Bellman Grey and Blue-Eyed Boy were hurrying up Chestnut street; the man carried a large key, the boy a new broom.
Just here Bellman Grey shouted for Blue-Eyed Boy, bidding him come quick and be spry with his dusting, too.
I help Bellman Grey take care of the State House at Philadelphia, and I run on errands for the Congress folks, too, sometimes.
Bellman Grey, as he wiped for the hundredth time the damp heat from his forehead and the dust from the iron tongue beside him.
The words, springing from his lips like arrows, sped their way into the ears and hands ofBellman Grey.
I open this to say that the bellman is gone, and that you must not expect it till the next post; so don't be surprised when you don't get it.
Frederick, Every Week Corporation, Boston Daily Advertiser, The Bellman Company, The Outlook Company, and The Curtis Publishing Company.
The visitors ordered that the bellman of the university should not go about in such manner as was heretofore used at the funeral of any member of the university.
In the case of Stephen Gardener, who was executed at Tyburn, in 1724, the bellman chanted the above verses.
Every heart beats high as the Bellman choirs burst forth in turn into the well-known melodies, composed or adapted by the poet himself to his words, and sung by him to the accompaniment of his lute.
It is a question, however, whether even by these Master Singers, in their more elaborate conceptions and genial flights of poetry, Bellman has ever been surpassed.
Bellman of night, if I about shall go For to deny my Master, do thou crow.
The patriarch, twisted round the pump, made no reply, so I ventured to suggest to the bellman that he might find the gate easier.
Afterwards, when the bellman took up his abode there, they discussed the matter heavily.
At that time Thrums had its piper and drummer (the bellman of a later and more degenerate age); and on this occasion they marched together through the narrow wynds, firing the blood of haggard men and summoning them to the square.
I mind Hobart the bellman going about ringing his bell and telling all persons to get within doors; but little attention was paid to him, it being notorious that Snecky had had a fight earlier in the day himself.
From this to the henhouse, whose roof was of "divets," the descent was comparatively easy, and a slanting board allowed the daring bellman to slide thence to the ground.
But worse than new place, icy weather, or wonderful menagerie, was the bellman of Leigh.
Good rest to all, both old and young: The bellman now hath done his song.
When thebellman knocks Put out your fire and candle-light, So they shall not you affright.
Sarah said she did, and threw the bellman down a shilling with which to buy himself a pint of wine.
One account I have of the Tanfield Court murders speaks of the custom there was at this time of the bellman of St Sepulchre's appearing outside the gratings of the condemned hold just after midnight on the morning of executions.
A fellow-prisoner or a keeper bade Sarah Malcolm heed what the bellman said, urging her to take it to heart.
Leases of houses, and household furniture stuff, were sold in 1564 by an out-cryer and bellman for the day, who retained one farthing in the shilling for his pains.
When this was cried by the bellman through the streets of Tergou, a thousand mouths opened, and one heart beat--Gerard's.
Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.
When at length he sat up and was able to speak, His sad story he offered to tell; And the Bellman cried "Silence!
At Dunfermline, the Kirk Session had this matter under consideration, and the bellman was directed "to tak notice of those who tak the sneising tobacco in tyme of Divine Service, and to inform concerning them.
In 1608 appeared The Bellman of London, which is a sort of unconventional cyclopedia of thieving and vagabondage, containing much curious information about the shady side of Elizabethan life.
Bellman promptly gave half of this to an assistant, who did the work, and continued his troubadour life on the other half with a superb disdain of future needs.
He came to meet them almost a shadow, but with his old friendly smile; even in the toasts he took part, however moderately, and then he announced that he would let them 'hear Bellman once more.
The King left him so to go to his supper; and when he returned and found his guest still sleeping, he remarked, 'I wonder whatBellman would say if I awoke him now and asked him to give me a song.
Bellman was now at his best; about this time he wrote most of 'Fredman's Songs' and 'Actions concerning the Chapter of Bacchus order.
The beadle of to-day is in most respects changed, for the worse, from the bellman of old.
During the fall of the same year, Charles Bellman set up another tent store at the point occupied by the Jack Daniels saloon for many years at the site of the present "Togs.
Later on, the all-important bellman was sent round to give notice that quarters for ten thousand men would be required next day.
On returning to the room where the company was assembled, he explained to them that the bellman was without, but said nothing about the indignity he himself had undergone.
Whenever anything was to be done the bellman was sent round.
And as these were violently opposed by the supporters of the reigning monarch, and a fight seemed likely to ensue, the bellman marched off to repeat his proclamation elsewhere.
Now the bellman was a very important functionary at the time, and it seemed as if the town could not get on without him.
