beadle

How To Use beadle In A Sentence

• And his beadle, your lordship," added the host, and the under-strapper inside the greatcoat saluted the Colonel with a flourish of his tipstaff. The Yeoman Adventurer
• Mr Beadle said the market was surprisingly being hampered by a lack of listings.
• They were in the custody of the court beadle who lived some distance away.
• It was not just a bit of beadledom from the top of the masthead; it was a permission to unleash the counterrevolutionary spirit against the sudden burst of enthusiasm for Mr. Zell’s program. Battle Lines Are Drawn at <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>
• Discreet chorales endorse the beadle, who gathers cash on a wooden plate.
• The beadle is the only sober man in the composition except the pawnbroker, and he is mightily indifferent to the orphan-child crying beside its parent's coffin. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
• If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
• Then the Suisse, in his dusty beadle 's uniform, threw open the great doors and the congregation was on the move. DISPLACED PERSON
• (Wisla) I prowled about among the crypts with a curious specimen of beadledom who ran off long unintelligible histories in atrocious Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
• Division, Beadle and Ephrussi decided to pursue an early discovery by Sturtevant; namely, that a diffusible substance must be involved in the synthesis of the brown eye pigment of Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy