lacqueys

Other lacqueys led large stag-hounds, or wolf-dogs, of noble race, carefully muzzled to prevent accidents to passengers.

The Abbot 2008

One ante-room was filled with lacqueys, arrayed in brown and yellow, the colours of the family, who, ranged in double file, gazed in silence upon Captain Dalgetty as he passed betwixt their ranks.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

When, at Toeplitz, the Duke of Courland brought fourteen lacqueys, each with four bags of florins, and challenged our bank to play against the sealed bags, what did we ask?

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The lacqueys bore the dishes off the table, leaving their mistress sitting at it before the vacant chair.

The Virginians 2006

I mean no offence to you or any of your family; but lacqueys have ears as well as their masters, and they carry about all sorts of stories.

The Virginians 2006

Mr. Warrington found his aunt installed in handsome lodgings, with a guard of London lacqueys in her anteroom, and to follow her chair when she went abroad.

The Virginians 2006

Little light seems to be behind those lean, comfortless casements now, and hospitality to have passed away from those doors as much as the laced lacqueys and link-boys of old times, who used to put out their torches in the blank iron extinguishers that still flank the lamps over the steps.

Vanity Fair 2006

But he did not bare sword or shield; he only looked mechanically at the lacqueys in tawny and blue as they creaked about the room.

The Virginians 2006

At the foot of the stair-case, there was a crowd of lacqueys and chairmen, and in the midst of them stood

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

We then walked down stairs through a double range of lacqueys, and getting into the chaise, proceeded homewards.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004