It should be mentioned that much information on Hybridism in theLackey moths and other species will be found in Tutt's "British Lepidoptera," vol.
A guarded Lackey to run befor't, and pied liveries to come trashing after't.
Madeleine de Brinvilliers confessed afterwards that she had poisoned her father twenty-eight or thirty times with her own hands, and at other times by the hands of a lackey named Gascon, presented to her by Sainte-Croix.
Then came a smile, close neighbour to a groan, and the scorn of my old self which is the sad delirium wrought by moving time; but the lackey held the door for me and I passed out.
He leant forward and spoke across me to the lackey behind, saying, "Go on, go on.
Thou art but a lackey messenger, and therefore thou art not responsible for aught that thy master doth say, of insult though it be.
Do you suppose, now, I want my brother to see me a lackey abroad here?
I wish I had the effrontery to promise the lackey or official, announcing my enthronization, a handful of gold, as George did, when King Albert was dying.
I went to the door and told the lackey on duty to fetch his Royal Highness's carriage.
There--there--two ladies and a lackey are coming up the footpath.
A Lackey in plain black livery enters, and remains standing at the door.
In the courtyard a lackey took charge of Monsieur Bulmer, and he was conducted into the presence of the Marquis de Soyecourt.
Under the Stuarts England was a prostitute among the nations, lackey in turn to Spain and France and Italy; under the Guelph the Three-per-cents.
I can pardon you for calling me a lackey, mademoiselle, only upon condition that you permit me to be your lackey for the remainder of your jaunt.
The lackey coughed, choked, clutched his assassin by each shoulder; thus he stood with a bewildered face, shuddering visibly, every muscle twitching.
A lackey brought the cards and pipes, which we lit.
He rushed like a caged boar from one door to the other, shrieking for the lackey to open the door; but as before, a loud bark was the only response.
Only one thing I must say, the lackey Schultz is a prattling fool, and speaks very disrespectfully.
The door opened, and the lackey motioned to the two gentlemen to enter.
For it is a solid, heavy, handsome door, and must once have been in the habit of shutting with a sonorous bang behind a liveried lackey who had just seen his master and mistress off the grounds in a carriage and pair.
And every man they met went whither they pointed; and when they leapt on their horses, the very lackey that had held them dropped the bridles with hasty speed and ran into the palace, crying "Treason!
He would have shouted for joy had not the quiet dignity of the old lackey put a damper on his enthusiasm.
Chevalier," said the vicomte, "your lackey handed me the grey cloak first.
As the two visitors entered, the lackey lifted his head and placed a finger against his lips.
Yes, Monsieur," answered the old lackey from his corner.
And the marquis vanished beyond the landing, leaving the astonishedlackey staring at the vanishing point.
Meanwhile a lackey dressed in no particular livery entered the Hôtel of the Silver Candlestick and inquired for Monsieur Breton, lackey to Monsieur le Chevalier du Cévennes.
What shall a gentleman do when his lackey starts to quote Plutarch?
The prince's lackey spent a most uncomfortable hour that night when his Highness, son of Monsieur le Duc de Vendôme, retired.
He was roused by Viscount Charny's lackeypulling at his nightbell and, riding over to Boursonne, found that he had a couple of bullets in his side.
My Lord Viscount," said the lackey to his master, "do you not recognize that youth?
Quiet reigned in the corridors, and they saw hardly a lackey in the distance.
Every lackey who plants himself at the door, and expects me to pass him without noticing, without heeding him more than the door posts, fills me with embarrassment, that's the way I feel towards the people.
You might trust the cloth-white lackey and the stricken conscience of Francesco della Rocca Rossa to spread the news they had.
But what gave him most weight was that which had made the testimony of Francesco and the lackeyovershadow every event of a week full of events--the interposition of Madonna of the Peach-Tree.
Now send the lackey to me: I will go to bed as if I had no alteration of last night's arrangements in my mind.
And now I'm killed ignobly from behind, O'erpowered by a lackey with a log.
If that lackey lied, I shall either escape again or be content to die.
While I was at the tower, a lackey came to seek the lady's riding-whip.
Do you think that I would allow madame to go anywhere on foot unaccompanied by a lackey in livery?
The first act ended, the lackey brought back a note, and told her that everything was ready.
I never could understand the pleasure of acting the part of lackey to a dowager, and standing behind her chair, or bustling through the crowd for her carriage.
Ottilia's eyes gleamed with double brilliancy as the lackey opened them.
At last, on one dreadful day, they lost the lackey again, and this time there was no hope of recovery.
