footman

How To Use footman In A Sentence

• The footman accuses the cook, she accuses the needlewoman, and the latter accuses the other two.
• It was only after a painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler and the footman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The butler came and took their plates away, and the footman's eyebrows went up a hairsbreadth at the sight of the empty soup tureen. THE WHITE DOVE
• This is the man who has a footman put the toothpaste on his toothbrush for him, after all. The Sun
• A neatly dressed footman in navy blue livery stood, alert, by its side and a pair of gleaming chestnut horses were in harness.
• Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning? Roundabout Papers
• She climbed onto the bench next to the driver, while the footman helped Lady Mary into the cab.
• ‘Oh, you’ve come, ’ he said, addressing a tall old footman of his mother’s, standing at the door; ‘come here. Chapter XVII. Part I
• When it was a kitten some young Plymborough roughs had hurled it into the little river, and were making of it what they termed a "cockshy," pelting it with stones, fortunately ineffectually, and trying to beat it under water, when the Doctor's footman, who was crossing the bridge, saw what was going on and made an unexpected charge upon the young ruffians, effectually scattering them. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
• _Enter Aimwell in a riding-habit, and Archer as footman, carrying a portmantle_. The Beaux-Stratagem