When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)
Not even Jack D'Aintree, who had risen from errand-boy to director and snubbed him in the street only yesterday, had ever got into a newspaper headline. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As manager of the Framheim coal and wood business, he, of course, received the title of Director, and this dignity might possibly have gone to his head if the occupation of errand-boy had not been combined with it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It sounds like Donna Watts and her errand-boy Shackleford are desperate to slime an honorable man because Donna has absolutely no qualifications to enable her to win otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Congressman JDV, the one time staunch ally and errand-boy of the president and the administration, turned enemy of the first family. ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)
The errand-boy next door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; today I saw him pass, and he had ❋ Unknown (2008)
The errand-boy mentality is ordinary, the defender of liberty is seen as bizarre. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When he was an errand-boy, and even in the early days of his apprenticeship, the citizen had many a time trudged to the Post - office to ask if there were any letter from poor little Joe, and had gone home again with tears in his eyes, when he found no news of his only friend. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is not an uncommon thing for a gentleman to be obliged to do the work of gardener, errand-boy, and groom. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He had started in life as the errand-boy and sweeper-out of a warehouse; had struggled up through all the grades of employment in the place, fighting his way through the hard striving Manchester life with strong pushing energy of character. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And even a Ford van saves the labour, not of the errand-boy but of the horse. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Edinburgh, with its long, steep pavements, is the proper home of sliders; many a happy urchin can slide the whole way to school; and the profession of errand-boy is transformed into a holiday amusement. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Scarcely was this information imparted when a knock at the kitchen-door announced the Fieldhead errand-boy, arrived in hot haste, bearing a billet from Mrs. Pryor. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mrs. Babington declared loudly that old Bolton had been an errand-boy in his youth, and that his father had been a porter and his mother a washerwoman. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His father had been promoted to a section boss after working for years as a day-laborer on the adjoining railroad, and John, junior, one of eight other children, had been sent out early to do many things — to be an errand-boy in a store, a messenger-boy for a telegraph company, an emergency sweep about a saloon, and finally a bartender. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr. Harding felt very much like an errand-boy and also felt that he was called on to perform his duties as such at rather an unseemly time, but he said nothing and took the slip of paper and the proffered coin. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Thou art too stupid for me, I cannot make a herdsman of thee, thou must go as errand-boy.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
