Word: footmen
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...this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
...gillies' (servants') ball given by the King and Queen to 300 tenants and employes on the royal estates in Scotland. Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program...
Crown Prince Christian Frederick ushered the Cossacks, now weeping, from the presence of his great-aunt. Two royal footmen wheeled her from the room, carried her chair upstairs. Still she was dry-eyed, though seemingly much moved...
...arrangement regarding maintenance men was made, more satisfactory to the miners than any ?in previous strikes. Ten thousand men?bratticers, carpenters, drivers, doormen, headmen, footmen, engineers, pumpmen, lumbermen, etc.?will stay at the mine throughout the strike, will receive retroactively any increase in wages when operations are resumed, will not be discharged by the operators...
...inner courtyard, a rasping order brought flashing swords to a royal salute. Somewhere in the background the drums of the Grenadier Guards rolled and the band broke into the national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered...