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The fate of new words in this respect is curious. Often, if they are convenient, or have knack of lodging easily in the memory, they work slowly upward. The Scotch word flunky is a case in point. Our first knowledge of it in print is from Fergusson's Poems. Burns advertised it more widely, and Carlyle seems fairly to have transplanted it into the English of the day.
My seafarer was in a great stew. To sit there and watch him was to warm up to him. There he was, a man who regularly faced death by more ways than one at sea, but now in deep fear that this shore-going flunky would catch him smoking a surreptitious cigarette. He stared determinedly at every place except at his hat until the doorkeeper had passed on.
If one could have an opportunity of picking a lady out of a fire, or saving her from the clutches of an Italian bravo, or getting her a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, one would be inclined to do it. In such cases, there would be no contempt mixed up with the lady's gratitude. But ladies are never really grateful to a man for turning himself into a flunky." "Ah!
I asked where your room was, sir, and walked right in, since your flunky was not at the door." "Quite so. You were in my room for a few minutes " "Say five," interpolated the American imperturbably. "And then came down. You met my servant, who told you that I would not be back for five or six hours." "That's just as you state, sir.
He is happy who takes more pleasure in a beautiful sunset than in the sight of a flunky with powdered hair, artificial calves and lofty manners, handing him something indigestible on a plate of gold.
The door was open, letting out a flood of lamp-light, and the generals and staff-officers were taking leave of the Emperor and filing out one by one, Frossard leading, his head bent on his breast. Some went away to rooms assigned them, guided by a flunky, some passed across the terrace with swords trailing and spurs ringing, and disappeared in the darkness.
The flunky world, much stript of its plush and fat perquisites, accuses Friedrich Wilhelm bitterly of avarice and the cognate vices. But it is not so; intrinsically, in the main, his procedure is to be defined as honorable thrift, verging towards avarice here and there; as poor human virtues usually lean to one side or the other!
He talked to my man Morgan." "And I suppose his flunky, Billie Blue, goes with cookie?" I added. "The nine against us is now eleven," the girl said quietly. I spoke cheerfully, which is far from how I felt. "Oh, well, what's the odds? Nine or eleven, we'll beat them." A steamer rug lying on a lounge at the end of the room heaved itself up.
The Old World has nothing at all like him. He is at once an emperor and a subordinate. His other hand is in your boot, which he is about to polish. It is impossible to turn a fellow citizen whose vote may make his master say, rather, employer Governor or President, or who may be one or both himself, into a flunky. That article must be imported ready-made from other centres of civilization.
An astounded flunky could say no more; but this impudent hunchback was in no wise abashed. "Exactly, Monsieur Felix Poluski wishes to see his Excellency at once. Tell him that, and it will suffice." The lackey was forced to yield, and, much to his surprise, Prince Michael did not hesitate an instant in obeying that imperative summons.
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