Errands

Examples

• The waiter was despatched on both errands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• One of the errands, my dear, which brings me here is to bid you good-bye, I began. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now the bell had been ringing all the morning, as workmen, or servantsor _coiffeurs_, or _tailleuses_, went and came on their several errands. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Goes on errands fast asleep, and snores as he waits at table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On both of which errands, quick messengers depart. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They promised implicit obedience, and departed with alacrity on their different errands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I've always despised _it_, and myself for it,--so now, Tom, wipe up your eyes, and go about your errands. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bear gently, Ocean’s carrier dove, Thy errands to and fro! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had business at the Crown about his hay, and a great many errands for Mrs. Weston at Ford's, but he need not hurry any body else. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I told Mother I'd do the errands, and I haven't, said Jo decidedly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I will not have their time taken up with our errands. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• After leaving the bank, Mr. Luker had visited various parts of London on business errands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The firm always sent Dallas on such errands. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Here's the place for my errands. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then tea must be got, errands done, and one or two necessary bits of sewing neglected until the last minute. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Are there any people here who run on errands, and so forth? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So this old philanthropist used to make her equal run of her errands, execute her millinery, and read her to sleep with French novels, every night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Accordingly, I was employed in cutting the wick for the candles, filling the moulds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of errands, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Fanny, as she passed in and out of the room occasionally, intent on housemaid errands, perceived that her young mistress sat very still. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He also ran errands for the ward and in his spare time made me a cigarette lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle cartridge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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