hinspector

Updated: May 24, 2025

But then you, colonel, are a hinspector of police, which I take to be more than merely human; and as to the gentlemen here, a gentleman ain't a man leastways not a common man the common man bein' but the slave wot feeds and clothes the gentleman beyond the common." "Come," said the inspector, unable to follow these observations, "you are a clever dodger, but you can't dodge me.

Bernard Shaw - An Unsocial Socialist

He passed through a door into an inner room and the 'report' went with him. 'Beg pardon, sir, but was that a Harab you was a-talking about to the Hinspector? The speaker was a gentleman unmistakably of the gutter-snipe class. He was seated on a form. Close at hand hovered a policeman whose special duty it seemed to be to keep an eye upon his movements. 'Why do you ask?

Richard Marsh - The Beetle