The alguazil fled, leaving me one leg free, the other burdened by the gyve, and as he fled so fled all others, being thus taken unawares.
The alguazil of the Holy Office was in the very act of setting the gyves upon my legs when the first shot was fired, followed almost at once by a fusillade.
I was allowed to communicate with no one, and even the alguazil who guarded me was forbidden, under pain of death, to speak to me.
I warn you that an alguazil and his archers are on the look-out for you, and they intend to pay you the honour of a guard on your return to the city.
Do you observe five or six of them worrying a sort of labourer, who was introduced to their society this morning for having wounded an alguazil with a stone?
In a little while the hungry alguazilwas again on the scent, and before the day was over the unfortunate Peregil was once more dragged into the presence of the judge.
So saying, he descended the steps, followed with trembling reluctance by the alguazil and the barber.
He had hardly spoken the words, when the keen alguazil darted off, and reappeared in an instant with the mysterious box of sandal-wood.
Towards midnight the alcalde sallied forth secretly, attended by the alguazil and the meddlesome barber, all strongly armed.
The alguazil was dispatched to bring the Moor who had assisted in the incantation.
Mine host, with two or three old wiseacre comrades in brown cloaks, studied our passports in a corner of the posada, while an Alguazil took notes by the dim light of a lamp.
A lady of rank, one of his chief friends, was amongst the prisoners; and the Inquisitors sent an Alguazil to her house to demand possession of her jewels.
But when I saw the Alguazil strike him--the blow that relaxed to the secular arm--I could endure no more.
This good Alguazil can save us from more mischief in one day than we can do him good in a hundred.
The corregidor ordered the prisoner to uncover his face, but as he delayed to do so the alguazil snatched away the handkerchief.
The alguazil ordered her to put on her clothes and be off with him to prison, for allowing men and women to meet for bad purposes in her house.
On hearing this the corregidor immediately sent orders to the alguazil to bring in his prisoner, which was forthwith done.
The Breton was dismayed, the attorney interceded from motives of compassion, and prevailed on the alguazil to commute the penalty for only a hundred reals.
Nay but listen, for worse remains to be told, since I am loth to speak ill of alguazil and attorneys.
The attorney privately urged the alguazil to search Colindres' clothes, for he suspected she must have possessed herself of the fifty crowns, since it was her custom to grope in the pockets of those who took up with her company.
I will make good to him all that he would have been entitled to, and out of my own pocket too; for, come what may, the Alguazil must not be suffered to depart without satisfaction.
Now you must know that this alguazil was on intimate terms with an attorney; and the two were connected with a pair of wenches not a bit better than they ought to be, but quite the reverse.
He either did not hear me, or wished to watch the proceedings of the alguazil and his subordinates.
At first my mind misgave me that the alguazil and his myrmidons had by some means seized the Indian; but as I scrutinised the dark forms which appeared in the cold grey light of the morning, I could not distinguish his among them.
But the dog would not be quiet, neither was the alguazil satisfied; and at last Jose was obliged to say that he would go and ask my father for the key.
His servants resisted his arrest and in the fray the alguazil of the Inquisition was killed.
With rancor unsatisfied, when Henry died, in 1379, and his son Juan I came to Burgos to be crowned, they obtained from him an order to his alguazil to put to death a mischief-making Jew whom they would designate.
Juan was greatly angered; thealguazil was punished with the loss of a hand, the judge of the Judería of Burgos was put to death and the Jews of Castile were deprived of jurisdiction over the lives of their fellows.
The large salary of the alguazil arose from his bearing the charges of the prisons.
In 1702 the Valencia tribunal refused even to join in a competencia over a case in which it entertained a suit brought to collect the interest on a censo, by the widow of an alguazil mayor as guardian of her children.
And he handed him, one after the other, the garments which the alguazilhad taken off the other prisoner.
Show his Senoria a light," cried the alguazil gravely; "and may his dying hour be as easy as that of this unfortunate.
I was just slipping the village the back way, when an alguazil coming along made it necessary for me to climb up here and hide myself.
The man, alguazil or not, neither saw him nor suspected his being there, but walked tranquilly on.
