Mistress Holliday said, furiously, "I have a mind to call the lackeys in and bid them beat you.
The lackeys at Rupert's order discharged their pistols after them; but a moment later the sound of four horses making off at full gallop, showed that they had escaped.
Hugh accompanied him thus far and stopped at the door, outside which, in the courtyard and in the hall, were standing many lackeys who had attended their masters.
Sometimes, where the road was peculiarly bad, the lackeys would get down, light torches at the lanterns that hung below the box, and show the way until the road improved.
The earl had even declined the offer to leave one or both of the lackeys behind.
Colonel Holliday now hurried out into the garden, just as Sir William Brownlow, accompanied by his son's friend, rushed out of the house, followed by some lackeys with scared faces.
The great door opened as they approached, and four lackeys with torches came out.
Colonel Holliday, finding that Rupert was fairly off, bade the lackeys get down, and follow him at a run with their pistols, and urged the coachman to drive on with all possible speed.
But these had had enough of it; and as the lackeys came running up, they turned, and rushed away into the darkness.
You've chosen Even my lackeys from among your friends.
Forgive me, but at Dresden, you remember, You all appeared like lackeysof my father.
Numerous carriages stood at the door, several lackeys in rich liveries were sitting in the ante-chamber.
Walking up to the other figure, he signed to one of the lackeys to bring a torch.
So the Princess Maria told Countess Brockdorff she could not move until the ladies of her Court arrived from the station, and the House Marshal was warned that Her Highness's lackeys must not be allowed in the palace canteen.
And as many lackeys in blue and silver as visitors.
Two lackeys at the door, more at the bottom of the stairs, still more on the first landing--men-servants seem to be the only commodity lavishly provided at the Berlin Court.
His valet (Father Bauer) was singularly well supplied with money, and royal lackeys (confound them!
His lackeys climbed behind his coach, and awoke the dimly lighted streets with the glare of their torches, as the heavy vehicle bore him homeward from the supper and the card-table.
But this much I know from my tame sweetheart, that when he passed under the palace gate and saw the life guards in silver, and mounted the staircase and saw the lackeys in gold, he was not in the least embarrassed.
You can't possibly get into the palace, for you are barefooted, and the guards in silver and the lackeys in gold would not allow it.
A squad of lackeys that showed you into a suite of salons.
The lackeys of history might therefore have deodorised him.
Besides the captain and his lady, there was a great and notable assemblage of company: my lady of Chelsea having sent her lackeys and liveries to aid the modest attendance at Kensington.
Two lackeys waited for him knowing that he would come to undress.
Both ministers waited till the lackeys were dismissed, when Sulkowski whispered something to the King, smiled and pointed to Bruehl.
They dared not shut the doors in his face, but even the lackeys would not make way for him.
They entered the room where the lackeys were in readiness to undress the King and to give him his much-preferred robe de chambre.
Four lackeys here waited for his Excellency, the fifth was Henniche standing at the door; his face was very sour.
Then thelackeys were obliged to wake him up and the councillor would open his eyes, and murmur, 'Wait a minute!
The royal carriages, preceded by the runners, with lackeys in front and rear, cavaliers on horseback, and beautiful ladies, arrived one after another.
During the next few days, immediately the new officials were appointed, Bruehl's brother became the Grand Marshal of the court, the pages and lackeys whom they suspected of having any relations with Sulkowski, were changed.
The door opened, and twolackeys in court livery--yellow tail coats with blue facings--brought out a large basket covered with a white cloth.
Although no other guests were expected, on both sides of the stairs up to the first floor stood numerous lackeys wearing magnificent scarlet livery; on the first floor stood butlers and the minister's pages.
He said, grinning: "Pious Theodoret has sworn a truce of twenty-four hours, and in consequence might not send any of his own lackeys after us.
For, by this, those lackeys will have slain Messire de la Forêt or else they will have taken Messire de la Forêt to King Theodoret, who will piously make an end of this handsome idiot.
I say in the coach, for five or six lackeys behind it were already crying "Jesu Maria" and quaking with fear.
At the same instant, the Comte do Brion and all the lackeys were upon their knees very devoutly singing the Litany of the Virgin Mary.
These Parisian lackeys are intolerable; their pretensions far outstrip our modest Austrian means.
Were the late Cardinal Richelieu alive he would tell you a certain story of the Bastion Saint Gervais, which we four, with our four lackeys and twelve dead men, held out against a whole army.
We are reluctant to leave for a single moment men whom our lackeys know to be millionaires.
Mousqueton made, with a low whistling sound, the sign of alarm well known to the lackeys in the days of their youth, resumed his place at the table and made a sign to Blaisois to follow his example.
The lackeys were sent to their several posts, except that Grimaud lay on a truss of straw across the doorway.
Olivain had ready the horses of the young men, and the lackeys of the Count de Guiche guarded carefully between them the Spanish prisoner, mounted on a pony which had been bought for his use.
The lackeys had been ordered to saddle eight horses and to wait, keeping together and without dismounting, at the corner of a street about twenty steps from the house where the king was lodged.
When he had crossed the courtyard, and had arrived at the entrance of the inner apartments, he was accosted by a couple of lackeys covered with gold lace, and with powdered hair.
He obtained admittance as before, and pressed forward till he was arrested by the supercilious lackeysin gold-lace livery.
I am willing to fight you with swords, but I am not going to fight yourlackeys with clubs.
Then I lost my head and forgot his rank and my position, and the next moment I was kicked into the street by his lackeys without salary, without anything.
At last one of thelackeys showed him his room, and, like a good comrade, pointed out to him the lamps of a tavern, which for his leisure hours would be particularly agreeable.
The foresters and lackeys served the different courses.
As, instead of the steward and lackeys by whom she was received, there was now only a single servant, in a dark coat, to assist Gabriel, so everything else that surrounded Ilse appeared now in the modest colors of common earthly life.
The frightened lackeys readily jumped down, and held the horses.
When the physician hastened to her the next morning, he found the lackeys and maidservants collected in close conclave before her door.
In the evening the lackeys ran hurriedly through the corridor, and were frightened at the echo of their own steps, and the Court ladies would not leave their rooms without escort.
The guests followed, and a host of lackeys offered refreshments.
Are you quite sure you do not want some of my lackeys to accompany you?
She was uncertain whether he was one of the mob, returned alone for plunder, or one of the lackeys of her household who had got the better of his terror and returned to the chateau.
Coaches and 6 Horses belonging to the Chamberlains and Ministers, each preceded by Lackeys and Running-Footmen, and surrounded by Heydukes, with 2 Pages in Front.
Emancipation would have been carried out, slavery destroyed, the Union restored, rebels crushed, and the French murderers and imperial lackeys would cut very respectful capers to please a great people.
Bonapartists, lickspittles, lackeys and incarnations of all imaginary corruptions compose that upper crust.
I have not the slightest doubt that the Decembriseur is full of treachery towards the North, and that his Imperialist lackeysblow brimstone against the Northern principles.
The lackeys and chamber-maids, who are always the most difficult people to please, freely admitted they had nothing whatever against the bird; while the people of the town could think of nothing else but this new wonder of the palace.
The big lackeys whispered among themselves, looking with a haughty air upon the base intruder.
The villagers were awe-struck when the mighty lord, in his emblazoned coach, with a crowd of glittering lackeys around, came up to the cottage of Parker Clare, the pauper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lackeys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
