bum-bailiff

Still, when the money-lenders came to him and stated their case, he made for a time an honest attempt to double; but ultimately his indignation got the better of his diplomacy, and with an oath that made the windows rattle, he roared, “Do you think I am going to be bum-bailiff to a parcel of blood-suckers!”

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

He called upon his companions in the flat-boat, who came instantly to his assistance, and were apparently ready to rescue him from the clutches of this trans-Atlantic bum-bailiff.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

Still, when the money-lenders came to him and stated their case, he made for a time an honest attempt to double; but ultimately his indignation got the better of his diplomacy, and with an oath that made the windows rattle, he roared, "Do you think I am going to be bum-bailiff to a parcel of blood-suckers!"

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

Still, when the money-lenders came to him and stated their case, he made for a time an honest attempt to double; but ultimately his indignation got the better of his diplomacy, and with an oath that made the windows rattle, he roared, "Do you think I am going to be bum-bailiff to a parcel of blood-suckers!"

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

Dinah, happy in seeing Etienne taking his ease, smoking a cigar after breakfast, his face beaming as he basked like a lizard in the sunshine, could not summon up courage enough to make herself the bum-bailiff of a magazine.

The Muse of the Department Honor�� de Balzac 1824

It is precisely fitted to the feeling and the intellect of a bum-bailiff.

Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 Daniel Webster 1817

Why didn’t I do it today when I took you for a bailiff — a confounded pettifogging bum-bailiff!”

The Virginians 2006

a sort of glorified bum-bailiff, with the necessary assistance, the bum-bailiff holding a position similar to that of a magistrate.

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

a letter, or take an affidavit in a corner, or run on a message, to do the business of an under-sheriff, tipstaff, or bum-bailiff, was not fit to give an opinion on a question of Mahometan law.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

And that poor debauchee, Robert Greene, who knew no more of law than he might have derived from such limited, though authentic information as to its powers over gentlemen who made debts without the intention of paying them, as he may have received at frequent unsolicited interviews with a sergeant or a bum-bailiff, has this passage in his "Quip for an Upstart

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various