He therefore dismissed and paid him off at once, so that the laquais might not observe, when he quitted his rooms the next day, that he took with him no change of clothes, etc.
Graham then informed his laquais de place that, though he kept on his lodgings, he was going into the country for a few days, and should not want the man's services till he returned.
We got out of the carriage and took off our hats, and our laquais de place dropped on his knees.
We drove to the Lateran: I had frequently visited this noble Basilica before, but on the present occasion we were to go over it in form, with the usual torments of laquais and ciceroni.
Graham then informed his laquais de place that, though he kept on his lodgings, he was going into the country for a few days, and should not want the man's services till he returned.
Graham rose at the entrance of his visitor, motioned him courteously to a seat beside him, and waiting till the laquaishad vanished, then asked, "What news?
At this moment the door-bell of the apartment rang, and a servant whom Graham had hired at Paris as a laquaisde place announced "Ce Monsieur.
In the next place, it appears that when she did take her solitary walk, she did not stray far from her carriage, and was in reach of the protection of her laquais and coachman.
In the midst of Graham's despairing reflections his laquais announced M.
You are not here, however, so I am obliged to give vent to my enthusiasm in bad Italian to thelaquais de place, who stands still and listens.
I asked by chance on my arrival at Milan the name of the Commandant, and the laquais de place named General Ertmann.
The fruits in this place begin to astonish me; such cherries did I never yet see, or even hear tell of, as when I caught the Laquais de Place weighing two of them in a scale to see if they came to an ounce.
The Laquais de Place who attended us at Bologna was one of the few persons I had met then, who spoke a language perfectly intelligible to me.
But here the clerk and the 'laquais de place' hesitated to proceed.
I was not a little astonished to learn from my 'laquais de place' that this man's fortune was estimated at two millions of guilders (gulden).
The laquais said he did not know whether his master was visible or not, but he would see; and, leaving the young Englishman in an ante-chamber, he went in and remained some five minutes.
Eustace drove first to the office, and got his passes countersigned by the magistracy for himself and me and our servant, showing a laquais whose height and complexion fairly agreed with those of Clement Darpent.
Altogether, he came out not at all unlike the laquais Jacques Pierrot, whom he was to personate.
They were neither worked out from the Guide-book, nor borrowed from his Laquais de Place.
The laquais de place, it seems, "talked like a cardinal.
Compared to the couriers and laquais de place of Europe, these men stand very high.
While I was in England last year an Englishman to whom Omar acted as laquais de place went away owing him 7 pounds for things bought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laquais" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
