How To Use Beadle In A Sentence
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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
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Mr Beadle said the market was surprisingly being hampered by a lack of listings.
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They were in the custody of the court beadle who lived some distance away.
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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>
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Discreet chorales endorse the beadle, who gathers cash on a wooden plate.
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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
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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
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Then the Suisse, in his dusty beadle 's uniform, threw open the great doors and the congregation was on the move.
DISPLACED PERSON
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(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
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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
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The moment the troop had ridden off, the duumvir nodded to his beadles.
The Grass Crown
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Burlington Arcade has these ‘watchmen’ called beadles, and Princes Arcade runs between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street and has lots of teeny dinky little shops.
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If a book were not restricted to the simplest tales, or pleasing fiction ending in virtue rewarded and vice punished, that was enough; the propriety of beadledom was at once ready to bray.
The Cathedral
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At the time I speak of Knox was the Recorder of that important borough, and was possessed of all the dignity which so enhances a great officer in the eyes of the public, whether he be the most modest of beadles in beadledom, or the highest Recorder in Christendom.
The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins
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Today, however, fog wreathed the tiny islet, and covered the sand and pebbles at his feet with beadlets of moisture.
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Beggars fear him more than the justice, and as much as the whip-stock, whom he delivers over to his subordinate magistrates, the bridewell-man, and the beadle.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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The Presbytery appoints the beadle of the parish to summond him pro secundo.
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He states that he remembers an old beadle of the church which was called "Haddo's Hole," and sometimes the "Little Kirk," in Edinburgh, whose son occasionally officiated as precentor.
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Dick only began by playing pitch-and-toss on a tombstone: playing fair, for what we know: and even for that sin he was promptly caned by the beadle.
Roundabout Papers
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Like their peers around Europe, many burghers continued to give alms to ‘undeserving’ beggars on the street, and some interfered when beadles arrested beggars.
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The beadle is a very grand personage, and his appearance sufficiently indicates this fact.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
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Other brewers 'draymen became obstreperous too, one calling the beadle that stopped him "a rogue" and another vowing that if he knew the beadle "he would have a touch with him at quarterstaff.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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This ‘musical thriller’ can be a large-scale, sceptical swoop on the great wen, taking in everyone from beggar to beadle.
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The principal officers were the "reeve" or head-man, the "beadle" or messenger, and the "tithing-man" or petty constable.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
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At the same meeting new ballival elections were held (September being a common month for towns to hold elections) and the incumbents were re-elected; beadles and the collectors of tolls were also elected.
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Beadle:a minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.
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The beadle, a parish officer responsible for persuading householders to do their duty as jurors at such inquests, has assembled 12 men.
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Also, they ordain that there be two beadles in the borough, sworn to make all attachments and distraints, and carry out all orders from bailiffs, coroners and capital portmen which ought to be done in the borough.
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We also hear of a beadle in 1389 (this may have been when the office was created), a nightwatchman in 1406, and a clerk may be inferred from the recording of the electoral courts; however, these officers were appointed, not elected.
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One night they resisted arrest by Maycomb County's beadle and locked him in the courthouse outhouse.
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They would not only have one member, but would have half the aldermen, half the town-councillors, half the mayor, half the patronage in beadles, bell-ringers and bumbledom in general.
Ralph the Heir
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This idea is expressed by the classic slogan of Beadle: "one gene - one enzyme", or in the more sophisticated but cumbersome terminology of today: "one cistron - one polypeptide chain".
Francis Crick - Nobel Lecture
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Collaborating with the biochemist Edward Tatum at Stanford University in California, Beadle discovered that genes carried instructions to build proteins—complex, multidimensional macromolecules that were the workhorses of the cell.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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I once ventured to tell him that even a beadle was a sacred being in his eyes, and he did not deny the soft impeachment.
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences
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Corporation, preceded by Sword-bearer, Beadles, and Blue Coat School boys, going in procession from one city boundary-stone to another, across the meadows and the river, or over hedges and gardens, or anything else to which the perambulated border-line took them.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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In this piece of cloth is carried a box containing a stuff to chew called beadle nut.
