Master Rababull regarded his chiefunderling with a faint sneer and barked, "Swear to me Slavemaster that all you have spoken is truth and that my every command was obeyed to the fullest!
As you wish, Highness," said Borla, as he bowed low and handed the sword back to the underling again.
It was an oft and well-practiced suffix, to signify that it was Emperor Euphrates's own decision, rather than that of an underling such as Borla.
The sneaking arts of underling tradesman are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers.
He liked to step in where an underling had failed, get his teeth into the situation, shake the mystery out of it, and then obliterate the underling with a half hour of blasphemous abuse.
His underling returned and, resting on his arm, Jennings with some difficulty managed to get down the stairs.
A flash of joy passed across the countenance of Jennings, but he turned away from his underling so that he might not betray the satisfaction he felt.
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers.
Before Sargeant could prevent it, an underling had waved a white sheet from one of the upper windows in surrender.
He was in a unusually communicative mood to-night, and had been superintending the grooming of his horse, and talking to the underling who had waited up to receive him.
Money had been employed by the agent, as well as drink, as a means of temptation; but even every insidious hint of possible gains had failed to move the ill-paid underling to any revelation.
He told Josephs the coachman as much when he had dispatched an underling to fetch the cleanest four-wheeler procurable at an adjacent stand.
The President and General Attorney and thirty-two underling attorneys of the Anaconda Airline, in accord with Mr. Gwynn's request, descended upon Washington.
The thirty-two underling attorneys, coming to town by twos and threes, were amazed when they found a gathering of the Anaconda Airline clans.
On such occasions his unblinking stare, wholly receptive like an underling taking orders, and never a glimmer of either contradiction or agreement or even intelligence to show therein, was almost disconcerting.
Of course, the great man had an underling to do the work, and probably that underling was not chosen for sweetness of temper or facile leniency to his charges.
It was Juan Pombal, del Sarto’s underling and constant associate.
Dyke hunted throughout the city for a faithful underlingof Pedro’s, a man called Juan Pombal.
As soon as theunderling had spread a cloth and arranged the cups and plates Chamu nudged him into the background and stood to receive praise undivided.
And, of course, one of the first discoveries made by the native underling to whom the inquiry was entrusted, was Surabhi.
There were fifty other fowls in the neighbouring village, but nothing would serve the underlingwhose duty it was to collect supplies, but that this wretched child's pet should serve for the Huzoor's dinner.
This young Hercules, with his open-air traditions, and his athlete's triumphs behind him, turned into the butt and underling of half a dozen clerks in a stuffy office!
The chances stood even with only your underling in command; judge then what her fate must be with your strong sword thrown in the balance against her.
So he resolved to return to the barracks and question his underling regarding the recent admittances.
Now the child born last was the son of obscure parents, the father being an underling secretary of the Prince, known as Liszt.
Under an assumed name Verdi got occasional work as an underling in one of the theaters, and also played the piano at a restaurant.
If he could feel like anything but an underling he'd succeed," said Jennie.
What was the use of his studies in farming practise, if he was always to be an underling whose sole duty was to carry out the crude ideas of his employers?
Crofts put his finger to his quivering lips and, beckoning his underling aside, whispered to him: "No word of this to the rest of the house, mind you.
Persis could not conceivably mate herself for life to a peevishunderling like him.
Deacon, Isaac, from anunderling to a surveyor, becomes inspector- general of America, i.
The underling accomplice of a robber, That from a widow and a widow's offspring Would steal their heritage?
Merely to play the underling in the murder Of my best friend Kiuprili!
John Mellish and Talbot Bulstrode walked to and fro upon the lawn before the drawing-room windows on that afternoon on which the detective and his underling lost sight of Stephen Hargraves.
If the "Softy" showed any disposition to be social, and gave his companion any opportunity of getting friendly with him, the detective's underling was to employ his utmost skill and discretion in availing himself of that golden chance.
Probably some underling in the Nickel Trust whom Van Torp has offended without knowing it, or who has lost money by him.
He is probably some underling whose feelings you have hurt, or who has lost money by you, or both.
