baily

• “It was so bad kay baily stupidson was just saying ‘objection!’”

  Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill

• “It does the still somewhat obscure baily—flat, floury, indented, flecked with onion.”

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• “Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”

  Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

• “We wore all homespun clothes, and we wore the big bill baily hats.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3

• “Go, Sir Andrew; scout me for him at the corner of the orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and, as thou drawest, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”

  Act III. Scene IV. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will

• “But the truth is, I had been inquiring for some (as 'tis a commodity scarce enough in this country), and he hearing it, told the baily [bailiff?] he would give him some if 'twere for me.”

  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54

• “In the first the barbican was taken; in the next the outer baily was stormed; in the third the interior baily was won; and in the last the keep was split asunder.”

  The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)

• “She's too good for a dairymaid -- I said so the very first day I zid her -- and a prize for any man; and what's more, a wonderful woman for a gentleman-farmer's wife; he won't be at the mercy of his baily wi 'her at his side.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “But the truth is, I had been inquiring for some (as 'tis a commodity scarce enough in this country), and he hearing of it, told the baily [bailiff?] he would give him some if 'twere for me.”

  Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)

• ““And how is she getting on without a baily?” the maltster inquired.”

  Far from the Madding Crowd

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