The principal officers were the "reeve" or head-man, the "beadle" or messenger, and the "tithing-man" or petty constable.

The same schoolmaster uses seven synonyms in describing the "fashion" of speech of the ignorant constable, "undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or, rather unlettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed, fashion."

DOGBERRY AND VERGES, two ignorant conceited constables, who greatly mutilate their words.

He saw Aurora and Clotilde Nancanou, with anguished faces, offering woman's pleadings to deaf constables.

The delighted constable determined to make of the child's baptism a great and striking event; and he begged the king to come and be godfather, with the dowager Duchess of Bourbon as godmother.

So we were given to understand by very wide-awake sentries with bayonets, policemen, and enthusiastic special constables.

In the end they were both killedone by his own handbut not until they had murdered a gallant constable and a poor little child and injured in all, twenty-two persons.

Move him out of the crowd, Moloney;' and a gigantic constable pounced on me with a broad grin, snatched the barrow-handles out of my hands, and started off at a trot that made the effigies rock in the most alarming manner.

Fa'bius (The French), Anne, duc de Montmorency, grand-constable of France (1493-1567).

A young lady fell in love with a handsome constable.

A squad of fifty helmeted constables marched to the bridge, and marked time.

The earliest historical documents that are known concerning the castle, mention the displacing of Othomarus de Knivet, its hereditary constable, for being in arms against the Conqueror.

She was walking unconcernedly from one of George Russell's weekly gatherings, when five husky constables blocked the bridge road and hurried her off to jail.

Other officers were the chamberlain or treasurer, seven inferior constables, a sergeant-at-arms, and a clerk of the market, who inspected weights and measures, and punished delinquencies in the use of them.

We compare it with the intelligent constable's statement made between March 3 and March 8, that is, immediately after the events, and reported in the local paper of March 9.

The Heldenbuch. EL'BOW, a well-meaning but loutish constable.

The Heldenbuch. EL'BOW, a well-meaning but loutish constable.

The examination which took place was just the occasion for Sheridan's fun to display itself on, and pretending to turn informer, he succeeded in bewildering the unfortunate parochial constable, who conducted it, till the arrival of the magistrate, whose duty was to deliver his friends from durance vile.

" "I've merely got a bit of an idea that it's a wedding-ring, not a brooch, Mrs. Driver is after," said the farmer to the perplexed constable.

Dawson Bobbs, the ponderous constable, went to the trouble to telephone Mr. Cicero Throgmartin, for whom Tump was working, cautioning Throgmartin to make sure that Tump Pack was in the sleeping-shack every night, as he might get wind of the wedding and take a notion to bolt and stop it.

They have easily accomplished what a few years ago six stalwart British constables could scarcely do and have removed the gigantic Mr. FLAVIN from his emerald bench.

"You are a sworn constable?" "I be, sir.

The examination which took place was just the occasion for Sheridan's fun to display itself on, and pretending to turn informer, he succeeded in bewildering the unfortunate parochial constable, who conducted it, till the arrival of the magistrate, whose duty was to deliver his friends from durance vile.

That of the unhappy constable of Castille was surrounded by four knights of Santiago, wrapped in the mantle of their Order, seeming to keep guard over their grand master, who lay buried without his head in the stone sarcophagus, bordered with Gothic mouldings.

"Conver" gasped the astonished constable.