crier

• This crier was no doubt sent, or induced to stand in that particular place, by friends of the royal family. —  The Peasant and the Prince
• She gave the impression that there was no time to be lost were one to gather all the things in life worth hearing If Mrs. Constantine stood for the police and Miss Purves the town-crier, Mrs. Maxse certainly represented Society. —  The Captives
• Our gents say his father was a town-crier, and that he has inherited the family estate Ay, our gents are a set of saucy fellows, as is usually the case when there isn't work enough aboard You should make a little allowance, Sir Gervaise, for being in the ship of a successful commander-in-chief. —  The Two Admirals
• Little girl lost It was the town crier, and as he rang his bell and gave his loud cry, out of the darkness he heard a small voice exclaim Why, dat's me With great difficulty the crier was able to persuade the child to unclasp her arms from the neck of the big friendly dog, but at last she left him, and was taken to the crier's home and "feasted sumptuously on bread and molasses in a tin plate with the alphabet round it," while her frantic family was being notified. —  Ten American Girls From History
• He stopped the crier, and said to him, "Let me see that apple, and tell me what virtue or extraordinary property it possesses, to be valued at so high a rate?" —  The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete

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