flunkeydom

The coachman was fat and florid, the footman a particularly fine specimen of flunkeydom, and their faces, as the light of my lamps fell upon them -- they could not speak, for they were both gagged as well as bound -- were so convulsed with terror, that I could see they did not look upon me as a friend.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom.

A Student in Arms Second Series Donald Hankey

For sheer ecstasy of flunkeydom "Jenkins" was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, but at least he was capable of recognizing native talent, as may be gleaned from his notice of Semiramide in English in the winter of 1842: --

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

In my live character of Gaston de Nérac I command the respect of flunkeydom.

The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card.

The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkeydom and The

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

At last it struck me, and Mackaye too, who, however he hated flunkeydom, never overlooked an act of discourtesy, that it would be right for me to call upon the dean, and thank him formally for all the real kindness he had shown me.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

'I wonder if this sort of flunkeydom be good for a man,' muttered Atlee to himself as he sprang down the stairs.

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

The "mountainous flunkeydom" at Royal levées is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil; Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use (A the phrase, "the dense mass of the nobility and gentry" at one of Lady Derby's receptions; while he applauds the Queen for setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921