crowner

• “crowner's quest-law,' he is only parodying, and that closely, a scarcely less ludicrous judgment which had actually been pronounced, not long before, in the Court of Queen's Bench.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852

• “He is sitting this minute with the crowner, and they are not to be disturbed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wicked Will

• ““Yes, I know you told the crowner you found it whilst going down to the river for water,” broke in Will, all impatience.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wicked Will

• “WV - crowner - if I knew the baker, I'd crowner queen of the lolspeak cakes!”

  Halloween Heckling

• “Anyway, the crowner in the story about Luis Carrion is that he's probably this month starting his studies at Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government and Economics.”

  Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America

• “Robert,' I says to meself, 'Robert,' I sez, 'did you ever' appen to see a poachin 'cove in a bell-crowner afore?”

  The Broad Highway

• “Because, if you 'adn't' appened to be a-wearin 'that there bell-crowner, and I' adn't 'appened to be of a argifyin' and inquirin 'turn o' mind, I should ha 'filled you full o' buckshot.”

  The Broad Highway

• “And, when I had gone on some distance, I took off that which the man had called a "bell-crowner," and bestowed upon it a touch, and looked at it as I had never done before; and there was gratitude in look and touch, for tonight it had, indeed, stood my friend.”

  The Broad Highway

• “He was crowned in a bomb-proof church by a thoroughly searched clergyman, only the crown, the crowner, and the crowned being present to witness the ceremony.”

  Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be.

• “I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.”

  Act V. Scene I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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