Then the duke left them together, and desired the provost who had the charge of the prisoners to place him where he might overhear their conversation.
But the duke persuaded the provostto put off the execution of Claudio, and to deceive Angelo by sending him the head of a man who died that morning in the prison.
When mass had been sung, the provost pronounced a short oration.
His companion and fellow-prisoner, who was apparelled and mounted in a similar manner, was the seditious and mischievous Provost Jacob of Lund.
The provost reviled him but said that if he could carry away a certain stone which he had in his palace he would believe that he could build the bridge.
He was led to the provost of the city to be chastised, and announced it also to him.
The course of instruction adopted by Provost Smith.
Smith, the Provost of the College at Philadelphia, was invited by them to arrange the course of instruction, and to place the institution in the way best calculated to answer the intention of the founders.
Provost Smith introduced West, among other persons, to four young men, pupils of his own, whom he particularly recommended to his acquaintance, as possessing endowments of mind greatly superior to the common standard of mankind.
The attention which it attracted, and the encomiums which the Provost in particular bestowed on it, induced West, who was in the Poet's confidence, to mention to him who was the author.
Smith, the Provost of the college, had largely contributed to elevate the taste, the sentiment and the topics of conversation in Philadelphia.
Simeon and the Child, as large as life, for the Provost of Eton.
There was something so judicious in the plan of study whichProvost Smith had formed for his pupil, that it deserves to be particularly considered.
But after a few years of this a young man named Adam Wayne becomes Provost of Notting Hill, and to him his borough, and more especially the little street in which he has spent his life, are things of immense importance.
King Auberon and the Provostof Notting Hill, Adam Wayne, are speaking.
The Provost of Paris was then Jean dEstouteville, lord of Villebon.
The Provost of Paris was then in possession of it from his Majesty; but since the Provost made no use of the castle, his Majesty perhaps might grant it me to employ in his service.
He is a sheep-grazier; and being closely related to Messer Guido Guidi, the physician, who is now provost of Pescia, I lent ear to his proposals.
Several of St. Ephrem’s works were translated into Latin, and published at Rome in 1589, by Gerard Vossius or Volkens, provost of Tongres.
Being ordained priest, he was made provost or dean of the Old Monastery.
Has censur'd him Already, and, as I hear, the Provost hath A warrant for his execution.
Your provost knows the place where he abides, And he may fetch him.
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to prison; and there's Madam Juliet.
I dined with the Provost of Oriel and nine other gentlemen, among them the son of the renowned Mr. Wilberforce.
Breakfasted with Mr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College, and went immediately after with him to the Dean of Trinity.
This was done; but Angelo sent the provostto behead Claudio, a crime which “the friar” contrived to avert.
To the Right Honorable ----, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Haliburton, provostof Dundee, had led a party of Reformers to attack Leith.
The governor was surprised on his return from church, and threatened with instant death if he did not surrender the keys to the provost of the town, a zealous Covenanter.
Cole, provost of Eton College, preached a sermon, in which he stated that notwithstanding Cranmer's repentance, he had done the Church so much mischief that he must die.
The citizens of Edinburgh, finding themselves deserted by the governor, flew to arms, under the command of Otterburn of Redhall, the provost of the city.
She deprived the chief magistrates of their authority because they favoured the Reformation; made Charteris of Kinfauns, a man of infamous character, provost of the city, and left a garrison of troops in French pay to support him.
However, Provost Wrangel as well as some of the elders accompanied me, the former as far as the home of Pastor Schlatter, where we were hospitably received and entertained for the night.
The Swedish provostexpressed his desire to be a member of the body.
Then, the lay delegates standing in a semicircle about the altar, Provost Sandin and the four German pastors ordained Kurtz.
Provost Sandin headed the procession from Brunnholtz's parsonage to the new church.
Acrelius, who had been provost of the Swedes in Delaware, wrote in 1759: "Forty years back our people scarcely knew what a school was.
Streit and Peter Muhlenberg, for example, were instructed by Provost Wrangel and Muhlenberg, Sr.
It was but in keeping with the unionism advised from Sweden, practised in Delaware, and indulged in to the limit by himself, when Provost Wrangel gave the final coup de grace to the first Lutheran Church in America.
The Swedes were represented by Provost Sandin and Peter Kock (Koch), a trustee of Gloria Dei Church, who zealously advocated synodical connection between the Germans and Swedes.
In 1701 ten thousand acres of Penn's lands were sold to Provost Rudman and other Swedes.
Yet Raby had not seen what had happened, for as soon as ever Petray had opened the door, the provost had immediately arrested him with the threat that if he did not yield, he would be put into irons.
Just as we were getting on to the boat at Memphis two of my company managed to get shot by the provost guard.
So it happened that my comrade and myself, though but innocent spectators, were at midnight arrested and taken to provost headquarters.
Luther’s on an epistle he (Emser) had sent to Provost Johann Zack.
And anon he was taken of the ministers of Nero and was delivered to the provost Agrippa, then was his face as clear as the sun, as it is said.
He converted four concubines, of Agrippa the provost, so that they would no more come to him, wherefore the provostsought occasion against Peter.
Then said the provost to him: Of what presumption cometh this to thee, that thou sayest that our gods be devils?
Then, when Dacian the provost saw that he might not surmount him, he called his enchanter and said to him: I see that these Christian people doubt not our torments.
Then St. Silvester was put in prison, and the provost went to dinner.
I overthrew him, and cracked them out; but the provost got them.
Presently the provost returned, and said that Brancetor was to remain in his charge till the morning, when Wyatt would hear further.
In the middle of the fourteenth century Valenciennes was so wealthy that Jean Party, provost in 1357, was regarded as the richest man in Europe.
About the middle of last century, George Drummond was provost or chief magistrate of Edinburgh, and renowned for his humane disposition.
Dugas, the provostof the merchants in that city, to befriend them at the expense of the public.
The provost marshal general of the United States is directed to cause the descriptions of said persons, with notice of the above rewards, to be published.
On the afternoon of the 14th of April--it was Good Friday--I got a telegram from the provostmarshal in Portland, Me.
This reply was considered as a contempt of the House of Lords, and the Provost would have suffered accordingly, but that the Duke of Argyle explained, that the expression, properly rendered into English, meant ducks and waterfowls.
The Lord Provostwas ex-officio commander and colonel of the corps, which might be increased to three hundred men when the times required it.
In the glorious days of auld worthy faithfu' Provost Dick,* when there was a true and faithfu' General Assembly of * Note M.
It contains three copper-plates, one representing Sir William on horseback, and attended with guards as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, superintending the unloading of one of his rich argosies.
He wad hae served the gude town lang or provost or bailie wad hae fund that out, my jo!
How ofte eek have I put of or cast out him, Trigwille, provost of the kinges hous, bothe of the wronges that he hadde bigunne to don, and eek fully performed?
In 1526 he became Provost as well as Bailiff of Paris, the two offices then being amalgamated.
But the duke persuaded the provost to put off the execution of Claudio, and to deceive Angelo, by sending him the head of a man who died that morning in the prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
