The flunkey nature was nowhere completely subdued but in his stomach, and he still divided society into gentry, gentry's flunkeys, and the people who provided for them.
A clergyman without a flunkey was an anomaly, belonging to neither of these classes.
Baron Baton," said mademoiselle de la Mole, imitating a little the voice of the flunkey who had just announced him.
The flunkey was announcing the famous Barron Tolly, who had just become publicly conspicuous by reason of the elections.
I told him your ladyship was engaged with Captain Bethune, Mr Ridgeway and a French gentleman," the flunkey answered, astonished at the sensation his announcement had produced.
Nor me, neither," said the Resurrection Man, "till the flunkey started the subject.
I do, though," exclaimed the Resurrection Man; "and I mean to say that the flunkey is quite right.
D'you reckon I'll let the flunkey of a telephone camp interfere in my business?
The freckle-faced camp flunkey had interfered with his plans, snatched from him the bride he had chosen, brought upon him a humiliation that must be gall to his proud spirit whenever he thought of Bear Cat's primitive justice.
Back in a minute, Lon," the flunkey told him, and followed a cow trail that took him up the hill through the sage.
The flunkey wanted not to let me in, but I talked to him in such a way that he soon dropped his arms.
After I had sat there about an hour, a flunkey came in and said, "You can go home, Mr Ivanovitch; the director has already gone out!
Suddenly a flunkeyentered and announced a visitor--'Mr Teploff.
The flunkey who hovered near obeyed the order with quick servility and stood watching his master go by the broad porte-cochère, wondering why the order had not been given him for the car.
The flunkey in the hall was evidently expecting his arrival.
Villard himself brushed the flunkeyaside and rapped on the library door.
Of one thing he would have been certain--this flunkey could not have been made in the United States of America.
At the same moment a flunkey in chocolate and cream approached him.
The beautiful flunkey permitted himself a derisive gesture, such as one male may make to another, and sped the lift more quickly upwards.
As Henry was wafted aloft in the elevator, with the beautiful and innocuous flunkeyas travelling companion, he could not help contrasting that official with the terrible Powellian caretaker who haunted the Powellian stairs.
Jost, written whole columns of vapid twaddle about the 'Royal smile' and the 'Royal favour' till the outside public had sickened at every stroke of his flunkey pen?
I sent it some days ago, and got an acknowledgment from theflunkey who writes Majesty's letters.
The child is vain of his first knickerbockers, and the Court flunkey is vain of his knee-breeches.
In the midst of the proceedings a portly flunkey was observed carrying a huge envelope, with seals and trappings, on a salver.
The flunkey shook his head, and kept up a significant silence.
While enjoying my meditations one flunkey approached another, telling him to keep a keen eye on that fellow--meaning me.
The door was opened by a fat old flunkey with a red nose of an alarming aspect.
Not daring to disobey, the trembling flunkey led the way up one flight of stairs and pointed to a door, which I abruptly opened.
Geary used to say that I did the flunkey business better than any man he ever had at the Tabard: I have always been celebrated for my footmen.
I should not like to be a real flunkey all my life.
The door was opened; the flunkey stood stiff and upright, with a fixed look that stared straight before him, in the shadow of the hangings.
She gave him a gold coin; the flunkey disappeared.
The fact that armies have taken to "digging themselves in" has necessitated the use of some other weapon than the rifle.
How could one dream of trusting the judgment of a flunkeyabout a lady?
It was such deference as the British flunkey pays only to blue blood; for he has gradations of flunkeydom.
I was just entering Rasputin's room at the palace when a flunkey told me the news.
One night, while at the palace, I was informed by a flunkey that someone wished to speak with the monk on the public telephone, therefore I went to the instrument.
Then he withdrew, but not without having spoken a couple of murmured words of correction to the flunkey near the sideboard, who had omitted, no doubt, some point in the mysterious ritual of which he was an acolyte.
Not to enter the room thus indicated would have been possible enough, but the compelling influence of that vast flunkey made it impossible to Jones.
VOLES The flunkey who admitted him, having taken his hat, stick and gloves, presented him with a letter that had arrived by the midday post, also with a piece of information.
He gave his hat and cane and gloves to the flunkey who opened the door for him--He had obtained a latch-key from Church that morning but forgot to use it--and was crossing the hall when a strain of music brought him to a halt.
He was mistaken, however, for there stood a smart but pale-faced flunkey in a brown coat with gilt buttons.
The flunkey had a large parcel under his arm, which he appeared to be rather ashamed of.
Bob uttered a low, ominous growl, and walked round behind the flunkey on a tour of inspection.
The only comfort the flunkey had at that moment arose from the fact that his calves were stuffed with hay.
Besides, if there is not a living soul at hand who dares to tell you the truth without flattery, let your flunkey Stepan wash your magnificent countenance for you.
Before the old man's visit my position as a flunkey had a meaning; now it was absurd.
The king sent a flunkey after her and gave him orders to note the door where the pretty girl entered; but the swift girl ran much quicker than the king's servant, and he lost her.
The king's flunkey again was unable to find out her abode.
Of course, Cavendish wrote like the flunkey he was: 'The banquets were set forth with masks and mummeries in so gorgeous a sort and costly manner that it was a heaven to behold.
Jamie was in the habit of frequenting the house of an old lady in George Street, Edinburgh, where the flunkeyand the cook were very good to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flunkey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
