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CHAPTER. 3. Flunkeydom. So there it was. We sat about for some time, Joe and I
, talking over the various alternative possibilities. They amounted, in essence, to
these: that the deaths were indeed accidental, as the inquest had decided; that ...
A. SPOKE. IN. THE. WHEEL. OF. FLUNKEYDOM. ngels and Ministers, and so on,
what are we coming to P The Prince of Walis good naturedly went down to
Caterham the other day, with the thermometer at 80°, to lay the first stone of some
...
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Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
Now, Sir, is it -desira-bl-e to introduce an element of patronage and flunkeydom,
because the two things are exactly the same. A man who patronises is called a
flunkey, and the man who is called a flunkey would, if he dared, become a ...
It must also be admitted that Watts had his full share of that spiritual flunkeydom
which the eighteenth century confused with christian humility. Take these two
verses from another moral song:What tho' I be low and mean, I'll engage the rich
to ...
5
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The only change I would make is to open Flunkeydom to younger sons. Prejudice
, I am aware, would revolt against it; but remember there is no livery, there is no
hardship, it is a life of actual ease, of a very dignified leisure, with excellent diet.
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The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth
His Worship had indeed usurped all the modern appliances of flunkeydom. But
the cabinet, it was acknowledged, was very thick-headed, and her Majesty, good
body, must bear the consequences. " Well, after the most curious caravan eyes ...
7
The Windsor Tapestry: Being a Study of the Life, Heritage ...
Flunkeydom is in a state of decay nowadays whether it be the flunkeydom of the
great house or the higher flunkeydom of the court officials. That grand absurdity
of manner is no longer easily to be found. And that very decay of flunkeydom may
...
Sir Compton Mackenzie, 1938
8
Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity
... nationalist hostility to tourism as an abject exercise in flunkeydom, it was
important to scotch any suggestion that welcoming visitors to Ireland involved a
reversion to the musichall stereotype with craven natives capering around.
Michael Cronin, Barbara O'Connor, 2003
... and no more to me than anybody else ; but one don't like to let politics interfere
; " by which Trebooze glosses over to himself and friends the deep flunkeydom
with which he lusteth after a live lord's acquaintance, and one especially in whom
...
The Whips, secure in their certainty that jumping a stiff blackthorn or hollering a
fox away as he crept down the winter covertside was a very different thing from
flunkeydom, merely smiled and wondered how a man who could handle horses
so ...
