The beadle of this church has the strongest, if not the longest, official wand in the town, and he is very modest, blushing occasionally, while carrying it.

Immediately behind him, came the beadle in vestments and a long flaxen wig ill-combed, put on all awry, making room with his staff and hitting the people if they would not leave off praying and get out of the way.

My father was beadle at St. Eprive's and my mother the Curé's housekeeper.

The precaution is carried so far, that, when no positive information is given as to means of subsistence, the letter of credit must be delivered into the hands of the beadle as security.

In the town hall are shown the tattered flags carried by the warriors of Uri in the early battles of the Confederation, the mace and sword of state which are borne by the beadles to the Landsgemeinde.

My heart is in my mouth; my mouth is in my hand; my hand threatens vengeance against the miller, as it were a beadle with a whip in his hand, triumphing o'er a beggar's back! SHO.

224, n. 1; beadle within him, the, iii. 81; bear, a, Boswell's bear, ii. 269, n. i; v. 39, n. 4; dancing bear, ii. 66; Gibbon's sarcasm, ii. 348: He-bear, iv. 113, n. 2; 'like a word in a catch,' ii.