Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
One day when the young bride was at table with her husband, indulging herself in expressing the happiness which she enjoyed, a tipstaff entered, and delivered to her a paper. She read it. What should it be but a subpoena for a divorce? At first she took the thing for a pleasantry: but the husband soon convinced her that nothing was more serious.
The usual forms having been gone through, the body of Samuel Pickwick was soon afterwards confided to the custody of the tipstaff, to be by him taken to the warden of the Fleet Prison, and there detained until the amount of the damages and costs in the action of Bardell against Pickwick was fully paid and satisfied. 'And that, said Mr. Pickwick, laughing, 'will be a very long time.
Pickwick said this, he got into the coach which had by this time arrived, followed by the tipstaff. Sam having stationed himself on the box, it rolled away. 'A most extraordinary man that! said Perker, as he stopped to pull on his gloves. 'What a bankrupt he'd make, Sir, observed Mr. Lowten, who was standing near. 'How he would bother the commissioners!
I always love to speak by people as I find; and, in my opinion, he is fit company for the greatest lord in the land; for he hath very good cloaths, and money enough. He is not here for debt, but upon a judge's warrant for an assault and battery; for the tipstaff locks up here."
Kirkpatrick, who was about setting off for Scotland; and, having obtained a habeas corpus for him, and got a tipstaff to go with me to St. Paul's church-yard, where he lived, he, suspecting something of this kind, set a watch to look out. My being known to them occasioned me to use the following deception: I whitened my face, that they might not know me, and this had its desired effect.
There were some dozen barristers, some fiddling with pen and ink, others buried in briefs, some beckoning, with the plumes of their pens, to their attorneys, of whom there were no lack; there were clerks to-ing and fro-ing, and the officers of the court, and the registrar, who was handing up a paper to the judge; and the tipstaff, who was presenting a note at the end of his wand to a king's counsel over the heads of the crowd between.
That is the signal when their privileges are invaded by tipstaff or bailiff; and at the blast of the horn they all swarm out to the rescue, as bees when their hive is disturbed. Jump, Jim," he said, calling out to the attendant, "and see what they are doing in Alsatia.
Then Ralph grew white about the lips and looked around him uneasily. The judge saw that the lad was faint, and ordered a tipstaff to bring him a glass of water. Ralph drank the water and it refreshed him. "You may cross-examine the witness," said Goodlaw to the plaintiff's attorney. Sharpman hardly knew how to begin.
He advanced in his excuse the troublous nature of the times, and threw in a bunch of malisons at the circumstances which forced upon soldiers the odious duties of the tipstaff, hoping that we would think him none the less a gentleman for the unsavoury business upon which he was engaged.
One for Peter, two for Paul, Three for ." But La Chesnaye shouts out for the knaves to hold quiet. Godefroy bobs his tipstaff, and bawls on: "Soul! Soul! For an apple or two! If you've got no apples, nuts will do! Out with your raisins, down with your gin! Give me plenty and I'll begin." M. Radisson looks down the hall and laughs.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking