"Lackey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... won't want it again," replied the lackey, looking knowingly at his master. He hated George too, whose insolence towards him was ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the lackey who had but lately returned from Guildford, whilst sitting over the kitchen fire with his cup of mead, had complained of sudden and violent pains, had vomited and fallen down upon the floor in a fit; whereat every person present had fled in wild dismay, perfectly certain ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
... kills a rather harmless coxcomb of a marquis who rebukes him for making this tapage; and such a still greater brute (for in the duel he had himself been wounded) that he throws out of the window an unfortunate lackey who gets in his way at a party where Octave has, as usual, lost his temper. Finally, he is a combination of prig, sneak, cad, brute, and fool when (having picked up and read a forged letter which is not addressed ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... continued the postilion, 'I was sent, under the guidance of a lackey of the place, with a letter, which the priest, when he left, had given us for a friend of his in the Eternal City. We went to a large house, and on ringing were admitted by a porter into a cloister, where I saw some ill-looking, shabby young fellows walking about, ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... together during the evening. What is to be the end of this? To-morrow I go to see Miss Courtland, and I have made up my mind to confess everything. Perhaps she will think no worse of me. The queen still loved Ruy Blas after she found he was a lackey. ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 • Various
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