, though the beginner will scarcely understand the meaning of the term. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
Life for most was dull and without pleasantries, simply killing time with menial tasks.
'Halter-broke and bridle-wise,' the Chauffeur gloated, while she performed that dreadful, menial task. Page 7
Jeames's was a very delicate hand; Miss Flouncy admired it very much, and of course he did not defile it by menial service: he had in a young man who called him sir, and did all the coarse work; and Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty. Burlesques
The government has been criticised for forcing jobseekers to do menial unpaid work as work experience. Times, Sunday Times
Around half of those who use night buses are poorly paid workers who do essential but menial tasks. Times, Sunday Times
Regardless of whether she enjoyed the menial work of typing or selling or waitressing or clerking, she at least had freedom of movement to a degree.
In fact, a good number of people are considering them vital to a healthy post-industrial economy, as they take the lowest-paid and most menial jobs.
Cheng said they would often look for menial work in restaurants or labouring work around the city.
As fun as surfing the net or playing games can be, there are times when your PC gets used to help with more menial tasks, like applying for jobs, balancing your home accounts or keeping track of your insured valuables.
The lack of confidence and education forced some to work on menial tasks.
Regardless of whether she enjoyed the menial work of typing or selling or waitressing or clerking, she at least had freedom of movement to a degree.
When she came, Frank kept under the bedclothes until I had stripped her, and getting into bed with her performed the hymenial rites in due order. Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover
His only employment for the whole of his life was as a menial dogsbody in various Catholic Hospitals.
Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young primarily for menial pursuits such as domestics.
In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Novels by Eminent Hands
All he wanted was to sit alone and perform the menial, unthinking actions necessary to remain breathing.
As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations, they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.
The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work. The Brain Builders
As a menial, I was never told who these men were, never introduced to them, but I assumed they were the backers who had money at risk.
Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundreds and thousands of children are still languishing as menials in households, if not in hazardous industries.
I know that the Yale Law School doesn't just let anyone in (and the only language missing from the frequent quotations at Scott Horton's Harper's blog, as far as I can tell, is Hittite), but what are the chances that this law student being interviewed would a) know the word "catamenial" and b) use it in conversation? Jonathan Goodwin
Your teachers told you that failure would mean a life of misery and menial jobs. The Sun
It often happens, however, during the first critical epoch, which is isochronal with the technical educational period of a girl, that after a few occasions of catamenial hemorrhage, moderate perhaps but still hemorrhage, which are not heeded, the conservative force of Nature steps in, and saves the blood by arresting the function. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls
Others had been servants to Protestants; and the Protestants added, with bitter scorn, that it was fortunate for the country when this was the case; for that a menial who had cleaned the plate and rubbed down the horse of an English gentleman might pass for a civilised being, when compared with many of the native aristocracy whose lives had been spent in coshering or marauding. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Now he was disconsolate by reason of what had befallen him through the Sultan, who had entreated him harshly and had married his daughter by force to the lowest of his menials and he too a lump of a groom bunch-backed withal, and he said to himself, “I will slay this daughter of mine if of her own free will she have yielded her person to this acursed carle.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad. World Of Lather
Nor, in her benevolent desire to speed the car of Miss Jemima to its hymenial goal, was Mrs. Dale so cruel towards her male friend, Dr. Riccabocca, as she seemed to her husband. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
Starting by doing menial tasks teaches people respect for others and also earns their respect.
We're generally taught that housework is a menial, even demeaning task.
They believed that these life of menial work for granted, will not undermine the dignity.
The wise magician then ordered the young prince to spend the day lugging and stacking a pile of huge logs, menial labor unbefitting royalty.
He finds he is not mean-spirited enough to be a criminal, not tough enough to be a police officer, and too smart to subject himself to menial work.
Regardless of whether she enjoyed the menial work of typing or selling or waitressing or clerking, she at least had freedom of movement to a degree.
This crisis causes farmers to abandon their land and migrate toward urban areas to find menial work, or to illegally immigrate to more financially stable countries.
“Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared. A Country of Vast Designs
During the catamenial period, _i. e._, during one week out of every month, a woman should abandon intellectual or physical labor, either because she is already incapacitated for it, or because she will be so ultimately, if she does not take the precautionary rest. The Education of American Girls
Transcribing the information was menial work that did not require her level of expertise to do - it was likely this guy just wanted her to do the work for him, so he would not have to.
Food and shelter are the greatest problems, and many children have lost families or work at menial tasks to provide meager, subsistence-level support.
After being promised the joys of French life, she is kept inside the house, relegated to menial tasks and misunderstood and maltreated by the mother.
Most worked in Mediterranean Europe as household servants, hospital orderlies, garbage collectors, or in similar menial positions.
It's fairly menial work, such as washing dishes and cleaning floors.
The government knows older people will be forced out of decent jobs and forced into menial jobs like filling supermarket trolleys and opening doors for a pittance.
My brain must be shrinking the longer I spend here, because I seem to derive great happiness and satisfaction from menial tasks.
There’s economic sense in delegating menial tasks, but the consumer retail market has gone down the path of “just good enough”, setting up an ever-faster upgrade/replacement cycle — the flipside of the coin to the financial trickery described upthread — and if the need arose to return to a “built to last” model for consumer durables, would the skills and infrastructure still be there? Matthew Yglesias » What’s Not the Matter With American Manufacturing
Imagine trying to disarm a bomb while also having to deal with menial chores and talk on the phone at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
Yet although they did endure minor hardship and took menial jobs, it remained an artificial exercise. Times, Sunday Times
I feel that doing this menial work is killing a bit of my brain. Times, Sunday Times
Men, especially lusty, personable fellows, such as footmen and other menials should be, are obviously more powerful and more expensive than women. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.
By contrast, women from high-class families had maids to take care of most household chores and other menial work and thus worked far less than men or women in lower socioeconomic groups.
His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired.
He busied himself, sweeping the visitor's quarters, washing their clothes and helping with the most menial work in fields.
Reily's informants were unskilled labourers, employed in low-status, poorly paid, menial jobs.
I'd revert back to thinking about guys getting blown up, getting shot at," he says, instead of focusing on what he called his "mundane and menial" schoolwork. Vets go from combat to campus
He left the group at the height of their initial success, apparently renouncing worldly wealth and disappearing into the darkness of psychiatric hospitals and menial jobs. Times, Sunday Times
chapelle," seek for admission at the establishment of mother S---, who, after employing them for a time in various menial offices, and making them pluck off their eyebrows hair by hair, generally dismisses them on the plea of sluttishness; whereupon they return to their papas to eat the bread of the country, with the comfortable prospect of eating it still in the shape of a pension after their sires are dead. The Romany Rye
Owen lowered his gaze as they passed the two guards posted nearby and adopted the attitude of a menial servant busy running an errand.
A further group of craftsmen carried out the more menial tasks of glass cutting, firing, leading, and fixing of the windows.
It has a peculiarity in the fact that the hymenial cells, or the layer of mother cells, contained in the gills, change into a waxy mass, at length removable from the trama. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
None of them saw their work as menial but as a stepping stone. Times, Sunday Times
If Saturn lacks dignity it can indicate the lower regions of society: foolish people, down and outs, scavengers, beggars and employees who act as servants or menial staff to others.
They believed that these life of menial work for granted, will not undermine the dignity.
As young debs they were punished for their background; far from being indulged, they were often singled out for the most miserable and menial work.
These days, there is too much competition for menial work and too few opportunities.
Then there are those who come to do the menial jobs. Times, Sunday Times
They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
Many refugees who were professionals in their countries now find themselves performing menial tasks or manual labor.
The title refers to the time when an outside spy has to ‘come in from the cold’ and take a sedentary job as another spy's control or even some menial desk assignment until the mandatory age limit forces retirement.
She has tried for more menial roles without luck. Times, Sunday Times
In any event, it couldn't have helped me, and I continue to pay the rent with menial office work and a few freelance writing gigs.

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