Mr. Claypole, without making any further change in his position than suffering his legs to reach the ground, gazed at the beadle in drunken terror.
Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they?
The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, 'I inwented it.
Mr. Sowerberry, looking after the beadle as he strode down the street.
With these words, the beadle strode, with a lofty and gloomy air, from the undertaker's premises.
Peppermint,' exclaimed Mrs. Corney, in a faint voice, smiling gently on the beadle as she spoke.
Mrs. Mann, not very well knowing what the beadle meant, raised her hands with a look of sympathy, and sighed.
Almost at the same time that Jem Device and his party reached the near bank of the stream, the beadle and the others appeared on the opposite side.
By this time, the scales having been affixed to a hook in the porch by Baggiley, the sacred volume was placed on one side, and Nance set down by the beadle on the other.
These functions were often conferred by agreement in consideration of a fixed rent, and in this case the steward or beadletook the name of firmarius[689].
As we have seen, the manorialbeadle was matched by the communal reeve, and a like contrast is sometimes found on the lower degrees[767].
Hazard, who was attached to the church as sexton, clerk, and ward beadle for nearly fifty years.
The president is preceded on his entrance and departure by the beadle of the society, bearing this mace.
The sellers of letters used to meet in the Royal Exchange before business hours, till the beadle had at last to drive them away to make room for the merchants.
One pilloried individual, grimly jesting at his own sorrows, told an inquiring friend that he was celebrating his nuptials with Miss Wood, and that his neighbour, whom the beadle was whipping, had come to dance at the wedding.
The beadle who whipped him had his left hand filled with red ochre, through which, after every stroke, he drew the lash of the whip, leaving the appearance of a wound upon the skin, but in reality not hurting him at all.
The beadle is seated on a step, making love to an old woman, who holds a tankard in her hand.
Entrance of Councillors, headed byBeadle carrying a mace.
The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, “I inwented it.
His greatcoat is a parochial cut, and he looks a beadleall over.
Mrs. Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor: placed a seat for him, and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair and the cocked-hat on the table.
After marriage the high-and-mighty beadle was sadly henpecked and reduced to a Jerry Sneak.
BUM´BLE, beadle of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born and brought up.
The Beadle combined in his office a number of duties, including one which he must have felt a little infra dig--I mean the office of scavenger!
The idea of disestablishing the parish beadle and the constable was distasteful in itself, and the notion that they could be improved upon was rather laughed at.
Because the Beadle has been wonderfully profuse with his cocked hat, and the pew-opener, within the last fortnight, has nearly curtseyed me to death.
Prices jumped about on every side, and so did little boys, whom the beadle chased, declaring he would have them there at no price.
This being perceived by the constable who followed the beadle to see that he did his duty, he (the constable) applied the cane without any such management or precaution to the shoulders of the beadle.
The beadle also fell occasionally under suspicion, well merited at times, it is feared.
Thinking he had the beadle thoroughly cornered, the minister fixed him with his eye and paused for an answer.
This custom of giving sae mickle to the beadle has been ust of ald in this parish.
The priest, however, assisted by his beadle and by the herdsman, interrupts me, and all the more easily that I was speaking Italian.
Since the beadle has seen nobody in the evening, it is not likely that he will see more in the morning.
I hid myself as before, and the beadle locked me in without making any discovery.
At five o'clock the beadle made his usual tour of inspection, went out and locked the door.
How the beadlekept the gates that day, he alone knew.
Half the ragamuffins in the place are collected round the Rectory gates: they had better let the beadle get amongst them!
All Souls' clock struck eleven, and the beadle came out of the church and threw wide the gates.
The beadle was rapping his stick on sundry heads with great effect, and the excited crowd pushed and danced round that travelling carriage, but they made their way to it.
The beadle was sitting in all the reasonable pride of his dignity in the first pew to the right of the Session.
It so chanced that he was not seen by either the porter or his wife; the former being beadle of the church of the Madeleine, was absent at a service, and the wife had just gone up to show a vacant apartment to a lodger.
Toupillier, former drum-major in the French Guards, had been for the two years preceding 1789 in the service of the Church as beadle of Saint-Sulpice.
When nearly at the summit, to my horror I discovered a very fat beadle in the pulpit lighting the candles.
He must originally have been a kind of secular beadle of the community, or a curfew constable, to see the whole population well a-bed in good season.
