How To Use serjeant In A Sentence
- Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it. Amelia — Complete
- A few months before the Great Fire of London, in which old St. Paul's was consumed with its parvise and pillars, Dugdale wrote: "At St. Paul's each lawyer and serjeant at his pillar heard his client's cause and took notes thereof upon his knee, as they do at Guildhall at this day. The Customs of Old England
- As all those who held direct of the crown by military service (for those who held "by serjeanty" appear to have been classed apart), from earls downwards, were alike "barons," the great difference in their position and importance must have led, from an early date, to their being roughly divided into "greater" and "lesser" barons, and indeed, under Henry II., the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ already distinguishes their holdings as Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
- At last, calling the serjeant aside, I asked him, 'If I was too old to be accepted in place of my son?' The Man of Feeling
- I've also used pen nibs - not the ‘Serjeant-Major,’ which is too dry, but softer nibs, like the ‘J.’
- Imagine to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horseguards. ... Literary Remains, Volume 1
- Wigorn. _ (which was their pleasant way of saying that he lived in Worcestershire) held his manor by serjeanty of the The Book-Hunter at Home
- We will not have the custody of an heir, nor of any land which he holds of another by knight's service, by reason of any petty serjeanty [38] by which he holds of us, by the service of paying a knife, an arrow, or the like. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
- After soe many yeares studdy and being thus Entred they are Called to ye barr – yt is to plead as Councellors and Barristers in these Courts, and out of such that have been thus Barristers many yeares they Commence serjeants, and are made in this manner the first day of a terme. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
- And it wasn't above a week afterward that the old Betsy cometh back and saith, 'You'd best have let me call mun back when I told' ee '; and then she told me that a serjeant was come to Ashacombe and that Jan was listed for a sojer and was agone. The Drummer's Coat
