At Lincoln, on the other hand, the tilers had formed a gild in 1346, and no tiler not belonging to the gild might stay in the town.
Thus John Tiler leaving Acton, perhaps for Acton's good, would be known in his new surroundings as John Acton.
Footnote: It may be noted here that John Tiler of Dartford, who killed a tax-gatherer for insulting his daughter, was not Wat Tiler, who was killed at Smithfield for insulting the King.
I was drinking with my man, and we asked her to join us, and she told us that the tiler had been sentenced to the galleys.
Hie we then from the first to the fourteenth century, when, in 1381, Wat, the Tiler of Dartford, encamped here as leader of a hundred thousand insurgents.
If the body is to be placed in the former, the Tiler should take his place in front of the open door, and the lines be spread so as to form a circle.
He merely ordered the tiler to stay in the air till he should receive further instructions, and ran as fast as his legs would carry him to communicate the urgency of the circumstances to the prior.
The monk obeyed; but seeing a poor tiler fall from the top of a house, he hesitated for a moment between the desire to save the unfortunate man's life, and the sacred duty of obedience to his superior.
The slater fastens on his slates with nails driven into the wood: the tiler secures his tiles by means of a raised bar on the under side of each, that locks into a corresponding bar of deal in the framework of the roof.
He wants to go racing after Tiler now, and if he does he'll give away the whole show.
I drove straight to the Hôtel de la Poste, careless that my tormentors were accompanying me; they could do me no more harm, and Tiler was at hand to help in vindicating our position.
One facteur assured us he had helped her into the train going Amberieu way, but I thought his description very vague, although Tilerswallowed the statement quite greedily.
One or two porters ran up and endeavoured, with Tiler and myself, to rescue my lord from his cowardly assailant.
I altogether avoided the Goeschenen station, fearing any inconvenient inquiries, and abandoned all idea of getting the telegram from Tiler that might be possibly awaiting me.
Go in, you men, both of you, Tiler and Falfani, and seize the child.
It was a satisfaction to me to see my "shadow's" fiacre draw up at the door soon after I left, and Mr. Ludovic Tiler enter the office.
This Tiler man would of course stick to me and follow me if he had the faintest clue, and I let him have that by directing Philpotts to show herself, passing quite close to him and walking on towards the train.
Tiler did not show up nor trouble me, nor did I concern myself about him.
I no longer dreaded pursuit; let them all come, the more the merrier, and I meant to fully justify Mr. Tiler in calling them to him.
It was from Tiler at Basle, and ran as follows: "They have booked through by 7.
There was no Tiler at the Hôtel de la Poste; no Tiler in Brieg.
When I first caught sight of Mr. Ludovic Tiler he was busily engaged in conversation with one of the guards and a couple of porters.
Meanwhile Tiler and I thought it our pressing duty to utilize these few moments in seeking news of our lady and her party.
I meant to advise Tiler of my plans, and at the same time arrange with him to look out for me just outside the terminus station at Domo Dossola, or to communicate with me there at the Hôtel de la Poste.
Tiler auoiding the officers blow, raught him such a rap on the pate, that his braines flue out, and so presentlie he died.
And when we had made a riddance of all those, we would haue deuised lawes, according to the which the subiects of this realme should haue liued, for we would haue created kings, as Wat Tiler in Kent, and other in other countries.
And the said Iohn Tiler tooke vpon him to be their cheefe capteine, naming himselfe Iacke Straw.
Wat Tiler being among his men, shewed that he would not beare that iniurie, and foorthwith made towards the knight to run vpon him.
No stranger tiler coming to the city was to be forced to work for any city tiler, but might take whatever work he liked by the day.
Some tiler was appointed to act as sentinel to keep off intruders, and hence, in course of time, the name of Tiler came to be applied to any Mason who guarded the Lodge.
There was quiet for some moments while the tiler and the mason emptied their cups of beer.
At noon the tiler and the mason stepped down from the roof of the village church which they were repairing and crossed over the road to the tavern to eat their dinner.
It had been a nice little morning, but there were clouds massing in the south; Sam the tiler remarked that it looked like thunder.
The tiler took pity on her, and with some trouble, and by means of his rope, pulled her out, and brought her down to the ground.
The next day, early in the morning, the tiler came to work, to make up for the time the rain had made him lose on the previous day.
The King’s Council, sitting soon after dawn, realised its own helplessness and the danger of rousing a more ugly temper in the mob, for the Tiler and the leaders had threatened to burn the suburbs if the gates of the city were not opened.
A sword flashed, and smote the Tileracross the face.
Merlin’s wagon had been drawn into the square of St. Catharine’s, and from it John Ball and Wat the Tiler spoke to the crowd.
Wat the Tiler broke away from the crowd, and his beard was all froth and spittle from shouting.
The Tiler and his comrades have thousands of fellows ready in the streets, men who are too savage against us to throw away their chances for a pot of ale.
John Ball and Wat the Tiler headed the multitude, riding side by side, the priest carrying a wooden cross, the Tiler a naked sword.
The brown figures beside her had swarmed down to follow the King’s banners, and the crowd had melted like mist, some hundreds of the rougher sort charging down to the gate that had been seized by Wat the Tiler and Jack Straw.
How little was needed for the man to pass a second later or the tiler to drop his tile a second sooner.
And yet the tiler drops a tile which kills the man, and we do not hesitate to say this is chance.
But the passer-by scarcely thinks of the tiler, nor the tiler of him; they seem to belong to two worlds completely foreign to one another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
