单词 | potboy |
例句 | Even the cooks and potboys were watched constantly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z None of the big kettles was clean, so the potboy had to scrub one out before filling it with water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "The gods help this potboy if he's sent me off haring after shadows." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The king's own brother had gone with him to help choose the design, the potboy said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She plunged through the kitchens and buttery, blind with panic, weaving between cooks and potboys. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Tyrion began his explorations with the kitchen, where two fat women and a potboy watched him warily as he helped himself to cheese, bread, and figs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To follow was to be led from the scent; Coke wheeled again, therefore, and meeting a potboy who knew the street, he was directed to Grocott's. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The cheerfulest personage in the room was the potboy, who, as he stalked about with his apron on and p. 114his shirt-sleeves tucked up, seemed to be quite at home with his customers. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z To gratify her sweet grace, I’ll turn potboy, and wait upon the gossips of the tap. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z All vain ambition, such as that now subsisting, between the potboy and the peer, as manifested in Chesterfield's mosaic gold and cigars, would be prevented. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z So the housemaid keeps company with the potboy without consulting her own people.' The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z The unaccustomed visitor from the outside naturally assumed everybody to be prisoners—landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy and all. In Jail with Charles Dickens Then all was jollity again, and the potboy, notwithstanding the shortness of his legs, danced like a veritable Christy minstrel. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 This woman was so cautious that she left the paper untouched where she had laid it on the table while she conferred with a recently installed potboy on points of commercial economy. When Ghost Meets Ghost The potboy would be a contented slave, and the peer left to his superiority in clothes, trinkets, and sensualities. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z There were others who traced a friendship between the potboy at The Duchess and a son of one of the messengers. Marion Fay His prediction was quite accurate, for I had to tell him, after not many days, of the potboy who shot at the queen. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Sure enough, his daughter Alexandra had come home, with her husband the potboy, and a score of friends, and all hands were hard at a cotillon. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 “Beg pardon, mister,” said the potboy, with a leer, and touching his cap, “anything allowed for this here little job—carrying up the letter?” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story A potboy, rushing past with his arms full of tankards, bumped into the landlord; but not even this aroused him. The Grey Cloak As he turned down from the main road the very potboy from "The Duchess" rushed up to him, and congratulated him on his escape. Marion Fay One is making some very significant motions to the potboy at the “Ram and Radish,” and, lo! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 Bewitched by this wild, inhuman music the "travellers' room" seemed spellbound for ever, but all at once the door creaked and the potboy, in a new print shirt, came in. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories The landlord was not at home, but, said the potboy, was most likely “up along with the old ’un at the lock-’us.” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story A sleepy potboy went to and fro among the tables, clearing up empty tankards and breakage. The Grey Cloak The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners—landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all. Little Dorrit There is not a potboy in the vicinity who is not, to a greater or less extent, a dramatic character. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The potboy has gone to fetch a carpenter. The Moonstone A few customers came into the bar and were served by the sulky potboy, but there was no sign of Cripps. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story He was back in ten minutes; and in another ten minutes there appeared the potboy from the 'Blue Bell' carrying a huge tray, smoking hot. The Life of John Clare Esther and the potboy were alone in the house. Esther Waters Pitch into them with your broom! call the oyster-woman and the potboy next door to help you. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 In the end I was sure the potboy's evidence would clear me, and therefore began to enjoy the fun. The Splendid Spur He had to pass by the bar, and the barmaid and the potboy looked at him very hard. He Knew He Was Right He was too weak to be a farm labourer; too proud to remain a potboy in a public-house; and too poor to get apprenticed to any trade or handicraft. The Life of John Clare There would be a servant, a potboy, and perhaps a barmaid. Esther Waters At eleven the landlord gently but firmly insisted on his leaving, and he went, assisted, as far as the end of the court, by the potboy. John Ingerfield and Other Stories The potboy was insensible, and my eyes fell on Master Davenant, who slowly shook his head. The Splendid Spur He arranged terms of intimacy, I am sorry to say, with the housemaid; and, on the third journey, he made an alliance with the potboy at the Full Moon. He Knew He Was Right “Bliss is not always join’d to wealth, Nor dwells beneath the gilded roof For poverty is bliss with health, Of that my potboy stands a proof.” Adventures Among Books The sun was shining, and she watched the cab horses, until the potboy came through and began cleaning the street lamp. Esther Waters I gave the potboy the gratuity earned by his liberal information, and proceeded to Mr. J—— , in G—— Street, which was close by the street that boasted the haunted house. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English In the corner to my right cower'd a potboy, with tankard dangling in his hand, and the contents spilling into his shoes. The Splendid Spur "They mostly does," said the potboy, not without some feeling of pride in the immunities of his sex. He Knew He Was Right When the potboy appeared in answer to the bell he was told to bring up two half-pints, and Journeyman read out the weights. Esther Waters |
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