The alguazilwill tear the handkerchief off his head, and he will be mulcted, moreover, in a fine.
Meanwhile the alguazil of the tribunal has disposed an ancient sofa in the shadow of the great Gothic portal and marked off a space before it with a railing.
It will be remembered that the Duke of Medinaceli was alguazil mayor of the Madrid tribunal, and as such was drawing a yearly stipend of a thousand reales.
This could not be evaded and the officials of the Justicia were sent to the prison with orders to deliver Pérez to the alguazil of the tribunal.
Suddenly a stranger appeared, with the vara of an alguazil of the Inquisition, who sought out two familiars and commanded them to assist him in making an arrest.
The Duke of Medinaceli, as alguazil mayor of the Madrid tribunal, was still drawing his yearly stipend of a thousand reales and personally signing monthly receipts.
I waited there, on my entry, while the gaoler examined my pass; and I noted that the alguazil was armed.
But there is a chamber on one side of the door, overlooking the passage, where, when I entered, there was an alguazil on guard.
A crowd collected and from words soon came to blows; the alguazil was slain with a paving-stone, and his companion escaped only by a Moorish woman conveying him away and hiding him under a bed.
The city became quiet; those who had slain the alguazil were surrendered, and four of them were hanged; the Moors cast aside their arms and returned to work.
With this the tribunal had nothing to do, except that a secretary and alguazil were present to certify and report as to the execution of the sentences.
The alguazil beseeches the key of the toril from the Governor, receives it, turns it in the lock; and as the bull with dazed vision enters into the sunshine at one gate, he disappears at an amble through another.
Hearing that Roldan was within five leagues of San Domingo with his band, he sent Pedro Fernandez Coronal, who had been appointed by the sovereigns alguazil mayor of the island, to exhort him to obedience, promising him oblivion of the past.
With this expedition sailed Don Alonzo Maldonado, appointed as alguazil mayor, or chief justice, in place of Roldan, who was to be sent to Spain.
He ordered that they should be brought up to him to the top of the fortress, where, having put a few questions to them, as a matter of form, he gave them in charge to an alguazil named Juan de Espinosa.
Diego Alguazil and the Turkish captains were too well known as enjoying the confidence of Aben-Humeya to meet with any opposition to their entrance into the town.
This letter was despatched by a courier, who was speedily followed by Alguazil and a hundred soldiers, as the cunning conspirator desired to present himself before Aben-Aboo without leaving him time for consideration.
Diego Alguazil saw that his scheme was working well.
In this she perfectly succeeded; and the enamoured prince intimated his desire to Alguazil that he would resign to him the possession of his mistress.
Alguazil declared that he had come in consequence of certain instructions he had received from the king, of too atrocious a nature for him to execute.
The young man regarded the Alguazil with an anxious countenance; and then, desiring his companions to lead the way towards Tezcuco, followed, at a little distance, with Villafana.
His first thought was to secure this dreadful list, and calling to the guards about the prison, arrest the Alguazil upon the spot.
So saying, theAlguazil conducted the Mexican away.
But at the very moment when he had given up all hope, and was commending his soul to his Maker, the savage and exulting laugh with which the Alguazilaimed at his throat, was changed to an exclamation of alarm and pain.
While Villafana held forth in these extraordinary terms, Juan, shocked into composure, became aware that the wine, which the Alguazil plied with characteristic infatuation, had already made serious inroads upon his brain.
On reaching the cabin, the alcaid and his alguazil recognized in the fugitive the chief of all the brigands in the country.
Wounds had been given on both sides, and, if I recollect right, one alguazil was left dead on the plain.
All this being settled, an alguazil or messenger was dispatched after Columbus, with orders from the queen for his return.
The alguazil rode beneath the prince's box for the key of the cell of the bulls, which the prince threw; but in catching it the alguazil displayed such bad horsemanship, that the crowd were convulsed with laughter.
The alguazil ought to catch the key in his hat, but seldom does.
After half an hour, an alguaziland the directorcillo arrived with two cuadrilleros, who took the body down and placed it on a stretcher.
An alguazilwas looking after these, and when he came forward to attend to them the crowd shouted at him and whistled, "There he is!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alguazil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
