The ragged, half-clad negroes of the sea-beacha parson-butler of sublimated respectability, a liveried lackey of rainbow and gold!

The next day came a royal lackey with a big red book and a letter for Clement, and in the letter it said that the book was from the King.

The two prim little evergreens which grew one on each side of the door-step waited at respectful attention like heavily powdered festal lackeys.

Thereafter the florid young Count of Poictesme rode east, on a tall dappled horse, and a retinue of six lackeys in silver and black liveries came cantering after him, and the two foremost lackeys carried in knapsacks, marked with a gold coronet, the images which Dom Manuel had made.

Six golden lackeys illumine the doorway: Sure, one would think, by the glances they throw, That we were fresh from the mountains of Norway, And had forgotten to shake off the snow!

Underneath an ancient portal, soon I passed into the city; Entered San Pietro's Square, now thronged with upward crowding forms; Past the Cardinals' gilded coaches, and the gorgeous scarlet lackeys, And the flashing files of soldiers, and black priests in gloomy swarms.

Two of the menone of them had a most villainous countenanceCalvert had never seen before, but the third one he discovered, to his intense surprise, was BertrandBertrand, whose honest lackey's face now wore a curious and sinister look of power and importance.

In an angle of the courtyard two idle lackeys in scarlet liveries and powdered hair played with a little terrier.

The lithe lackey sprang upon Christopher and drove the knife, it appeared, to the hilt, and with a gurgling cry the lad fell.

Miserable lackey!

In March, 1781, the Archbishop, to whom Mozart played the part of musical lackey, summoned him to the same city.

"Some day when you declare yourselves independent," he said somewhat abstractedly to the native lackey who opened the carriage-door for him, "remember that there were not lacking in Spain hearts that beat for you and struggled for your rights!" "Where, sir?" asked the lackey, who had understood nothing of this and was inquiring whither they should go.

Underneath an ancient portal, soon I passed into the city; Entered San Pietro's Square, now thronged with upward crowding forms; Past the Cardinals' gilded coaches, and the gorgeous scarlet lackeys, And the flashing files of soldiers, and black priests in gloomy swarms.

He then turned to Saint Georges, a more subservient lackey.

And again, admitting all this, we are finally obliged by Mr. Hunter's document to concede that the stalworth archer (who, according to the ballad, maintained himself two-and-twenty years in the wood) was worn out by his duties as "proud porter" in less than two years, and was discharged a superannuated lackey, with five shillings in his pocket, "poar cas qil ne poait pluis travailler"!

I must tell you that when they had ended, Hastings gathered the letters into a heap, and without glancing at the superscriptures, handed all these letters to the attendant lackey.

Ah, but this patience is a page of ruth, A tired lackey to our wand'ring youth!

Fortunately for the Queen-mother, one of her own adherents was less dilatory; and having ascertained that the confidential lackey of Rucellaï had arrived in Paris, he caused him to be found, and took possession of the letters before they could be transferred to the hands of her enemy.