Use "footman" in a sentence

1. About seven years ago, that sum was in the same place the ordinary yearly wages of a common footman

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2. The weary footman pays no attention

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3. The weary footman takes the reins and weeps

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4. Still dressed in simple, informal dresses, the Queen and the Princess got in the big car, with a royal footman opening the rear left door for them

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5. The footman then joined the driver on the front bench seat as the Queen gave a terse order

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6. She waited until half a dozen policemen had rushed in to somewhat control the crowd of reporters, then stepped out of the car after the footman had opened her door

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7. Suppose you do not, in the end, have a footman to open your door--the footman is merely a symbol, conveniently expressing the multitude of superfluities that gather about the declining years of the person who has got on, things bought with the sacrifice of his life, and none of them giving him back the lost power, gone with youth, to enjoy them--suppose, then, you do not end gloriously with a footman, what of that? I must be blind, for I never can see the desirability of these trappings

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8. The footman, the butler, and Miss Cartwright looked at each other

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9. "Peculiar, I call it," said the footman, thinking to curry favour with the butler

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10. "Oh, _now_ they're for it!" Miss Cartwright exulted, flying to the bell and ringing it so violently that a footman actually came running

11. Exulting and excited, she flew to the bell, and could hardly hide her triumph when she told the footman to send her the two chief sinners

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12. Where is she?" And throwing his hat to the footman, which the young man, having been till recently a prominent member of his village eleven, deftly caught, he gave a pull to his waistcoat, a twitch to his tie, wriggled his neck more comfortably into his collar, rubbed his hands, and was ready for anything

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13. Kinder, now, to usher him out before his feelings got hurt, decided Soames; who accordingly began making movements in the direction of the outer hall, signing, at the same time, to the footman

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14. "Well, sir, I can't say--" Soames was beginning, when the footman, who was new, who was still truthful, who was kindly, and also who wanted to save his chief from unnecessary running about, supposing it had slipped his memory stepped forward and timidly reminded him that they both had seen her ladyship going into the secretary's office a short time ago; and before Soames had even begun to glare at the officious young man Edward was off, straight as a dart down the right passage, and making unerringly for the right door

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15. Ingram had found a room in the village inn at Kökensee, a place so sordid, so entirely impossible as the next habitation after theirs for one who had been their guest, that the Baron and Baroness were concerned for what their servants must think when they heard him direct their coachman in the presence of their butler and footman, as he clambered nimbly into the dogcart, to take him to it

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16. Dawson, and that he"--the footman coughed slightly--"he don't want to see any more of him, my lady

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17. At the door, it is true, he had been stirred to petulance by the foolish face and utterances of the footman James, but during the whole of the time he had been alone with Lady Shuttleworth he had behaved, he considered, with the utmost restraint and tact

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18. Fritzing, polite man, hastened to meet her, pushing aside the footman and offering his arm

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19. A footman came into the room and bowed before the table

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20. He had watched from the woods as a gatekeeper had carried Petra to the manor, as a young footman received her into his arms, as young Falstaff had directed the staff and a parade of candlelight had made its way to a window in the northwest corner

21. The footman re-entered carrying a tea tray stacked with tea things and a plate of butter biscuits, freshly baked going by their delicious smell

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22. He sat in the chair opposite and leaned forward as the footman poured the tea

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23. When the footman left I hazarded a glance at Jacob

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24. No one enters during the day without Greggs the footman letting them in and the house is locked up at night

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25. "A footman on his night off

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26. "The footman died in a better part of town

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27. "The house where the footman worked was burgled soon after his death

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28. The footman showed me into the Culvert's drawing room where George met me a few minutes later

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29. He said he had no idea who he was and to make sure Forbes had at least one footman on hand whenever he answered the door

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30. It says the police think the footman was mauled to death by a stray dog

31. "Another footman," Jacob said

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32. "Fool!" Lord Preston shouted at the hapless footman

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33. "I was told too about some footman of yours in the country whom you treated badly

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34. "Was that the footman who came to you after death to fill your pipe?

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35. Long ago great people lived here, and coming back from Court past midnight stood, huddling their satin skirts, under the carved door-posts while the footman roused himself from his mattress on the floor, hurriedly fastened the lower buttons of his waistcoat, and let them in

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36. Elinor thought she could distinguish a large W in the direction; and no sooner was it complete than Marianne, ringing the bell, requested the footman who answered it to get that letter conveyed for her to the two-penny post

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37. "Has no letter been left here for me since we went out?" said she to the footman who then entered with the parcels

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38. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity! He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Let us settle it at once: will you stay here, and am I to fight my way to Catherine over Linton and his footman? Or will you be my friend, as you have been hitherto, and do what I request? Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!"

