house boy
Example Sentences
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Waking suddenly in the night, he summoned the house boy who roused the Baron's family.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the house boy who helped him off with his shoes the courtly Tanaka bade goodnight with disarming cheerfulness, eased his rheumatic limbs into bed, fell immediately and heavily to sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fuselage, 11 ft. wide, seats 33 daytime passengers, has berths for 16, reclining chairs for nine night travelers, accommodation for three flying officers, hostess and Filipino house boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But if their house was destroyed —” “They didn’ keep their gold in the house, boy!
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
I spoke of the instinct for the crowd in the tenement house boy as evidence that the slum had got its grip on him.
From A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
