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.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^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 oneturn down an empty glass!

- Edward Fitzgerald
  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†'.