During that time the keys of the city passed from mayor to prior, and the town courts were closed in favour of the Pie-Powder Court,[2] held by the steward of the priory for the redress of all disorders committed during the fair.
On one of these fine days the steward stumbled with the coffee-pot, and deluged me with its burning contents.
The only thing which did not please me in the Russian steamer, was the too great attention of the steward who, as I was told, pays for his office.
I did so, and obtained a neat little cabin in consequence, and the steward was kind enough to propose that I should take my meals with his wife.
James, Lord High Steward of Scotland, along with some other friends of Wallace, we have no means of ascertaining.
Indeed, instead of playing the part ascribed to him by Lingard, the patriotism of the Steward and the Bishop, was of that lukewarm and short-lived kind which little deserves the name.
She half rose from her knees to answer the expected knock, thinking that Mrs. Somerville had sent a steward to ascertain if Miss Baring needed anything.
The smoking saloon was inaccessible, owing to the closing of the gangway, but the chief steward suggested that the gentlemen might smoke if the ladies were agreeable.
The chief stewardheard his explanation and looked at him fixedly.
The American engineer was the first to rise, but the chief stewardwhispered in his ear; he returned to the table.
A steward was arranging tea for two at a small table.
Notwithstanding Elsie's previous outburst, the steward was sent back to ask if the ladies might visit the bridge later.
Courtenay was politely incredulous, but the arrival of the steward with the replenished tea-tray created a diversion.
When the chief steward came he gave directions that Mr. Boyle should be taken to the saloon and Dr.
The emperor Martin had brought up his nephew Fulgentius as his page and cup-bearer; but his stewardsoon became envious of the young man, and resolved to effect his ruin.
She wished to relate what the Castle-Steward had said to her and what she had said to him, and what had happened afterwards.
All the world knows that Mr. Trius is the Steward of Castle Wildenstein; he is one person and not two.
I have everything I want to bring him now, and the Castle-Steward has probably been waiting for us all day, so, you see, we simply must go.
I know him, I have been in Spain," the Castle-Steward said curtly.
They were not in the least interested in what Mäzli had to say about the Steward, as they all thought that the steward was Mr. Trius.
But the Castle-Steward smiled, as if he had comprehended Mäzli's words.
I must go see the Castle-Steward to-day," she said quickly.
When Kurt, after the belated supper that night, renewed his examination about the single or the double Stewardof Castle Wildenstein, their mother announced that bedtime had not only come for the little ones, but for all.
Then Mäzli answered, "Mr. Trius is one and the Castle-Steward is another.
If he won't open it I'll scream so loud that the Castle-Steward will hear it," she said obstinately.
Loneli was extremely eager to have a chance to find out who was the Castle-Steward whom Mäzli had promised to visit.
Leonore had related in the meantime how Mäzli had proposed to visit the sick Castle-Steward and how she had at first been reluctant to go, till Mäzli had made her feel that she was wrong.
The unjust steward had been discharged, and Lord Wilton had gained golden opinions from his poorer neighbours, by listening kindly to their relation of grievances, and redressing them to the best of his ability.
An insolent overbearing steward had reigned absolute monarch of the soil, during a long period of fifteen years.
The ladies' steward of the 'Etruria,' a little fellow with large blue eyes and spectacles and a drooping moustache, is very polite and attentive.
Mary Jane’s face shone and Alice smiled so sweetly that the stewardnearly tumbled over his feet in his eagerness to get them comfortably settled at once.
For answer the captain rang a bell for the steward and the order he gave made the girls hungrier than ever.
Next morning, as they were coming out from the dining room after breakfast, Mrs. Merrill stopped a few minutes to talk with the steward and the girls knew immediately that something nice was coming.
By the time all necessary errands were finished the steward came to the lobby with the luncheon all neatly packed in a nice box.
His steward often found it difficult to provide for his family by reason of his great alms, and used to threaten to leave him.
The bishop's reeve was a bishop's steward for secular affairs, attending in his court.
As fast as the steward put the fire-irons up, they would fall down again; and the more the ladies and gentlemen tried to sit comfortably on their seats, the more the seats seemed to slide away from the ladies and gentlemen.
There is a singular smell below, which gave me some uneasiness at first; but as the steward says it is always there, and never goes away, I am quite comfortable again.
Professor Grime has inadvertently tossed his half-crown out of one of the cabin-windows, and it has been arranged that the steward shall toss for him.
Cloths are laid in the cabins, and the steward is placing blue plates—full of knobs of cheese at equal distances down the centre of the tables.
