Having a contempt for curates, whom he always called understrappers, he was resolved to be buried by a beneficed clergyman. ❋ Unknown (1871)
There was good reason for the aides-de-camp an "understrappers," as Elmendorf referred to them, being even more mysterious than usual. ❋ Charles King (1888)
The prime minister himself drank water throughout, but some of his understrappers were cunningly pouring champagne from the flutes into regular white wine glasses. ❋ Simon Hoggart (2010)
Have the goodness, then, to let one of your understrappers correct the spelling and the grammar of my papers; and you can give him a few shillings in my name for his trouble. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The electors were balloting; but with the ballot, — so said the leader of the understrappers, — there never was any excitement. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At the committee-room he only found a few understrappers, and was informed that everything was going on regularly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Another projected a variety of plans for new dictionaries, which were executed under his eye by day-labourers; and the province of a third was history and voyages, collected or abridged by understrappers of the same class. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But when these fellows were recognised, by some one in the court, as Protestant witnesses out of employment, companions and understrappers to Oates, and Bedloe, and Carstairs, and hand in glove with Dangerfield, Turberville; and ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Drudgery to their Dogs, alias i.e. curates and understrappers. ❋ Unknown (1961)
Red Cloud came into Laramie and Fetterman several times to get leave to trade, but at last he said "he'd go to the Great Father at Washington, and not treat with understrappers, with whom he will in future have nothing to do." ❋ Edmund B. Tuttle (N/A)
I had been plundered of my rings and every thing else previously, by the understrappers. ❋ Various (N/A)
At sight of this extraordinary spectacle the two understrappers came to ❋ Charles M. Snyder (N/A)
"You can't expect his understrappers to quarrel with their bread and butter." ❋ Mark Lee Luther (N/A)
The understrappers of aged General Scott upheld all that concurred with warfare, set and obsolete, of the European strategists, overthrown by the great ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
It is said of her that she was so proud of the title and all it implied, that she would add "Maîtresse du Roi" to her signature when communicating with understrappers at the palace. ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)
Beatrice's father, who had talked to him, had probably committed the crime: if not he, one of his understrappers at his order. ❋ Edison Marshall (1930)
I want you to tell these understrappers of yours to take that squaw and clear out of Clearwater. ❋ Edison Marshall (1930)
His place put various converging wires of underground influence under the Chief's control, capable when astutely worked thro 'his understrappers, of operating to the mysterious discomfort, if nothing worse, of any of the sea-commonalty. ❋ Unknown (1924)
