foot-page

• “When Sindbad the Porter had made an end of reciting his verses, he bore up his burden and was about to fare on, when there came forth to him from the gate a little foot-page, fair of face and shapely of shape and dainty of dress who caught him by the hand saying, “Come in and speak with my lord, for he calleth for thee.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Callum Beg, the sort of foot-page who used to attend his person, and who had now in charge to wait upon Waverley.”

  Waverley

• “Melliora retires to a convent, and her lover goes to travel in Italy, where his charms cause one lady to take poison for love of him, and another to follow him disguised as the little foot-page Fidelio.”

  The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood

• “He writes his letter swiftly, and forth his foot-page goes;”

  Song and Legend from the Middle Ages

• “I noticed, too, that the said Jem, whenever he came in my way, in house or garden, was the most capital "little foot-page" that ever invalid had; knowing intuitively all my needs, and serving me with an unfailing devotion, which quite surprised and puzzled me at the time.”

  John Halifax, Gentleman

• “And so that evening, while Waring was slowly driving his friends about the shaded roads under the glistening white pillars of the rows of officers 'quarters, chatting joyously with them and describing the objects so strange to their eyes, Mrs. Cram's "little foot-page" came to beg that they should alight a few minutes and take a cup of tea.”

  Waring's Peril

• “The ballad "Adieu, adieu my native shore," was suggested by "Lord Maxwell's Good-Night" in the "Border Minstrelsy," and introduces some romantic appurtenances: the harp, the falcon, and the little foot-page.”

  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

• “Waverley heard the following dialogue betwixt the subtile foot-page of Vich Ian Vohr and his landlord: ---”

  The Waverley

• “The next day, when his good old host appeared, Edward learned that his friend had departed with the dawn, leaving none of his followers except Callum Beg, the sort of foot-page who used to attend his person, and who had it now in charge to wait upon Waverley.”

  The Waverley

• “Dalgetty rode slowly through the town of Inverary, the outlaw attending upon him like a foot-page at his horse's shoulder.”

  A Legend of Montrose

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