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39. At half-past one they descended, the coachman and footman had put on their livery over their disguises, which gave them a more ridiculous appearance than ever, and which gained them the applause of Franz and Albert

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40. " The count rang, and a footman appeared

41. As soon as he appeared in the Count of Morcerf's ante-chamber, a footman, the same who at Rome had brought the count's card to the two young men, and announced his visit, sprang into the vestibule, and when he arrived at the door the illustrious traveller found his carriage awaiting him

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42. " The footman obeyed his orders

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43. " Monte Cristo gave his hat, cane, and gloves to the same French footman who had called his carriage at the Count of Morcerf's, and then he passed into the small salon, preceded by Bertuccio, who showed him the way

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44. The carriage stopped, the footman sprang off the box, and opened the door

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45. "It is your new master, my good fellow," said the footman

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46. familiar with the house, entered first into the court, threw his bridle into the hands of a footman, and returned to the door to receive Madame Danglars, to whom he offered his arm, to conduct her to her apartments

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47. It was, however, too late; Albert had followed the footman, and, hearing the order given, forced the door open, and followed by Beauchamp found himself in the banker's study

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48. Some of the apartments were closed within and without; the shutters were only opened to admit a minute's air, showing the scared face of a footman, and immediately afterwards the window would be closed, like a gravestone falling on a sepulchre, and the neighbors would say to each other in a low voice, "Will there be another funeral to-day at the procureur's house?" Madame Danglars involuntarily shuddered at the desolate aspect of the mansion; descending from the cab, she approached the door with trembling knees, and rang the bell

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49. It is that you ring for the footman

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50. I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a

51. above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat—all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings

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52. At half-past seven she had only just gone down into the drawing room, when the footman announced, ‘Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin

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53. A footman stood opening the carriage door

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54. A footman brought in a thick packet directed in Alexey Alexandrovitch’s hand

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55. ‘The courier asks if there’s an answer,’ the footman

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56. ’; and, ringing the bell, gave it to the footman

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57. At the same moment as she entered, Vronsky’s footman, with side- whiskers combed out like a

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58. As she took off her outer garment in the hall, she heard the footman, pronouncing his ‘r’s’ even like a Kammerjunker, say, ‘From the count for the princess,’ and hand the note

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59. Would you be pleased to walk into the garden?’ announced another footman in another room

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60. ‘Directly, directly!’ he cried to a footman who came in

61. But the footman had not come to call them again, as he supposed

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62. The footman brought Vronsky a note

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63. And, putting on his coat as he went, he patted the footman on the head, chuckled, and went out

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64. A footman in powder and livery opened the door

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65. "Yes, sir?" said the footman

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66. Following the footman, I was shown into a large, book-lined room in which there was seated behind a writing-desk a small man with a pleasant, clean-shaven, mobile face, and long hair shot with grey, brushed back from his forehead

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67. He looked me up and down with a very shrewd, penetrating glance, holding the card which the footman had given him in his right hand

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68. He rang a gong upon the table, and the footman entered

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69. She would have money in her hand to give the hall porter and the footman, so that they should let her in, and not raising her veil, she would say that she had come from Seryozha’s godfather to congratulate him, and that she had been charged to leave the toys at his bedside

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70. ’ A footman offered her coffee

71. ‘The spring was broken yesterday,’ said the footman

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72. ‘What’s this?’ Levin thought, when a footman ran out of the house and stopped the trap

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73. He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over-boot

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74. footman, who bowed to him as to an intimate friend, who

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75. The doctor was not yet up, and the footman said that ‘he had been up late, and had given orders not to be waked, but would get up soon

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76. ’ The footman was cleaning the lamp-chimneys, and seemed very busy about them

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77. This concentration of the footman upon his lamps, and his indifference to what was passing in Levin, at first astounded him, but immediately on considering the question he realized that no one knew or was bound to know his feelings, and that it was all the more necessary to act calmly, sensibly, and resolutely to get through this wall of indifference and attain his aim

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78. At the chemist’s the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the same callousness with which the doctor’s footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys

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79. The doctor was not even now getting up, and the footman, busy now in putting down the rugs, refused to wake him

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80. Won’t you have some tea?’ she said, with her eyes indicating the footman, who was handing round

81. ’ she was beginning, when a footman came into the room with a letter

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82. added, looking at the footman, who came in again with another letter

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83. ’ She was just settling herself to read when the footman came in again

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84. He left me but I did not sleep again; nearly two hours later a footman came with tea and bread and butter and set my clothes out for a new day

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85. A footman answered

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86. How can I describe him? He is like the footman in Warning Shadows - a great clod of a German who'd been in the Foreign Legion

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87. This was plainly the 'thoroughly bad hat' of the consul's description, the film footman of Anthony's

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88. Plender and Wilcox became joint grooms of the chambers, like 'Blues' and Life Guards with equal precedence, Plender having as his particular province his Lordship's own apartments and Wilcox a sphere of influence in the public rooms; the senior footman was given a black coat and promoted butler, the non-descript Swiss, on arrival, was to have plain clothes and full valet's status there was a general increase in wages to meet the new dignities, and all were content

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89. It drew up; first Cordelia got out, then Cara; there was a pause, a rug was handed to the chauffeur, a stick to the footman; then a leg was cautiously thrust forward

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90. There was a little heraldic chair by the chimney-piece, one of a set which stood against the walls, a little, inhospitable, flat-seated thing, a mere excuse for the elaborate armorial painting on its back, on which, perhaps, no one, not even a weary footman, had ever sat since it was made; there Lord Marchmain sat and wiped his eyes

91. These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed

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92. Dorothea was raising her eyes, and was about to speak, when the door opened and her footman came to say—

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