errand quotes

Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterwards send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any money it 'ud fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Mrs Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

And whenThyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made oneöturn down an empty glass!

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza 75. In the1879 edition this was changed to'And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass†'.

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