Some person of consequence he evidently was, for two lacqueys stood near him--one holding his cloak, another his sword and gloves.
The maids flew from saucepan to stewpan, the boys staggered under piles of plates; the dressers and servers were always in and out, carrying dishes to the lacqueys of the table or coming back for more.
As Wilding afterwards told Trenchard, they reminded him of a parcel of saucy lacqueys who take liberties with an upstart master for whom they are wanting in respect.
Nothing of the air of the show-place is breathed there; no rules, no conditions, no watchful, dogging lacqueys or sentinels make the visitor uncomfortable.
In this instance the beauty of the Princess Alexandra had been so noisily trumpeted by literary lacqueys already, that one's natural instinct was to feel disappointed, and to say so, when the Princess herself came in sight.
Tho' Lacqueys are not commonly the Subjects of Conversation, yet I think that those of Paris deserve some Notice.
The Lacqueysof these two Cardinals happening to be at a certain Place together, they had a Dispute about their Master's Pre-eminency.
This Maggot of keeping so many Lacqueys has infected even the Citizens; they who are in such mean Circumstances, that they cannot afford to maintain them the whole Year round, covenant with them only for Sundays and Saints Days.
This enlarging of London makes it filled with lacqueysand pages.
If you will not see the lad, hussy, lock your door and close your shutters, after giving orders to your lacqueys to admit him not.
So soon as he had disappeared, there came another ripple of laughter from the other room, and the lacqueys lounging in the hall laughed, too.
Then give your lacqueys orders not to admit him, and all will be well.
But he did not bare sword or shield; he only looked mechanically at the lacqueys in tawny and blue as they creaked about the room.
Mr. Warrington found his aunt installed in handsome lodgings, with a guard of London lacqueys in her anteroom, and to follow her chair when she went abroad.
The lacqueys bore the dishes off the table, leaving their mistress sitting at it before the vacant chair.
By the side of his patronesses, their ladyships' lacqueyswalking behind them with their great gilt prayer-books, Mr. Sampson marched from breakfast to church.
I mean no offence to you or any of your family; but lacqueys have ears as well as their masters, and they carry about all sorts of stories.
The Queen's lacqueys were in rich yellow liveries; the Prince's lacqueys in blue liveries, near twenty, walking by them.
With Whitelocke was the Resident and Treasurer; the rest in the other coaches, the pages and lacqueys riding and walking by.
Being come into the road, and his pages and lacqueys in the waggons, he made what haste he could in his journey with hired horses, and so much company.
Whitelocke went out with them in his usual equipage, his gentlemen walking before the coach, his pages and lacqueys by it, all bareheaded, and with their swords.
And you may be sure that it was no peasant's hut, with its glazed windows and great mirrors and statues and lacqueys and brass door handles!
The lacqueys carried torches, and the page his master's cloak.
Each gentleman had a page and two lacqueys in livery waiting by his horse's side.
Into the midst of this assembly the lacqueys conveyed Madame in her chair, and set her down within three paces of the General!
At once, both in the person of the commissionaire and in the persons of the footmen, there sprang to life the same reverence as had arisen in the lacqueys of the hotel.
The latter gentleman was called by the lacqueys "Monsieur le Comte," and Mlle.
With some other lacqueyshe had got into a quarrel with a man who had been a father to Christian, and who had brought him up from his youth and had taken the utmost care of him.
The other lacqueys ran away, but Christian was seized.
On the upper terrace a dozen lacqueys with wax lights hastened out to receive the travellers.
For answer, he had me beaten by his lacqueys and flung out of his house.
You dressed me in it, like you put yourlacqueys in livery, through vanity.
When she reached the Duke de Sairmeuse’s mansion she found three or four lacqueys talking in front of the principal entrance.
He was garbed and harnessed after a fashion that proclaimed him half-knight, half-peasant, and caused the castle lacqueys to eye him with amusement and greet him with derision.
His suite consisted of fully a hundred attendants, what with esquires, pages, lacqueys and grooms, whilst twelve chariots and fifty sumpter-mules were laden with his baggage.
These were followed by a posse of lacqueys in the same liveries and two mules laden with coffers draped with cloth of gold, which contained the gifts of which Cesare was the bearer.
The number of "gentlemen of the mouth" is in future to be restricted to fifty, the gentlemen of the chambers to forty, who are not to have more than two lacqueys each.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lacqueys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
