Exempel på beadle

• On the way, he met various people -- a laborer, a shepherd, a beadle, some laundresses -- and asked whether they had seen the children.

• Oh, it's sickening, replied the beadle.

• The beadle has varying duties, always relating to management or security (but not instruction), and often represents the college to outsiders through wearing a uniform and providing information.

• In the eighteenth century the church beadle went around the parish farms, kirton and hamlets at the time of the death and later when the funeral arrangements had been settled.

• In the end, the beadles arrested them and the conflict was taken to court.

• Not a penny could be spared for 'amenities'; for partridges and wine, beadles and turf, books and cigars, libraries and leisure.

• On the other hand, there are numerous indications of violent behaviour on the part of the beadles during just such activities.

• The guards and beadles, by contrast, just stood back and watched while the burghers looked for ways to resolve the conflict.

• Tellingly (considering what was to come later) he had the parish beadles canvass on his behalf.

• The subordination of the beadle to the other burghers was also expressed in the social obligation of the beadle to doff his hat before all burghers.

• Punishment of delinquents or the control of town life by officers of the town council (such as the beadle), however, also played a minor but formative regulatory role.

• Henceforth, the authority of the chancellor came to be symbolized in the maces carried by his two beadles on official occasions.

• The "schulklopfer" was usually a beadle, who would perform the task by wandering around the community, knocking on each household's door.

• He refused to go unless accompanied by a beadle or a servant.

• The beadle had to call the children to classes by ringing the village bell.