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Top-hatted footmen guard the entrances, sneering politely at the clientele and keeping the passing rabble at bay.
These butlers, footmen, valets, drivers, personal assistants, and bodyguards knew where the bodies lay.
We walked in silence and stood together, before the carriage door, as one of the footmen loaded my valise into the storage compartment.
He tried the stables for 133 horses, the kennels for 144 hounds, the attics for 144 abigails or footmen.
Surely in our increasingly democratic age it should have died out along with footmen and flunkeys?
As soon as he was gone, all the footmen and other servants burst out laughing.
There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen.
Demons, with their leathery wings spread wide, tore through the angelic ranks like heavy cavalry through green footmen.
Her equerries and footmen march bareheaded on either side next the litter, and outside, the pensioners on foot with their halberds.
Here posture is better, suitings thicker and footmen are said to survive behind oaks up the odd gravel drive.
When you signed up, you were asked where you wanted to be, cavalry, archery, footmen, swordsmen, smiths.
The footmen handed her into the coach, the coachman snapped his whip, and off they drove in grand style.
Henry is shown surrounded by a host of footmen, officials and dignitaries, a mace bearer, a crowd of nobles, and six trumpeters.
It was Perrault who brought us the fairy godmother, the pumpkin that turned into a coach and the lizards, mice and rat as footmen, horses and coachman.
People were forever writing letters to each other, says Fellowes, asking where they could find decent cooks and competent maids or reliable footmen.
Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue.
In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen.
In the curry recipe below, Indian spices just play footmen to these local ingredients.
There is a wonderful story of footmen having to remove for cleaning all the electric lamps each morning, as if they were oil lamps.
Imagine footmen playing a royal brass fanfare as we announce: ICANN now produces its first audio podcast series for you!
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One of the footmen ran for the winch, and another brought a knife from the house.
Most of the Foreign Ambassadors use state carriages for great occasions, with bewigged coachmen and standing footmen.
Two footmen with flambeaux got up behind, and the coachman was ordered to drive home.
Meanwhile, we trust that a watchful eye will be kept upon the angelic footmen and archangelic coachman.
The housekeeper, the old nurse, the cooks, coachmen, maids, footmen, postilions, and scullions stood at the gate, staring at the wounded.
The dessert was not carried out till after nine and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee-cups.
Two footmen were standing ready, dressed in drab livery, with scarlet breeches and white stockings.
At her superstar peak Gloria was taken to her dressing room on a sedan chair carried by four footmen while cast and crew bowed to her.
The footmen were hastening through the rooms with waiters loaded with ices.
The two footmen and Matvey, in white cravats, did their duty with the dishes and wines unobtrusively, quietly, and swiftly.
Away in a darkling corner, under the organ, sate a squad of footmen.
Nor did it take long for every stronghold to pour forth its cavalry, and every hamlet its footmen.
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 ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded with light, and lined with flowers and footmen in powder and red coats.
He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
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