lacquey
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lacqueys
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It was curious to observe the others as they sate or stood around this semblance of a lacquey; counts, barons, and generals, all like him, hats in hand; not like him intending departure.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
See what a lacquey hath brought to our house!
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
The very lacquey at the door would wonder how far the audacity of the common herd can go.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
They ran after him might and main, Andrea leading, and the princess's lacquey next.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
"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 George Augustus Sala
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 C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde
The entry-door was wide open lacqueys in sumptuous liveries hurried in and out; there was a clatter of knives and forks, the popping of corks and shouts of laughter.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
To Ghent he went, and sought an audience, but was put off and baffled by lacqueys and pages.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
He glanced impatiently into the courtyard every time he heard the roll of a carriage, and the staircase lacqueys had strict injunctions to let him know as soon as they saw the Prince's carriage approaching.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
I can find neither reason nor principle in the mouths of those literary mountebanks hired by the police, who dance in the gutters for the amusement of lacqueys....
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
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