We then inquired of the warden of this flowery plain, if he had ever remarked any difference in the number of roses which sprung up in a given period of time.

The large baking pear is still called warden in many counties.

The Apostles And the Martyrs, wrapped in mantles, Stand as wardens at the entrance, Stand as sentinels o'erhead!

On the score of bringing stubborn or careless wardens to terms through their purses, the following extract from a letter written in 1572 to the official of the archdeacon of the bishop of London is in point.

Divinities bide here, Fair Ceres, Cupid, Bacchus, those gods of all good cheer, Priapus tooquite harmless, though terrible to see Our little hardwood warden with scythe of trusty tree.

yearly to the wardens for bread and wine; "the second sorte" of t

The masked man moved slightly to one side and his clenched fist caught the warden on the point of the chin.

You see he's one of the wardens over at the State insane asylum at Merrick.

As it was sometimes hard for the authorities to prevent the churchwardens from utilizing the church for plays, so it was hard for them to keep the wardens from giving up the churchyard or outlying portions of the church structure for fairs and stall-holders.

He once fought for weeks, day and night, with a warden as to the position of a small gas-pipe, because he couldn't get his way about it.