A steward came up to Frederick and presented the second engineer, who brought a message from Doctor Wilhelm asking Frederick to come to him immediately.
Frederick greeted the clothing manufacturer, whom his steward had helped up on deck.
The steward was working away in a glow of zeal to get each of the dozen beds freshly spread, and as soon as the second one was ready, Ingigerd was laid between the warmed covers.
He had his breakfast served in bed, rang the call-bell, gave orders, and kept the steward dancing attendance on him.
A steward came up and modestly explained that it was his duty to ask him to refrain from what he was doing.
The steward and Bulke had to hold him fast and use main force in putting him to bed.
Frederick had been lying a while on his bed dressed, when his steward opened the door and according to instructions gravely pronounced the one word, "Danger.
In the meantime, the steward of the vessel brought Frederick hot tea, and one of the sailors, who acted as barber and nurse on the vessel, attempted to restore Mrs. Liebling to life.
He gave Frederick a ghastly glance of unconsciousness and let a steward support him to the nearest steamer chair.
It was by painting the portrait of the head-steward that he had lived so handsomely on the steamer and had landed on American soil with fifty dollars in his pocket, though a day later not a cent of the fifty dollars was left.
The steward that called it into Frederick's cabin and the next instant disappeared little realised how his brief announcement, "Land!
When he looked up, he heard the steward remonstrating with the American and heard the American say in good German: "The captain's a donkey.
He had been lying in his cabin more dead than alive, and his steward had been feeding him on nothing but Malaga grapes.
Did not a steward on a gloomy, horrid night call 'Danger!
Strange to say, such was his denseness, that even then, the yokel could not see the point of the joke and the steward had to order him away.
The sick-bay steward took Reeks to the bulkhead opposite, where was a standard for measurement, the same as they keep in barrack-rooms.
I could not help seeing now, that, though the steward held out our papers to him, he did not take the trouble to stretch out his hand for them; allowing the man to lay them on the table before him when he was tired of holding them out.
The sick-berth steward then proceeded to put a tape-measure round his body, just under the armpits, compassing his chest.
The doctor laughed outright at this; whereat, the somewhat demure sick- berth steward smiled grimly, allowing himself this slight indulgence amid the stormy austerities of duty, the only departure from the gravity he had all along displayed.
The story alluded to I do not know; but perhaps the lady stolen by the stewardwas reduced to spin.
Expected to get position as steward again in the spring.
The steward hurried away; and in less than a minute the man Dennis made his appearance, followed as far aft as the mainmast by all hands.
It was the steward as brought the news for'ard to us one night.
And that was all we could get out of the steward that night.
So I says, `He was steward aboard here until the skipper sacked him in Sydney.
But, since a steward we must have, and this man impressed me as being the most quiet and likely man for the berth, I had chosen him, since he had professed his readiness to try his hand and do his best.
The Emperor's steward and cooks had nearly all been trained in the household of the king and the princes.
The steward answered he should have nothing till the Sheriff came home, so Little John grumbled and left him, and sought out the butler.
Then he got up, and told the steward that he wanted some dinner.
In 1758, the steward told me it had increased to twice the original value.
I have kept back enough to pay for a new suit (which I am now wearing) and one big bust before I sail next week as deck steward on an Aberdeen liner.
It is my pleasure and privilege, as you know, to act as steward at present during the regretted retirement of the regular holder of that office, owing to eczema of the hands.
Then the old steward will say, 'Do I not smell flowers here?
He never advertised himself in the newspapers, nevertheless he regarded himself as a steward of the Almighty, and used his money accordingly.
There is a delightful house which I am told was occupied by the steward of the late owner, and which is now empty.
Dupois to accompany his head-steward to Paris, and assist him in the sale of the great loads of hay and corn.
There was no steward or overseer of the little property, but the farm was thoroughly and efficiently worked.
Dupois' steward made no objection to this arrangement, for Anton seemed a most steady and respectable man, and the children had all made great friends with him.
I asked the head steward to tell me how much he cooked every day for all on board.
We had a Chinese stewardon board-- "What does a steward do on a ship?
It is now decided that the question between Tristan and the steward shall be settled by combat, and the Princess orders Tristan's armour to be made ready.
The steward claims the hand of the Princess, which has been promised to the slayer of the dragon, but the Queen Mother by her magic discovers that another did the deed, and going forth at dawn finds the unconscious Tristan.
No knight may abide here without leave of a stewardcalled Sir Lambard.
The steward started forward to the buttery, and shut fast the door, but Little John gave him such a rap on his back it almost broke in two--as long as he lived he would be the worse for the blow.
