lacquey
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The lacquey of Don Gaspar, called Antonio;—can you assist me, as I am in haste?
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
At this moment the door opened, and the lacquey announced: "Monsieur le Comte de Valdemar; Ma'm'selle la Comtesse de Valdemar."
From The World Masters by Griffith, George Chetwynd
"I'll be no man's lacquey; I'm a gentleman."
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
"Really!" she said, "one might think that the Vicomte de Talizac was strong enough to conquer a lacquey!"
From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Lermina, Jules
Mine is a paltry secret of a poor lacquey, but his is one which will obtain a price, and it is well to be first in the market.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
It was showing scant civility to leave them in the hall, like lacqueys.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
We lacqueys are like sporting dogs; we follow up the game, and when they stop their running, make a dead point, until our masters bag them for themselves.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
Courtiers and lacqueys were running about and jostling each other in confusion and alarm, when colonel Brenner with Arwed mounted the broad stone steps of the royal palace upon the Ritterholm.
From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)
I can neither find reason nor honour in the mouths of those literary mountebanks in the hire of the Police, who dance in the kennels for the amusement of lacqueys.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William
Of pretty dark-eyed roguish Toinon, neither the lacqueys, nor pages, nor hairdressers could make anything.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
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