Robert Melville, who appeared to have been using some soothing language — “No! no! no! I tell thee, no! I will place a petard against the door rather than be baulked by a profligate woman, and bearded by an insolent footboy.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
She told her name, and was shewn, by a little shabby footboy, into a parlour. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A small sharp – looking lad, half – footboy and half – clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Injury is on the other side a good man's footboy, his fidus Acliates, and as a lackey follows him wheresoever he goes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There were gates to open, and Hepburn jumped down to open them, as if he were the footboy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Molly stayed twittering by the door, wonderful because she saw her King of Men cringing like a footboy before a shorter than himself. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
Honest Roger, the red-haired coachman, would have looked like a clown in a pantomime, in front of a fashionable equipage; and Simon the footboy, who slouched at my back, would have been mistaken for an idle urchin surreptitiously enjoying a ride. ❋ Various (N/A)
Extreme cold is very well expressed in the slip-shod footboy, and the girl who is warming her hands. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)
Even before his apprenticeship to Mr. John Lambert, he felt he was not appreciated or understood; perhaps no one ever _acted_ a greater satire upon his own profession than this harsh attorney, who deemed his apprentice on a level with his footboy. ❋ Various (N/A)
Definitions of "Jack" include: boots; a diminutive of John used contemptuously to mean a saucy fellow; a footboy who pulls off his master's boots; a scream; a male; American slang for a stranger; American slang for a jackass; a cunning fellow who can do anything - such as a "Jack of all trades." ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)
"Thou dost go about as a footboy, and not as a King's son." ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)
Mary was brought up as a boy, and at the age of 13 was engaged as a footboy to wait on a French lady. ❋ Philip Gosse (1919)
The shabby footboy, summoned by Pansy, had come out with a small table, which he placed upon the grass, and then had gone back and fetched the tea-tray; after which he again disappeared, to return with a couple of chairs. ❋ Unknown (1917)
A small sharp-looking lad, half-footboy and half-clerk, who was very much out of breath, but who looked at me as if he defied me to prove it legally, presented himself. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)
O, sir! his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue list; an old hat, and the humour of forty fancies pricked int for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian footboy or a gentlemans lackey. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The next step of this youth, who was always dreaming of the love of princesses, was to accept with just thankfulness the position of lackey or footboy in the household of a widow. ❋ Morley, John (1905)
Where did you come in with that little footboy, that looks so sad at thee? ❋ Unknown (1898)
"Rise up, rise up, my little footboy, go feed my horse his hay" ❋ Unknown (1898)
She dressed herself like a little footboy, she ran at the horse's knee ❋ Unknown (1898)
Me in all this he used as a kind of inferior coadjutor, much as a responsible and upper servant might use a footboy. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)
