Squire is the protecting power, but his factotum is the active and busy agent. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
He was greatly liked, and the late Sir George Barlow, a landed proprietor of the neighbourhood, made him a kind of factotum on his estate. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men] Reference
"factotum," to find out what the Opposition was going to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2] Reference
Sigr Ramiro del Orca, Governor; he is the factotum. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
We asked our factotum what was the matter with her. From Wordnik.com. [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference
William, our factotum, is a thoughtful and kind boy. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Through her factotum, the Princess continued her message. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
The old woman was the nurse, and the black man their factotum. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The celestial, who was cook, washman and general factotum on the. From Wordnik.com. [Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains] Reference
This was the gardener and general factotum at Colonel Van Dyne's. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
We found him in his library in consultation with his factotum Jahn. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
When Octavius Buzzby, the factotum at Champ-au-Haut and twin of Augustus. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The face of Champ-au-Haut's factotum worked strangely before he made answer. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Why was he able to dominate her in this way that she became essentially his factotum?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2009] Reference
Too expected suspenders, sadness of a heartless champion factotum, you look ghasty-geist. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
This morning when the boys came to get their letters the general factotum said excitedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life] Reference
"Higgs," he called, and his faithful servant and general factotum came out of the pantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
"Ef I had dem sticks o 'legs, dey'd do berrer work nor twirlin' me like I was a factotum.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
He was his factotum, his grunt, and he already owed Reinhold for even being on the expedition. From Wordnik.com. [Brotherhood of the Mountain] Reference
She knows that her fiance, the Count's barber and factotum, Figaro, will also be spying on her. From Wordnik.com. [Benita Valente: An Exquisitely Pure, Operatic Voice] Reference
The interpreter, who seemed to be general factotum to Serano, shook him roughly by the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference
"Your majesty's faithful trumpeter, grand vizier, and factotum is alive and hearty," said Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
Rudd was general factotum -- coachman, gardener, footman, -- and usually valeted his young master. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
In short, by these means, she won her way gradually in the community, until she came to be the general factotum. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
M'Allister, our engineer and general factotum in all mechanical matters -- a typical specimen of a Scotch engineer. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
Mrs. G----, our factotum, has a holiday, and goes over with some of the other labourers to spend the day at the other farm. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
American military attaché, I got hold of my invaluable Wang, interpreter, cook, and general factotum in one, and faithfullest of. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Abu Bakir, our driver and factotum, carried a large carpet shoulder bag that had belonged to his father and grandfather before him. From Wordnik.com. [Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert] Reference
Our excellent factotum, Sabz Ali, awaited us with a capacious landau, and informed us that the heavy baggage had gone on in the ekkas. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
The little Bishop was general religious factotum in his own village, and especially among those who were in any way connected with Salem. From Wordnik.com. [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference
He lived secluded from society; his factotum and agent being an Italian valet, who was perfectly aware of the ample means of his master. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
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