Top-hatted footmen guard the entrances, sneering politely at the clientele and keeping the passing rabble at bay. |
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These butlers, footmen, valets, drivers, personal assistants, and bodyguards knew where the bodies lay. |
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We walked in silence and stood together, before the carriage door, as one of the footmen loaded my valise into the storage compartment. |
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He tried the stables for 133 horses, the kennels for 144 hounds, the attics for 144 abigails or footmen. |
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Surely in our increasingly democratic age it should have died out along with footmen and flunkeys? |
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As soon as he was gone, all the footmen and other servants burst out laughing. |
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There were no ballrooms here, no antechambers upon antechambers, no retinues of servants and footmen. |
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Demons, with their leathery wings spread wide, tore through the angelic ranks like heavy cavalry through green footmen. |
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Her equerries and footmen march bareheaded on either side next the litter, and outside, the pensioners on foot with their halberds. |
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Here posture is better, suitings thicker and footmen are said to survive behind oaks up the odd gravel drive. |
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When you signed up, you were asked where you wanted to be, cavalry, archery, footmen, swordsmen, smiths. |
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The footmen handed her into the coach, the coachman snapped his whip, and off they drove in grand style. |
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Henry is shown surrounded by a host of footmen, officials and dignitaries, a mace bearer, a crowd of nobles, and six trumpeters. |
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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. |
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People were forever writing letters to each other, says Fellowes, asking where they could find decent cooks and competent maids or reliable footmen. |
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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. |
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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. |
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In the curry recipe below, Indian spices just play footmen to these local ingredients. |
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There is a wonderful story of footmen having to remove for cleaning all the electric lamps each morning, as if they were oil lamps. |
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Imagine footmen playing a royal brass fanfare as we announce: ICANN now produces its first audio podcast series for you! |
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If you were wealthy in the 18th century you travelled in your own carriage, with running footmen to prop you up at dangerous places in the road. |
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And David took from him a thousand chariots and seven thousand horseman, and twenty thousand footmen. |
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In the middle distance are their servants, grooms, running footmen and a man of higher status, wearing 17th century costume, mounted on a stallion. |
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A great enthusiasm filled the air as the armies spread out, loosening ranks, cavalry and footmen finding their way across the road and into the fields and woods. |
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Carmen, divines, great lords, and tailors, 'Prentices, pimps, poets, and jailers, Footmen, fine fops do here arrive, And here promiscuously they swive. |
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