10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTBOY»
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potboy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
potboy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle
The potboy never liked Tikat, but he did point to his lunch and suggest the potboy
should eat it, so the boy thought maybe he wasn't so bad after all, for a
southerner . For the rest of that day the potboy dodges everywhere around the
inn, hiding ...
2
Kill the Queen!: The Eight Assasignation Attempts on Queen ...
The. PotBoy,. 1840. The two guns bulging from his trouser pockets,Edward
Oxfordleft the house with a feeling of purpose and determination.They might think
of him as a thin youth of no consequence, but he would show them. It was six
weeks ...
3
Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
I don't believe a bit of his rights” (HK, ). The most powerful commentary
comes from the potboy and the barmaid, who see Hugh carrying Louey for a
short visit with his father at the Full Moon. Their cryptic exchange combines grim
realism ...
4
The New Monthly Magazine
We set out at the top of our speed to overtake it, and probably might have done
so had not Wilkins, in turning a corner, upset a potboy who was carrying out the
supper- beer to the streets in the neighbourhood. Wilkins, the potboy, and at least
...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1843
5
Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
... distance of about two hundred yards from the door of the White Hart, he was
startled by beholding the diminutive form and somewhat contorted person, of the
poor little potboy, Billy Lamb, coming towards him with an empty jug in his hand.
6
Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition
... occupied by the Xenagie of the Blue Dimarchi when Severian visits. He is an
imposing man with a high, white forehead like the belly of a pitcher. History: the
ruler or chief officer of a town or borough. potboy a boy or young man employed ...
Michael Andre-Driussi, 2008
7
The Stone Rose: Medieval Family Saga
The yawning potboy was removing last night's spent torches from the wall
sconcesand replacing themwith fresh ones which would be litthat evening.Otto
caught the potboy's eye and, signalling for service, wentto join his colleagues.
8
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, ...
In such an establishment, the white-aproned potboy, with his shirt-sleeves
arranged in a tight roll on each bare shoulder, was a mere hint of the possibility of
physical force, thrown out as a matter of state and form. Exactly at the closing
hour, ...
9
Our Mutual Friend, Vol. I ~ Paperbound
Greater wonder than these, when a bottle-nosed person in a glazed hat had after
some considerable hesitation ordered another glass of gin and water of the
attendant potboy, and when Miss Abbey, instead of sending it, appeared in
person, ...
The potboy was indeed a boy with an enormous pot for a belly. The situation
worsened when the rude men tied my foot to a rope and yanked for all their might
. The potboy giggled when he did see me dangling as a spider from the ceiling, ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POTBOY»
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potboy is used in the context of the following news items.
The unseen Charles Dickens: read the excoriating essay on …
... the dust and flue settling upon the sick and dying, aggravating their sufferings and hastening their end; a broken-down potboy employed as ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-June
Readers with contemporary sensibilities may feel uneasy at the narrator's description of the tavern potboy as collective bedwarmer to the group ... «Locus Online, Jun 15»
Marco Pierre White and the future of dining out
Like the time when, as a potboy at Hotel St George, Harrogate, where he first started his love of cooking, the chef gave him 13 sacks of peas to ... «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»
Gentry: From potboy to paperboy
I was a potboy. I scrubbed the pots and pans and washed the dishes. A lot of the waitresses were my age – a plus – but potboy status was ... «The News Journal, Mar 15»
Gambling in sport: John Hartson on how betting nearly cost his life
For Hartson, the first symptoms appeared as an 11-year-old potboy at a social club in Swansea. Fascinated by the fruit machines, ... «BBC Sport, Jan 15»
Henry IV Part 1
... Marks' Poins, Martin Bassindale's Peto and Elliott Barnes-Worrell's double as Prince John and the harassed tavern potboy Francis stand out. «WhatsOnStage.com, Oct 14»
A better innings than at No 10...
Tiny John Wisden, the Almanac's founder and a nifty fast bowler, was a publican's potboy. Yet, for more than a century at Lord's, the 'gentlemen' ... «Daily Mail, May 07»
