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Sentence Examples
| 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 led by their officers, the town clerk, borough beadle Alan Johnson and mace bearers Tony Saunders and Derek Smith. |
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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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| There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle. |
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| Stipends in kind were paid to 4 harrowers, 2 oxherds, a carter, cowman, gardener, beadle, and reeve. |
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| One night the boys locked the Maycomb County beadle in the courthouse outhouse. |
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| In the Anglican church a beadle is appointed to assist the minister and maintain order. |
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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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| Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. |
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| Mr Beadle said the market was surprisingly being hampered by a lack of listings. |
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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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| In April 2008 Peter Beadle was sacked as club manager, and was replaced by Dean Holdsworth. |
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| This is a two volume work with detailed information and the publishers Beadle and Adams, lists of titles and authorial biographies. |
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| And if a bloke doesn't give his girlfriend the Jeremy Beadle he might get into her Alan Whickers.How many teenagers have heard of Alan Whicker or Jeremy Beadle? |
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| A MUSIC and dance teacher who staged wind-ups with arch prankster Jeremy Beadle has literally played a part in the nation's second favourite stitch-up. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The beadle of to-day is in most respects changed, for the worse, from the bellman of old. |
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| He was ordered to take it off, and when he refused, it was removed by a beadle. |
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| Then skirting a big beadle in blue, policemen, and loungers, I reached the box-office. |
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| For bedel or bedell is an obsolete form of beadle retained in the ancient corporations of Oxford and Cambridge. |
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| I roused my energies, and the next time the wily beadle summoned me, I went. |
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| A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne. |
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| As to beadle, that I needn't say was wholly out of the question. |
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| They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously. |
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| By and by the beadle comes out, once more intensifying the sensation, which has rather languished in the interval. |
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| Now the Cinque Ports are partially or somehow under the jurisdiction of a sort of policeman or beadle, called a Lord Warden. |
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| Church, parson, clerk, beadle, glass-coach, bells, breakfast, bride-cake, favours, marrow-bones, cleavers, and all the rest of the tomfoolery. |
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| Provision was also made for Mr. gager as engineer, and Mr. Penn as beadle. |
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| We have often seen each other,' said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, 'when I have been at church here. |
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| Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him. |
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| I wager my head against a dipper that you will have opened the door, rescued the girl, and despoiled the chief altar before a single beadle is awake. |
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| I laughed at the demise of the turncock, the Foreigner, the Beadle, and even the baby. |
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| Also the chimney on fire, the parish engine, and perjury on the part of the Beadle. |
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| Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants, always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy exasperating the public. |
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