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  • When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Not even Jack D'Aintree, who had risen from errand-boy to director and snubbed him in the street only yesterday, had ever got into a newspaper headline.

    Static 2010

  • As manager of the Framheim coal and wood business, he, of course, received the title of Director, and this dignity might possibly have gone to his head if the occupation of errand-boy had not been combined with it.

    The South Pole~ Preparing for Winter 2009

  • It sounds like Donna Watts and her errand-boy Shackleford are desperate to slime an honorable man because Donna has absolutely no qualifications to enable her to win otherwise.

    Sound Politics: The Real Geoff Simpson 2006

  • Congressman JDV, the one time staunch ally and errand-boy of the president and the administration, turned enemy of the first family.

    First Family under Fire from Former Close Ally Nomadicasian 2008

  • The errand-boy next door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; today I saw him pass, and he had

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The errand-boy mentality is ordinary, the defender of liberty is seen as bizarre.

    Kirsten Anderson: Probing Ron Paul: Better Luck This Time 2008

  • When he was an errand-boy, and even in the early days of his apprenticeship, the citizen had many a time trudged to the Post - office to ask if there were any letter from poor little Joe, and had gone home again with tears in his eyes, when he found no news of his only friend.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • It is not an uncommon thing for a gentleman to be obliged to do the work of gardener, errand-boy, and groom.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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