"Placeman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and sigh'd. The Lady own'd that she was loth to part, But praised the damsel for her gentle heart, Her pleasing person, and her blooming health, But ended thus, "Her virtue is her wealth." "Then is she rich!" he cried with lively air; "But whence, so please you, came a lass so fair?" "A placeman's child was Anna, one who died And left a widow by afflictions tried; She to support her infant daughter strove, But early left the object of her love: Her youth, her beauty, and her orphan state Gave a kind countess interest in her fate: With her she ...
— Tales • George Crabbe
... resentment against his brother was but short-lived; yet his dislike to the Whig and the placeman, though unable to stimulate him to resume any active measures prejudicial to Richard's interest, in the succession to the family estate, continued to maintain the coldness between them. Richard knew enough of the world, and of his brother's temper, to believe ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... yourself; and kill more 'French dragons,' and become a great commander. And our mother will talk of her son the Captain, the Colonel, the General, and have his picture painted with all his stars and epaulets, when poor I shall be but a dawdling poetaster, or, if we may hope for the best, a snug placeman, with a little box at Richmond or Kew, and a half-score of little picaninnies, that will come and bob curtseys at the garden-gate when their uncle the General rides up on his great charger, with his aide-de-camp's pockets filled with gingerbread for the nephews and nieces. 'Tis for you to brandish ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray |
