She put on her chignon, her curls, her breast elevator, her bustle, her high-heeled shoes, a little rouge, a little whiting and a bit of court-plaster, and sallied forth, down the dumb-waiter to the cellar, and thence, through the ash-hole, to the street.

And now do just look at that merry little Chinese waiter holding an umbrella, big enough for a bed-tester, over the head of that pretty insipid half-Madona-ish chit of a lady in that very blue summer-house.

"When we was at the Astor House, she locked up my clothes in her room, 'cause New York was such a dreadful wicked place, she was 'fraid they'd be stole; and she never let me out o' her sight, for fear the colored waiters in the hotel would be impudent to me.

While he was seated there, there was a loud tramping of horses, and a party of young Russian generalspersons of the highest society, of weight and importancearrived, and with much noise and ostentation summoned the obsequious waiters to attend to their wants.

"Who's going to be the cler-gy-man?" The head of Jumbo, rotund negro waiter at the Tallyho Club for many years, appeared rashly through a half-opened pantry door.

For he was not a pushing man, but one of those patient waiters on opportunity who appear at length quietly at the top, and look down with thoughtful eyes at those who struggle below.

I tried to pick out individual buildings from this city-like watering-place, but, beyond discovering the position of the Spa and one or two of the mightier hotels, I could see very little, and instead fell to wondering how many landladies and how many foreign waiters the long lines of gray roofs represented.

Behind the zinc an elderly and trusted waiter was nodding.

The best Man that I know of for heightening the Revel-Gayety of a Company, is Estcourt, whose Jovial Humour diffuses itself from the highest Person at an Entertainment to the meanest Waiter.

Never mind the change, sir!Curse the change!" says the Colonel, facing the amazed waiter.

Every door was closed except the door of the service-room, in which a sleepy waiter lay upon a couch and dreamed of his Fatherland.

I was shown into the best sitting-room, preceded by a smart waiter in a white neckcloth.

Every boy of them was willing to let Ford do his best with that part of the dinner; and he was hard at work deciding what soup and fish he had better pick out, when the tall waiter who had bustled forward to receive the coming "order," bent over his shoulder, and pointed to Dick Lee, inquiring, "Beg pardon, sah!

The Reluctant waiter.

But Love has made her constantly in her Mistress's Chamber, where the young Lady gratifies a secret Passion of her own, by making Betty talk of James; and James is become a constant Waiter near his Master's Apartment, in reading, as well as he can, Romances.

In addition to the customary yeomen-waiters, there were a host of serving-men in rich and varied liveries, but these attended exclusively on their lords at the raised table, behind the traverse.

He is esquire to a knight-errant, donzel to the damsels, and gentleman usher daily waiter on the ladies, that rubs out his time in making legs and love to them.

The food was good, but the service impossible, as there were some forty men, mostly officers, very hungry, and only one decrepit waiter to do the work.

Deft Chinese waiters slipped silently from guest to guest with bird's-nest soup, guy soo main, mon goo guy pan, shark's fin and lung har made of shreds of lobster, water chestnuts, rice and the succulent shoots of the young bamboo, while three musicians in a corner sang through their nose a syncopated dirge.

How Müller tormented that diplomatic waiter!

"I will return for my change another evening," he said to the dumbfounded waiter.

The boy was a most efficient waiter, discerning one's desires before they were expressed.

The happy youth appeared radiant with joy, followed by two Chinese, without camisas, who carried on enormous waiters tureens that gave out an appetizing odor.

We ate it all by ourselves in the big empty restaurant, with half a dozen fascinated waiters eyeing us from the end of the room.

She disliked the large tables laid for four; and when he could, her favourite waiter kept a place for Mrs. May at a small table for two persons.