lacquey
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lacqueys
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She married him, and treated him like a lacquey.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
She went out and ordered her lacquey, who was the only determined one of her suite, to make himself master of Holst’s chariot and arquebuses.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
It is better to be a lord than a lacquey to a lord!
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
On either side of Mr. Darrel's horse marched a lacquey bearing a flambeau, and the marshal's page was in attendance with his master's cloak.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
"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
Neither on the stairs nor in the corridors did I meet with one of your lacqueys.
From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
The English aristocracy are distinguished by the number, the canes, and the wigs of their lacqueys.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
At the same moment two lacqueys held aside the heavy curtains which hung on the inside of the doorway, and the latest arrivals entered.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
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
The king took the prince's arm and walked through the corridor, passing various bowing lacqueys in their scarlet livery, to the principal entrance.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
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