225 examples of lackey in sentences

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"!

"Send Banks to me," he said crisply, to the lackey who appeared.

The Commissary of Police darted a furious glance at him: "Lackey, take care!"

The lackey was himself.

Like the lackey who betrays his masters.

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

"In short, all the Franks who are fixtures, and most of the Englishmen, Germans, Danes, etc., of passage, came over by degrees to their opinion, on much the same grounds that a Turk in England would condemn the nation by wholesale, because he was wronged by his lackey and overcharged by his washerwoman.

It was composed, as regarded its core, of the capable legions of Ariminum, and, by their side, of militia called out, most of whom were likewise accustomed to service; and, far from being discouraged by the last defeats, it was indignant at the but little honourable task which its general, "Hannibal's lackey," assigned to it, and it demanded with a loud voice to be led against the enemy.

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

As my purse grew lighter my conscience became tenderer, and at length I humbly accepted the position of lackey in the house of a rich old nobleman, Don Vincent de Guzman.

The French termination que, which is commonly retained in pique, antique, critique, opaque, oblique, burlesque, and grotesque, is equivalent to k; hence we write packet, lackey, checker, risk, mask, and mosk, rather than paquet, laquey, chequer, risque, masque, and mosque.

These seven found a long table there littered with pens and parchment; to the rear of it, with a lackey behind him, sat the Marquess of Hastings, meditative over a cup of Bordeaux.

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.

A lackey carrying a bag-pipe rushed into the room and out again without noticing its occupant.

A lackey entered trepidated.

He tore the letter from the lackey's hands and sat upon the chair drawing the candle to his convenience and read aloud: "'Cedric: When we parted twenty odd years ago 'twas in anger.

She ordered her mistress' breakfast for eleven o'clock, and locking the door upon the retreating lackey, settled herself in the chair again and fell asleep.

" A lackey came to conduct Mistress Katherine below.

A Lackey in the King's service.

Your Majesty's lackey?

Miserable lackey!

[A lackey comes in, announces.] LACKEY.

[The lackey goes out and the PRINCE comes in.] PRINCE (aside).

A LACKEY (coming in).

[The lackey goes out.]

225 examples of  lackey  in sentences