How To Use Serjeant In A Sentence
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Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horse-guards.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Time went on, a general election was pending, and late one evening the dialler was driven up to Mr. Serjeantson's door by a neighbour, who had fetched him out of a public-house, and urged the squire to keep him, or he would vote wrong.
The Book of Sun-Dials
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In firing by grand divisions, the centre officer falls back, on the preparative, into the fourth rank, and is replaced by the covering serjeant.
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In Chester the palatine earl had a master serjeant of the Peace.
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Ferre held the serjeanty of the dies cuneorum in the Exchange of London (CCR
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
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And it is further Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to each serjeant and private soldier as aforesaid, for wages, every callendar month dur - ing their continuance in said service, the following sums respec - tively, viz. to each serjeant, the sum of thirty pounds per month; to each matross, the sum of twenty seven pounds per month.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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-- Rowland le Sarcere held one hundred and ten acres of land in Hemingston by serjeanty; for which, on Christmas day every year, before our sovereign lord the King of England, he should perform altogether, and at once, a leap, puff up his cheeks, therewith making a sound, and let a crack.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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The pack pony bearing their baggage was a hard-mouthed, contrary beast and occasionally, her father's serjeant-at-arms, had to yank on the lead rein to remind it who was master.
The Falcons of Montabard
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Colum and his small party dismounted, the Irishman throwing the reins of his horse at the serjeant.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The exotically-titled serjeant at arms - leader of the men who wear black coat-tails and tights, and responsible for security - could well fall on his sword.
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Rather like prefects in a well-run school, or serjeant-majors in the army, they find out what the masters/officers cannot.
The Spectator's Notes
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Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure, and has the gift of reading.
St. Patrick's day, or, the scheming lieutenant : a farce in one act
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We will not by reason of any small serjeanty which any one may hold of us by the service of rendering to us knives, arrows, or the like, have wardship of his heir of the land which he holds of another lord by knight's service.
The Magna Carta
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It depicts a scene of purposeful activity - farriers shoeing; grooms tending huge chargers; a vet and orderly serjeant inspecting; men sweeping; cavalrymen feeding horses.
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The exotically-titled serjeant at arms - leader of the men who wear black coat-tails and tights, and responsible for security - could well fall on his sword.
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Hodge knew Serjeant Gaythorn, and knew that the poor man's wife had been shot dead in the flight from Naseby; but he demurred at the notion of encumbering himself with the child when he went into the town.
Under the Storm
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Apparently deputy serjeant at arms ditched his tights and mace to deliver the summons to wapping. he had to take the tube after allThu Jul 14 14:48:29 via web Cathy Newman cathynewman
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The following was the procession of the 3d J Regt on the aforesaid day first one serjeant drest in an
A Renegade History of the United States
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The North Gate was in the charge of the citizens; the others were held by persons who had that office by serjeanty under the Earls of Chester, and were entitled to certain tolls, which, with the custody of the gates, were frequently purchased by the Corporation.
Vanishing England
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He had been thirty-one years a soldier, twelve times a corporal, nine times a serjeant; but an unfortunate attachment to the bottle always returned him into the ranks.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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But the head nurseship of a hospital serjeant is the more essential, the more important, the more inexperienced the nurses.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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Sent the serjeant after Bloore on one of the horses; he rode back as far as Sankaree without seeing him, and concluded he had lost the path.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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The following was the procession of the 3d J Regt on the aforesaid day first one serjeant drest in an
A Renegade History of the United States
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Utter and Inner Barr; and they led by the _Master of the Revells_: and one of the Gentlemen of the Utter Barr are chosen to sing a song to the Judges, Serjeants, or Masters of the Bench; which is usually performed; and in default thereof, there may be an amerciament.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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A few months before the Great Fire of London, in which old St. Paul's was consumed with its parvise and pillars, Dugdale wrote: "At St. Paul's each lawyer and serjeant at his pillar heard his client's cause and took notes thereof upon his knee, as they do at Guildhall at this day.
The Customs of Old England
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As all those who held direct of the crown by military service (for those who held "by serjeanty" appear to have been classed apart), from earls downwards, were alike "barons," the great difference in their position and importance must have led, from an early date, to their being roughly divided into "greater" and "lesser" barons, and indeed, under Henry II., the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ already distinguishes their holdings as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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At last, calling the serjeant aside, I asked him, 'If I was too old to be accepted in place of my son?'
The Man of Feeling
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I've also used pen nibs - not the ‘Serjeant-Major,’ which is too dry, but softer nibs, like the ‘J.’
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Imagine to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horseguards. ...
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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Wigorn. _ (which was their pleasant way of saying that he lived in Worcestershire) held his manor by serjeanty of the
The Book-Hunter at Home
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We will not have the custody of an heir, nor of any land which he holds of another by knight's service, by reason of any petty serjeanty [38] by which he holds of us, by the service of paying a knife, an arrow, or the like.
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
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After soe many yeares studdy and being thus Entred they are Called to ye barr – yt is to plead as Councellors and Barristers in these Courts, and out of such that have been thus Barristers many yeares they Commence serjeants, and are made in this manner the first day of a terme.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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And it wasn't above a week afterward that the old Betsy cometh back and saith, 'You'd best have let me call mun back when I told' ee '; and then she told me that a serjeant was come to Ashacombe and that Jan was listed for a sojer and was agone.
The Drummer's Coat
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They were immediately challenged by a royal serjeant who had an ugly bruise under his right eye and a suppurating cut on his left hand.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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This was probably the meaning of the term primarily; but as early as the reign of Edward I, it was employed to denote counsel below the state and degree of serjeant at law; one degree corresponding to that of bachelor, and the other to that of doctor, in the universities (Pearce's History of the Inns of Court, 28).
An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition
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Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it.
Amelia — Complete
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The following was the procession of the 3d J Regt on the aforesaid day first one serjeant drest in an
A Renegade History of the United States
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He held it 'in fee, in serjeanty, by finding for our lord the King, in his army in Wales, and elsewhere in England, whensoever war should happen, one man with a horse caparisoned or armed for war at his proper costs for forty days to abide in the war aforesaid.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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I suspected that the serjeant might have rode past him asleep under the tree; I therefore got three volunteers to go with me, and look for him.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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He was over sixty years of age; had been eminent for some time in his profession; and had recently been one of a group of lawyers raised to the serjeantcy, with a view to their promotion to the Bench.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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For the serjeant was a rising man, and Lady Demolines was not exactly progressing in the world.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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It was at the parvise, or porch, of old St. Paul's, or at their allotted pillars, that Serjeants met their clients for consultation.
The Customs of Old England
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Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise – cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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For my own part, I am sure I should not have suffered any fellows to include themselves into gentlemens company; but I thoft he had been an officer himself, till the serjeant told me he was but a recruit.
XIII. Containing the Great Address of the Landlady. Book VII
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This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
