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  • Page 66 who from the days when he was a poor errand-lad had had no one to trust to but himself, yet had managed always to help himself, ay, and others too -- Hilary's stern sense of justice contrasted him with the graceful young man who sat opposite to him, so much his inferior, and so much his debtor.

    Mistress and Maid. A Household Story. 1864

  • For the last four days his heart had been yearning to go to Birmingham, but had yearned in vain; and now his master was sending him about town as though he were an errand-lad.

    Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848

  • I am not an errand-lad, "said Aubrey, and laughed more merrily than ever.

    It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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