93 examples of henchman in sentences

And he called the warden of his keep, Celin his henchman tried, And he pointed to Azarque, and, flushed with anger, cried "The sun upon that haughty shield myself will bid it set; It works some mischief upon me, like an evil amulet.

" Peter went through the blue velvet hangings, past the worthy henchman, who sat dozing in his chair, and made his way to the front door.

An' some day Andy's goin' to give Pet the time o' his life," the single faithful henchman kept saying.

Servant N. subject, liegeman^; servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache; official. retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court. attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel^, footboy^; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster^, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre

If Soma was a henchman of Leith's it was clear to me why the captain had shielded him the night he jerked the knife at me when I dropped the pin upon his woolly head, but why Toni had been put away was a mystery.

He left with an increased reputation, while Clerambault was supposed to have sheltered himself behind his devoted henchman.

You have no idea what a useful man he is, or what henchman's service he has done the Ministry in financial matters.

Meeker was probably at the foot of the stairs and covered the retreat of his henchman.

And so it was better he didn't, especially on that night when Mrs. M'Pherson had been so extraordinarily condescending to her henchman as to set before him a fine piece of pork, in recognition of his adherence to the resolution of leaving the flesh-pots of Egyptthe old Church.

" And Mrs. McPherson rose solemnly and locked the door upon herself and her henchman.

He dashed the weapon back into its sheath, and approaching the stranger, drew him towards the lamp, and said, "Ye are Trotter, who was my cousin's henchman, are ye not?" "The same," replied the messenger.

" "Wretch!" exclaimed the henchman Trotter, dashing forward, and raising his sword, "said ye that my master proved false at Flodden?" "Hold!"

Fiercely Wedderburn followed at his heels, with his naked sword uplifted, and ready to strike; immediately behind him rode Trotter, the henchman of the late earl, and another of Home's followers named Dickson.

BARCLAY OF URY, an Aberdeen laird, persecuted as a "Quaker coward" by a mob of former friends and dependents, offers no resistance and refuses defence from the sword of an ancient henchman.

The female villain of the piece and her craven henchman were foiled by the sturdy but wily trustee and the doughty Carolina colonel who, in headlong, aristocratic championship of those threatened with oppression against the moral sense of the community, charged upon the scene and counseled slaughter if necessary in defense of negroes who were none of his.

"I have made her Countess," Leicester said to his henchman Varney; "surely she might wait till it consisted with my pleasure that she should put on the coronet?

Marie Antoinette's henchman; the career of Jean, Baron de Batz in the French Revolution.

Nothing less than the immediate execution of the culprit by hanging, drawing, and quartering would satisfy the outraged feelings of our henchman.

abolished the droit de suite (henchman-law), as well as the use of the preparatory question or preliminary torture applied to defendants.

To this zealous collector, and to his liberal employer, Mr. Henchman, I am indebted for complete specimens of its fructification, which enable me to establish it as a genus distinct from any yet described.

" For another half-hour the pair waitedBertie the Badger like a dog in its kennel, with his head protruding into the hostile gallery, while his faithful henchman crouched close behind him.

"Bogle," said Angus M'Lachlan to his henchman, "I think we shall have to lighten this Wolseley valise of mine.

Finally, there were Coronado and his terrible henchman, Texas Smith, with their rifles and revolvers.

THIALFI, in the Norse mythology the god of manual labour, Thor's henchman and attendant.

'Tis too bad That TRADE should feed Fire, and his henchman seem glad To set wholesome Law at defiance.

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