A Soldier in the Philippines
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You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show.
Friends in Council — First Series
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In its turn beadledom calculates the sum the dead man brings in, and even the priest, wearied with the prayers of which he has read so many, and needing his breakfast, prays mechanically from the lips outward, while the assistants are in a hurry that the mass to which they have not listened should come to an end, that they may shake hands with the relations, and leave the dead.
En Route
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Why aye lads, give wor Cheryl a hand, like.7 Angry Birds – the indie rock versionTwee perfection.8 Banned Belgian dating adJust bizarre.9 Shifting furniture – the Russian wayFake as hell but very Beadle's About which we are obviously in favour of.10 Audi A1 advertWould you buy a car from a rabbit?
Viral Video Chart: Street dance, kitten, Chinese grandma does Michael Jackson
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Discreet chorales endorse the beadle, who gathers cash on a wooden plate.
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This is done to create an awe and respect towards him in the eye of the vulgar; but lest it should elevate him too much in his own opinion, in order to his humiliation he receives every evening in private, from a kind of beadle, a gentle kick on his posteriors; besides which he wears a ring in his nose, somewhat resembling that we ring our pigs with, and a chain round his neck not unlike that worn by our aldermen; both which I suppose to be emblematical, but heard not the reasons of either assigned.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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Oops - Forgot that I spoke to jeremy beadle on the old "Talk Radio" back in 1994!
Archive 2009-04-01
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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed henpeckery.
Oliver Twist
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Other authors were shackled by two dicta of contemporary thinking among evolutionary biologists, of which Beadle and Emerson were either unaware or unpersuaded.
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The beadle was the next person who came into my head.
The Queen of Hearts
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A beadle was appointed to remove drunk and disorderly people from the streets, particularly on Sundays and he acted as an official presence to maintain order in the parish.
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There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle.
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The Beadle (leader) commands "Gentlemen raise your tartans".
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If it is a clear, cold night, the clicking of their wooden shoes may be heard for some time; but if it is damp weather, the sound is stifled, and after a few moments the faint echo of an "adieu" or Christmas greeting is all that can be heard around the church as the beadle closes it.
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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Beadle and Ephrussi designed at Caltech a set of experiments, involving transplantation of larval imaginal eye discs, to study the vermilion-plus hormone, as they called the diffusible substance.
Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy
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They were led by their officers, town clerk Graham Gittins, borough beadle Alfie Johnson and mace bearers Tony Sansom and Derek Smithers.
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They were at first five in number, but afterwards increased to ten; they had no external mark of dignity, except a kind of beadle, called
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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Beadle:a minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.
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The "beadle" group of names has been confused with
The Romance of Names
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One night the boys locked the Maycomb County beadle in the courthouse outhouse.
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Yet Oliver did want more; he knew what would land in his plate, if the beadle consented to his request, but he asked anyway.
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Discreet chorales endorse the beadle, who gathers cash on a wooden plate.
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She knows that this assumption of spiritual beadledom is mere affectation, and that other minds have as much right to their own boundary lines as she claims for herself; but it seems to her pretty to assume that woman generally is the consecrated beadle of thought and morality, and that she, of all women, is most specially consecrated.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.
Ulysses
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Thus "the beadle whipped the beggar," in prolix language might be expressed, the beadle with a whip struck in time past the beggar.
Note XIV
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Meanwhile in Scotland, the old-beadle died and his son succeeded him, eking out a modest living by selling tea and tobacco.
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The crown was the usual "berretta" (night-cap) of open work; the sceptre, a drum-major's staff; the robes, a "parochial" beadle's coat of scarlet cloth, edged with tinsel gold lace.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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The verbal announcement of auctions by beadles, often accompanied by bells and drums, was common in both town and country.
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Constable, and in fact it was the day duty which embraced the peculiar dignity of beadledom.
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
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A very beadle to a humorous sigh.
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The Presbytery appoints the beadle of the parish to summond him pro secundo.
