Besides, he had never finished his apprenticeship; he was only fit for running errands, in which capacity he was willing to accept a post in a large shop.

The point is, that particular slave takes care not to run errands nowadays without informing me.

I run errands very nicely.

When not engaged in running errands or fussing over his postage-stamp album, Willie spent most of his time teasing old Scraggs, the scrivener, an unsuccessful teetotaler.

When Mrs. Higgman was not running errands for the women passengers, she was working at her perpetual laundering.

II.The Story Runs Backward Before I came to live here (began Mrs. Dean), I was almost always at Wuthering Heights, because my mother nursed Mr. Hindley Earnshaw, that was Hareton's father, and I used to run errands and play with the children.

demandadera, f., convent servant, woman who attends at the door of a convent to run errands. demás, further, besides; los , the others, the rest; por lo , for the rest, moreover, besides.

" Young James, a lad of less than eight years old, worked for Mr. Walker: "tended the stock, took the horses to water, and ran errands for the family, and in return for such services the good lady, finding him an intelligent, active youth, was pleased to teach him his alphabet and reading.

It was Ignacio, the little Indian who cared for her horse, ran errands, and fought garden bugs for herIgnacio, the note-bearer.

Said Oline: "I'd no time to go running errands, and that's the truth;

"The steward's department must attend to the passengers, for we are short-handed on deck, and I can't have the men running errands.

"I don't run errands for anyone save it be for the fairies.

Capable and efficient, she found no difficulty in getting work for herself and older children, who were able to add their quota to the support of the family by running errands, doing odd jobs for the neighbors and helping their mother between school hours.

Mother says it would be just the thing for you, and so it would; and you'd have her to wait upon you both, and me to run errands.

He was also the house-servant and personal attendant of the old master, running errands for him and transacting ordinary business, like Pietro Urbano and Stefano in former years.

Since the Civil War he has made extra money for his support during depression times by doing odd jobs of whitewashing, serving as a porter or janitor, cutting wood, hauling and running errands, also serving as a teamster, picking berries and working as a laborer.

It was therefore disconcerting when the young Viscomte de Chose and a certain Marquis de Machin found that their knowledge of English was used for the purpose of buying a packet of cigarettes for a lieutenant who knew no French, and of running errands for British officers who accepted such services as a matter of course.

Being a small child, all that was asked of me was to run errands and amuse the little white children.

Bob brought us milk and eggs and our mail, and ran errands generally.

He had shovelled, an' dug, an' lifted, an' run errands until his strength was low an' the weight of his hand a burden.

So I took him by the hand and led him to headquarters for whippings, the bench in the shipping department, where a pretty scrappy lot of boys were employed to run errands, and told the boss to take him on.

He developed a sudden objection to running errands for his mother, and especially to doing anything that involved the carrying of bags or bottles or baskets through the streets.

With the exception of carrying water to the laborers and running errands, he had little to do.

They had to be content with chopping wood, running errands, cleaning up the plantation, and similar tasks.

They had saved almost fifty dollars, which had been earned running errands and working as water-boys whenever an "extra" gang had been sent from the division point to assist their father's crew in putting in a new culvert, building a new switch or doing other heavy work requiring more man-power then the reservation crew could supply.