Short skirt worn by one currying favour

Usage examples of minion.

The guard would inform Banneret Dusburg that his minion had returned, and Dusburg would either send him out again or advise Banneret Catavolinos that he could have his subordinate back.

This circumstance occasioned me much internal emotion, though there could be no doubt that the Barnard whom I had such cause to execrate had only borrowed from this minion the disguise of his name.

Napoleon and the outspeaking of his minions, together with the measures which have been clandestinely taken by persons of power and influence to advance the interests of secession, show that there are influential classes in Western Europe, allied by interest to her fragmentary political organizations, who would gladly see the United States broken to pieces under the shock of rebellion.

On the walls of the Great Hall the Minions had painted, in blood, the Pentangle, the sign of the Coven.

Would the association, Planchette, and his minions allow her to stay here at all?

So I resolved to say nothing of my parentage, preferring instead to focus on the matter at hand, the slaying of a freewoman of Isteria by one of the minions of the mad king, Meander.

The Master, with many of the sailors, went on shore, taking one of the great pieces called a minion, and with the Planters drew it up the hill, with another piece that lay on the shore, and mounted them and a saller and two bases--five guns-- on the platform made for them.

Of course, I know they are all teeming with a dozen subcultures, each bloodthirsty minion armed and waiting for me.

It was the gate between the Lost Vale and the plane of Tarterus, the gate that Moander had used to transport its saurial minions to the Realms.

I have longed for some better object of worship than the trifler of fashion, or the yet more ignoble minion of the senses.

They shall be sheathed in the bowels of thee and thy minions, Corsus to wit, and Corund, and their sons, and Corinius, and what other evildoers harbour in waterish Witchland, sooner than one little sea-pink growing on the cliffs of Demonland shall do thee obeisance.

The Tribulation Force believed that Antichrist and his minions were about to attack Israeli Christians and that, when they fled, Rayford and his recruited fellow believers would serve as agents of rescue.

Tigellinus surrounded him with a triple guard of only his trusted minions, while he garrisoned the walls of Rome with praetorian cohorts, occupying even the coastlands and river banks.

Doubtless they could cause some damage to his minions with those, Rey thought, and the cyclopes, in their enthusiasm to capture the trio, might also injure one or more of them.

Above, twelve brass demiculverins, ten sakers, one minion, four portpieces, five fowlers, eight basies on the forecastle, six falcons, and nine falconets.