pagehood

Holy Saints! she holds up her riding-rod as if she would lay it about some of their ears, that stand most in her way — by the hand of my father! she bears herself like the very model of pagehood. —

The Abbot 2008

“It is not so, an it please your pagehood,” said the leech.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

But all could ride, fence, tilt, play at cards, and carve extremely well; for to these accomplishments many years of pagehood and squirehood were given.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature, and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Countess and her ladies.

Men of Iron 1891

Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood.

Men of Iron 1891

Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

So I grew up to the years of pagehood, which came early with me, and forth I went on my first foray with the rest of them.

The Lances of Lynwood Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"It is not so, an it please your pagehood," said the leech.

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

Douglas — I have been his henchman, and can vouch for it — did not in his pagehood desire such food and lodging as, in the present day, will hardly satisfy such a lad as your friend Charles.”

Castle Dangerous 2008