What is "footman"

Usage examples of "footman".

She rang for the footman and in the transport of her fever she found strength to write the following letter, for she was mastered by one mad desire--to have certainty:-- To Madame la Baronne du Guenic: Dear Mamma,--When you come to Paris, as you allow us to hope you will, I shall thank you in person for the beautiful present by which you and my aunt Zephirine and Calyste wish to reward me for doing my duty.

As a befurred footman handed Fevvers into the one, the Strong Man pitched the carcass into the other.

So now as he stood rubbing his hands it was in the absolute certainty that in just a few more seconds one of the footmen would appear between the tapestry portieres bearing aloft a silver tray with the tea things, and then Bibby would come in with the paper, and presently Mrs.

Anne often threatened to leave her, and go to a boarding-house, of which there were plenty in the place, yet, after all, to live with her sister, and drive out in the carriage with the footman and coachman in mourning, and the lozenge on the panels, with the Bluebeard and Shacabac arms quartered on it, was far more respectable, and so the lovely sisters continued to dwell together.

Here and there a bootboy idled a few minutes, or a footman stood looking important.

Instead, she handed the flowers to one of the ever-present footmen with the same resolve Brenn had used himself to confront French cannons.

Since Charlie Donaldson and most of the footmen had accompanied Jonet to Cambridgeshire, he was admitted by a housemaid whom he scarcely recognized.

It was customary at Canons Grange for the footmen to bring in and serve each course, and then withdraw from the room until Mr Hartwell rang a small handbell to summon them to take out the remains and bring in the next course.

He turned, passed through the French doors, the great hall and beyond the portico to the granite porch, where he looked down upon a man seated on horseback, reins caught in the hand of the footman.

In the autumn, when the leaves were falling in the wooded grounds of Fellside, the young ladies were sent, still under guardianship of governesses and footmen, to some quiet seaside resort between Alnwick and Edinburgh, where Mary lived the wild free life she loved, roaming about the beach, boating, shrimping, seaweed-gathering, making hard work for the governesses and footmen who had been sent in charge of her.

And then the footman said something to Collins in German that Girard did not understand.

Heavy-hearted, Girard pointed the footmen toward the back, where the ten bushels lay.

Lem ran to Girard, their thin arms embracing his legs like spiders clinging to a juicy fly as soon as all the footmen save the leader left the shop, carrying armloads of tins.

Inside the shop, Girard heard nothing but the bell-like clamor of the tins striking each other as the German footmen hurled them carelessly into the wain.

Carissa had taken Timothy first, and Greger and one of the footmen had hauled the coachman off to his own bed to sleep off the effects.