Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "greffier"

Lexicographically close words:
greets; greeue; greeued; greeuous; greeuouslie; gregarious; gregariously; gregariousness; grege; gregem
  1. A rich greffier paid him a large sum of money that he might be instructed in the art, and Aluys gave him several lessons on the most common principles of chemistry.

  2. The greffier studied hard for a twelvemonth, and then discovered that his master was a quack.

  3. Do you happen to know Antoine Geoffroy, greffier of the Tribunal?

  4. On the greffier entering the cell, he quickly discovered the ruse, and gave the alarm; the under gaoler was despatched to stop the chair, but he was too late.

  5. I take it to the Greffier to read for me.

  6. The Bailly closed the book, and handed it back to the Greffier with the words: "This is not proof though it is evidence.

  7. What would not the Greffier have given for her importance!

  8. At last the door at which the greffier had tapped opened, and a gaunt figure in a red robe came out.

  9. Footnote 358: Van Odyck to the Greffier of the States General, Aug.

  10. Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Nov.

  11. But the States-General could neither wear the diamond nor cash the bill of exchange, and it would have been better for the Greffier not to contaminate his fingers with them, but to leave the gifts in the monk's palm.

  12. These were handed by Father Neyen, the secret agent of the Spanish government, to the Greffier as a prospective reward for his services in furthering the Truce.

  13. But the most subtle and far-reaching research into past transactions was due to the Greffier Cornelis Aerssens, father of the Ambassador Francis, and to a certain Nicolas van Berk, Burgomaster of Utrecht.

  14. Crebillon and his wife accompanied the old greffier back from Paris to Dijon, where, to the great surprise of the inhabitants, the father presented his son as "M.

  15. This omission proceeds from a text of great antiquity on which are based notably La chronique de la Pucelle and the account of the Greffier de La Rochelle whom this mangled phrase visibly embarrassed.

  16. The door opened as he spoke, and a greffier of the tribunal appeared with four gendarmes.

  17. The Greffier now retired, leaving Peytel alone with the curé, who did not thenceforth quit him.

  18. Before the porch of the church they endeavored to force him to kneel, but his legs were so broken that he uttered a piercing cry in endeavoring to stoop; he was obliged to pronounce while standing the words which the greffier dictated to him.

  19. Linchovius, hinders Peter Grotius from being made Greffier of Amsterdam, 347.

  20. The former story was written in 1429, by the Greffier of Rochelle.

  21. The Greffier was writing at the moment, but not, of course, as an eyewitness.

  22. The Greffier now retired, leaving Peytel alone with the cure, who did not thenceforth quit him.

  23. But this second draught of the sentence was so far conforming to the law, that it was signed by the greffier or clerk of court, which was not the case with the former.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greffier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.