police-constable

He jumped off, his unicorn stumbled, he fell ... and fell straight into the arms of a police-constable, who was taking him before the

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

But he knew that Uncle was standing at the corner of the hut, fixing him with his grey eyes, while beside him stood the most terrible person that Peter could conceive -- the police-constable from Frankfurt.

Heidi 2000

Suddenly he gave a jump and looked behind him with a terrified expression, as if some one had caught hold of him by the nape of the neck; for Peter expected every minute that the police-constable from Frankfurt would leap out upon him from behind some bush or hedge.

Heidi 2000

The door was opened by a police-constable, who said:

The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963

In view of her established supremacy at sea, England was generally regarded as the police-constable of Europe in naval affairs, and upon her fell the chief duty of chastening the Dey of Algiers, though on this occasion the Dutch Government also lent its assistance.

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

Two hours later a wild-eyed, breathless servant bareheaded in the pouring rain, was stammering incoherently to a police-constable in

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

There is a decorum which restrains you (unless you happen to be a police-constable) from breaking through a crust of plausible respectability, even when you are certain that there is a knave beneath it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

I was in the house -- safe and sound -- she went into hysterics of thankfulness of so violent a description that I had to leave her with police-constable 906, and run across the road for the doctor.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

"I inquired if any one had been arrested on suspicion of the crime in question, and a police-constable answered that such was the case, and that, as they had been taken to the town on Sunday, they had been kept in the police-station over night, and after that had been obliged to go on foot to gaol, accompanied by two constables."

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

POLICE-CONSTABLE GIBSON A police-constable who has read “Macbeth”

Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940