linkboy
linkman

The linkboy paused at the corner, missed us, and came running back to make sure we were still on our feet.

A linkboy came touting us; we hesitated, then took him on.

'At least let me be your linkboy,' he said.

He saw only a blurred glow, as if the linkboy's torch had been lost in fog.

As soon as we were alone, but for his linkboy walking ahead, I asked his news.

If you could not hold a candle to somebody, that means you were not even good enough to be his linkboy.

A linkboy's brand winked like a firefly down some distant lane, then vanished.

He was a motionless silhouette against the source of the ruddy light-a linkboy's torch.

"But the bay-was "Our linkboy saw nothing.

The expression "cannot hold a candle to" (meaning "inferior to") may derive from a comparison to an inadequate linkboy.

He tossed the linkboy a vowel for his service and tore open the wax-sealed message he had received.

The linkboy's fee was commonly one farthing, and the torch was often made from burning pitch and tow.

A link-boy (or link boy or linkboy) was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night.

Employing a linkboy could be dangerous, as some would lead their clients to dark alleyways, where they could be beset by footpads.

During the Renaissance, a person walking home after dark typically would have hired a linkboy to light the way with a candle or torch - then considered a low status position.

He jogged down toward Phillipe, slapping his stick against his tight breeches while his companion and the linkboy approached to bend and stare at the General.

Hogarth depicts a linkboy again, in plate four, Night, of his Four Times of the Day, this time huddled beneath a bench blowing on his torch.

In thieves' cant, a linkboy was known as a "Glym Jack" ("glym" meant "light") or a "moon-curser" (as their services would not be required on a moonlit night).

In that painting, little Cupid as a London linkboy wears demonic bat wings and an immense phallic torch to "remind those in the know of the proclivities of a certain patron."

In the mid-eighteenth century Laurence Casey, who was known as Little Cazey, became the personal linkboy of the famous courtesan Betty Careless, and gained something of reputation as a troublemaker.

Once he reached his destination, he tossed a coin to a linkboy and instructed him to watch his rig, then walked to the far end of the building and climbed the stairs to Pendleton's office.

All fell to praising of it, each after his own fashion, though the same young blade held with his former view that another than her conjugial had been the man in the gap, a clerk in orders, a linkboy (virtuous) or an itinerant vendor of articles needed in every household.

Stollenwerk began his international career in 1951 playing as an inside right linkman.

Garric and the noble didn't have a linkman to light their way.

More important was his role as a linkman.

The linkman stepped off to the side a bit and a gleam appeared in his eye.

As a linkman he felt at home best between defense and attack, but he was also dangerous in front of the goal.

"We're poets," the linkman in the green hat explained.

The linkman in the green cap agreed and set about spreading silverware around the cloths.

The pyramidal linkman was devouring what looked to be a loaf of rye bread.

A round sort of linkman tremendously fond of food and larks?"

He's a perfect linkman king.

Miles alerts them that the Squire, a linkman they befriended in the previous novel, has disappeared.

The big linkman's basket was loaded with loaves of bread, some long and white, some round and very dark.

The Professor nodded seriously, and Jonathan was afraid the linkman was overdoing it a bit.

'Why,' he shouts,'did the linkman put a chair in his coffin?'

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Wolfgang Linkman (né Lewis S. Flinkman; born 1957) .

Hart also tells of having been the unofficial linkman in a secret exploratory dialogue between Arafat and Shimon Peres in 1980.

He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan, the Cabinet's linkman with the secret services, but had been told that he was busy.

James Soames, the British-born liaison officer working as linkman between UNISA and the world's intelligence services, shrugged in turn.

They had, after all, their own families and celebrations to attend to at home, and they'd be several days still on the river road before they crossed over into linkman territory.

The Gaiety Theatre closed for renovations in 1902, and the last show at the old theatre was The Linkman; or, Gaiety Memories.

There was enough bread to feed a dozen people, probably twice that many, although Jonathan noted that the linkman was stuffing bread into his mouth with his .

Manger Arthur Shallcross moved Watkin to inside-left where he developed into a tricky linkman between McColl and Harry Crossthwaite.

Opposite them' sat l:rank leidel, the Associate Director of Central Intelligence in charge of military support, the linkman between Langley and the US Joint Command.