I implicitly obeyed all words of command, and my factotum Selim Agha was indefatigable in his zeal.
Savage Africa, however, had as usual the better of the game, and showed his 'cuteness by planting my factotum in mud thigh-deep.
My factotum sat up half the night skinning, but it was his first coup d'essai.
Her powers of administratrix were untrammelled save in one respect: Octavius Buzzby was to remain in his position as factotum on the Champney estate and adviser for its interests.
How well she knew that the familiar name "Tavy" was the last turn of the thumbscrew for this factotum of the Champneys!
The face of Champ-au-Haut's factotum worked strangely before he made answer.
All went well, however, and in another half-hour we were again astonishing the factotum of the Oberriet station with a vision of the 'Gepaeck' which had puzzled him so immensely the day before.
Mr. Strahan lives in it quite alone with two servants, a factotumof a housekeeper and another factotum of a man-servant.
The name of the captain was Valentine Jernam, that of his factotum Joyce Harker.
The captain and his factotum retired to the two dingy little apartments which were to accommodate them for the night.
Marrineal did not answer, thereby giving his factotum uncomfortably to reflect that he really must not expect payment for information and the information also.
He sent a telegram to Mindle, his factotumon the ground.
He cautiously questioned the unofficial factotum of his employer.
For reply thefactotum gave him a succinct if distorted version of the romance in the desert.
Well," said she, "I think your new factotum fails decidedly in good manners, if nothing else.
But you can't be 'my Chinese servant, a factotum extraordinary?
Here lies Factotum Ned at last: Long as he breath'd the vital air, Nothing throughout all Europe pass'd In which he hadn't some small share.
Pinckney, not at all set back by this snub, turned and looked the factotum in the face.
Everything went smoothly when the factotum was not interfered with.
He's an uncommonly adroit, useful fellow, that factotum of Philip's.
In no way could the cause of the accident be so represented to Mr. Philip Debarry as to prevent him from viewing his hitherto unimpeachable factotum in a new and unfavorable light.
Susan Bonner's mistress hearing of Strong's arrival sent for him at this juncture, and the Chevalier went up to her ladyship not without hopes that he should find her more tractable than her factotum Mrs. Bonner.
Mr. Libby leaned against the post lately occupied by the factotum in his talk with Mrs. Maynard, and looked down at Grace as she bent over her work.
When the factotum had disappeared round the corner of the house, Mrs. Alger turned her head' aside, and glanced downward with an air of fatigue.
Marguerite had not seen her father in the long interval, and George had seen only the factotum of Lucas & Enwright.
The empty cubicle of the factotum looked strange enough.
When thefactotum came back into the pupils' room, George stood up straight and smoothed his trousers and gazed admiringly at his elegant bright socks.
The factotum in the cubicle was a young man of the finest military age, and there were two other good ones in the clerks' room, including a clerk just transferred from George's own office.
The result being that the factotum bore away a deadly mixture in triumph, because even with this surpassing love in his heart for the compounder, the boy could not swallow it.
Sometimes when he felt a little better the factotum brought out the medicine-chest and between them they made wonderful compounds, which the latter administered when his master had gone back to the blackbirds.
When the factotum sat in the room the blackbirds didn't; but then he breathed.
And as the factotum carefully brushed the dust of Hodinuggur from George's feet, the latter had forgotten everything in wonder as to who the 'mem' could possibly be.
The factotum having disappeared into the cook-room, George, in order to avoid calling, strolled thither, intent on further information.
The factotum was evidently determined he should play the right game.
The Huzoor is right,' declared thefactotum cheerfully.
The factotum lingered round with something he called beef-tea, and another thing he called barley-water.
In the middle of the room the factotum still lingered, benign and superior, one hand holding a hammer and tacks, the other a pair of striped silk socks, with the decorative effect of which he was evidently enamoured.
Mirabeau, then the factotum agent of the operations of the Palais Royal and its demagogues, greatly added to the support of this impression.
The factotum said something about this later in the evening.
Her companion was silent a few minutes until the carriage passed out from the Moscheloo grounds and had gone a few rods; then he tapped Mr. Falkirk's factotum on the shoulder.
Gotham did his duty in a more than usually taciturn fashion, and Mr. Falkirk's breakfast was at an end before the factotum unburdened his mind.
Perhaps it was this fact which caused my illustrious valet andfactotum to write some verses parodying the nursery rhyme of "Hush-a-bye baby, upon the tree top.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "factotum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
