"Backstairs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lie! It was a lie! Mrs. Winnie had never said such a thing! He would never believe it—it was a nasty piece of backstairs gossip! ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... of learning and a writer of high repute. His fine gifts of subtle thought and ready energy, his commanding influence and skilful policy, marked him out for a glorious work in history, and nothing but his own falseness degraded him to be the greatest living master of backstairs intrigue. If Athanasius is the Demosthenes of the Nicene age, Acacius will be its AEschines. He had found his account in abandoning conservatism for pure Arianism, and was now preparing to complete his victory by a new treachery ...
— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin
... graver expression than his wife had ever seen there. "This is my work, and it is none of yours. I positively forbid you to stir out of this room. I shall be very careful, and you need have no concern for me. I shall go down the backstairs and around by the porch, and peep in through the library window first. The moonlight will be sufficient to enable me to see ...
— Paste Jewels • John Kendrick Bangs
... maneuvering &c v.; temporization; circumvention. chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery^; concealment &c 528; guile, doubling, duplicity &c (falsehood) 544; foul play. diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery, backstairs influence. art, artifice; device, machination; plot &c (plan) 626; maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery &c (deception) 545; ruse, ruse de guerre [Fr.]; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... go very soon. Excuse the liberty, Professor, but you might have your boots blacked. There is a little cad down the backstairs who does it." ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford |
