To their astonishment, they found the footmen holding open the great front doors, while three stalwart young men entered.
The horsemen of Nomentum Spurred hard out of the fray, The footmen of Velitrae Threw shield and spear away.
The Sight and Noise of Joy made him ready to sink at the Door; and sending his Footmen to learn the Cause of this Triumph, the Pages that waited told him, That Count Vernole was this Night married to Monsieur De Pais’s Daughter.
Rinaldo, wholly impatient, came betimes to the Corner of the dead Wall, where he was appointed to stand, having ordered his Footmen and Coach to come to him as soon it was dark.
This Noise quickly alarm’d her Lover; and all the Coachmen and Footmen immediately ran, some one Way, and some another.
Quality, for see he has two Footmen that follow him, in just such Liveries, and so rich as those of our Neighbour Monsieur Bellyaurd.
It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged things behind for I don't know how many footmen to hold on by, and a harrow below them, to prevent amateur footmen from yielding to the temptation.
Even the very coachmen and footmen in the Park looked enervated, as the long lines of carriages passed in wearisome procession.
Beth wondered if he kept his caution up before the footmen in the hall, or if he made an undignified bolt of it the moment he was out of sight of society.
A double row of gaudy footmen receive you in the blazing hall, and make your name echo up the stairs, as you ascend, in a voice of thunder.
This was warmly protested against by the footmen and the police, and a regular set-to was the consequence.
The coachmen and footmen gaze impassively before them, ignoring the crowd to the best of their ability.
Another carriage passes, the coachman and footmen of which are undecorated.
And one of the footmen suddenly turned aside and gave a singular little cough behind his hand.
The Earl was not a very polite person as a rule, and many a time the huge footmen about him quaked inside their imposing liveries.
I was still near Surgham and believed that I could discern the Khalifa himself in the centre of a jostling, excited throng of footmen and horsemen.
Still the enemy pressed on, their footmen reaching to within 200 yards of Macdonald's line.
Partly encouraged by the self-sacrificing devotion of the horsemen, the footmen followed.
A hot pursuit was instituted and five of the dervish footmenwere caught.
The dervishes struck their camp instantly, and mounted men and footmenran to the hills, their flight quickened by the gunboats' Maxims.
There was no doubt about what the gunners were doing, for horses and riders and footmen were bowled over or sank to the ground as shrapnel and common shell struck their ranks.
That evening at sunset, a few Baggara horsemen and footmen were seen upon the nearest hills watching the Sirdar's camp.
This night late coming in my coach, coming up Ludgate Hill, I saw two gallants and their footmen taking a pretty wench, which I have much eyed, lately set up shop upon the hill, a seller of riband and gloves.
Here was Sir Samuel Morland and his lady very fine, with two footmen in new liverys (the church taking much notice of them), and going into their coach after sermon with great gazeing.
And 'tis my real Opinion, that if God had not interpos'd, Footmen would at length have been the Masters, and the Masters the Footmen.
His Excellency was preceded by twelve running Footmen in his Livery, and he walked in the Middle of a Couple of Files of the hundred Switzers of the Pope's Guard.
They have a great Number of Footmen indeed, some no less than two dozen; but they live very meanly, so that not one of them keeps an open Table, or has any thing to treat with but Ice, and at most a Dish of Chocolate.
Tancred mounted his footmenas swiftly as they could capture horses, and hunted the fleeing Moslems over plain and mountain.
But the Christian footmen around it were a living wall, and not a dervish who put out his hands to grasp the lance turned back alive.
De St. Julien, bid the varlets and footmen place the baggage wagons round the camp, to make what barricade they may.
Farther on a brown line was winding--small as of creeping ants; but Longsword knew he beheld footmen on the march, and their numbers were thousands.
The footmen throw gaily dressed loaded darts, and stick them in his neck, when the dart explodes with a loud report.
This maddens him; he shakes his head, and rushes at a horse, tearing out his entrails and raising him on his horns; the footmen fool him with the red cloaks and loaded darts.
Two days afterwards, four footmen in the employ of Lords Melbourne, Lansdowne, Normanby and Tankerville appeared to answer the summonses.
All at once, in one of the great mirrors in the hall door, she saw the reflection of the two footmen who stood there motionless, near the oak table in the hall.
She notices one of those large umbrellas which the footmen use on the box in wet weather; she seizes it; she is ready; but when she is ready to go, she sees that the hall-door is fastened by a great iron bar.
The splendid doors were opened noiselessly by gorgeous footmen who looked like the prize–winners at a chrysanthemum show.
The tall footmen came but seldom now with notes to the sweet Laura; the pony-carriage was but rarely dispatched to Fairoaks to be at the orders of the ladies there.
The large footmenwere perpetually walking with little rose-colored-pink notes to Fairoaks; where there was a pretty housemaid in the kitchen, who might possibly tempt those gentlemen to so humble a place.
It was then that the large footmen were too much employed at Clavering Park to be able to bring messages, or dally over the cup of small beer with the poor little maids at Fairoaks.
But even while he spoke, the footmen hauled him along, so that when Joe eventually wriggled from under the car the three were close against the great gates.
Otherwise his Majesty only uses a chair, with six footmen walking before, and six yeomen of the guard at the sides of the sedan.
We all rose, of course, upon his entrance, and the two gentlemen placed themselves behind their chairs, while the footmen left the room.
There were four footmen behind, and a beautiful lady inside; I held out my hand to her for charity.
She had already ordered one of her footmen to follow M.
I will do my best to move their hearts, and if they will but agree together to take the cross, they would make a goodly band of footmen to accompany the earl.
Close behind these in a mass pressed the British footmen with bill and pike, the enemy giving way foot by foot before their steady discipline.
Dividing as the king with his knights charged them, they suffered these to pass through with but slight resistance, and then closed in upon their track, while another and still more numerous body fell upon the footmen and their guard.
The task was now, however, far more difficult; for the footmen would be unable to keep up with the rapid charge of the knights, and it was necessary not only to clear the way, but to keep it open for their exit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
