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Examples
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Dancing on with a broken foot-boy is this guy impressive!
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CRA is responsible for the housing crisis see how easy it is to be a good foot-boy?
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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The foot-boy, who came to the door, told her that his master was at home, but not well.
Cecilia 2008
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A gardener is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy.
A Start in Life 2007
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Why, he furnished the house in the Edgware Road before mentioned, he ordered a handsome service of plate, he sported a phaeton and two ponies, he kept a couple of smart maids and a groom foot-boy — in fact, he mounted just such a neat unpretending gentleman-like establishment as becomes a respectable young couple on their outset in life.
Mens Wives 2006
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The brave mules which had so gallantly, under the lash of the running foot-boy beside them, galloped uphill with us the moonlight night of our coming, now felt their anxious way down in the dismal drizzle of that last morning, and brought us at last to the plaza before the station.
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Covent Garden church, with a starved foot-boy behind carrying her prayer-book.
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A mere lackey for Dr. John his valet, his foot-boy!
Villette 2003
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Yes! you have been cruising in company with a man who was once a foot-boy.
Armadale 2003
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Loose money left on a table, and not found there again; all the servants with characters to appeal to except the foot-boy, who had been rashly taken on trial.
Armadale 2003
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