liniment
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They could boast of seeing "linkmen"* going once more about London town, bearing torches before the motorcars and persons of the great.
From Time Magazine Archive
A century ago it was a scene of splendor, with linkmen lighting theatergoers � including the young Victoria and her mother � across the undrained Lambeth marshes, where footpads lurked.
From Time Magazine Archive
And therefore, in order to bury the deceased, great carts passed through the streets after sunset, attended by linkmen and preceded by a bellman crying in weird and solemn tones, "Bring out your dead."
From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)
Nay, the very linkmen outside got hold of it, and compared the party to a funeral out of mourning, with none of the company remembered in the will.
From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles
And this was so thick that late fashionables, riding home in their grand carriages, were preceded each carriage by a pair of linkmen.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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