638 examples of livery in sentences

"Dat's a no 'count livery notion, Miss 'Vadney, a coverin' up de cracks an' makin' de horse's hufs look better dan dey is.

a Livery, or the handsome tying a Cravat; for the great Men prefer none but their Foot-men and Valets.

I keep grisons, fellows out of livery, privately for nothing but to carry answers.' THE LUCKY CHANCE.

Livery and Seisin.

A very common error for the legal term 'livery of seisin' which signifies the delivery of property into the corporal possession of a person.

We learned that these works have saved two buildings from burning, and that the water is being used for sprinkling the streets, and being furnished to consumers at the following rates per annum: Private houses, $5; stores, $5; hotels, $10; livery stables, $15.

In answer to the summons of a young officer in a voluminous grey cloak the door was cautiously opened by a servant in the blue- and-silver livery of the municipality.

She knew that the surprised-looking white horse used in the Civil War comedy-drama entitled "His Southern Sweetheart" came from Joe Brink's livery stable in exchange for four passes, and that the faithful old negro servitor in the white cotton wig would save somebody from something before the afternoon was over.

In keeping with the furniture was the sole occupant of this stately chambera little negro boy in a livery of velvet picked out with silver tinsel, who stood as motionless as a small swart statuette against the door which faced that through which the king entered.

An old man, his daughter, and a young fellow about your age in some sort of livery.

I waited to hear no more, and running across the street to the livery stable ordered my team harnessed.

The prisoners were held at the livery stable, and as soon as I arrived I sent for the Deputy Sheriff and City Marshal, and on their arrival moved the prisoners to the bar room of the hotel.

The swans were still floating on the little lake, and the American poplar beside it, was in its full autumn livery.

As we approached, the tall bronze door was opened by a servant in the Bavarian livery, whose size harmonized so well with the giant proportions of the building, that, until I stood beside him and could mark the contrast, I did not notice his enormous frame.

Then I went to the sheriff and he told me that if they were scared to have me stay at their home, I could stay at the hotel and put my horse in the livery stable.

A dear friend was in distress; his horse and carriage had been seized for failure to pay the livery bill of their keeping; he could not collect any money of the debts due him, to pay his bill, and had nothing.

We go to it for sport, To gain a name, or purse, or please a sullen humour, When one has worn his fortune's livery threadbare, Or his spleen'd mistress frowns.

Go hang, starve, or drown!Rogues, to speak thus irreverently of the alphabetI shall live to see you glad to serve old Qto curl the wig of great Sadjust the dot of little istand behind the chair of X, Y, Zwear the livery of Et-caeteraand ride behind the sulky of And-by-itself-and!

Keats's father was a groom in a London livery-stable.

Leaving them together, I expeditiously proceeded to relieve the livery-stable horse, on which Harold had come, of the valise, saddle, and bridle with which it was encumbered, and then let it loose in one of the grassless paddocks near at hand.

While my heart beats, it shall wear livery My people's livery, whose yellow badge Marks them for Christian scorn.

While my heart beats, it shall wear livery My people's livery, whose yellow badge Marks them for Christian scorn.

Adriennefor it was shecame forward, taking off the cap pulled over her eyes and letting fall the great cloak with which she had enveloped herself in spite of the intense heat, and appearing in the outrider's livery which was to have been the Queen's disguise.

A decent serving-man, in a semi-doctorial livery of black cloth, with a large white collar laid far over his shoulders, and cuffs of the same upon his wrists, stood in the open doorway and smiled apologetically at the visitor.

For my part, I care not to take the livery without the service.

638 examples of  livery  in sentences