usher

• But M. Huë, usher, and M. Saint-Vincent were with him and soon brought him to her. —  Ruin of a Princess
• You see what it is to laugh at the superstitions of a gentleman-usher, as I think you do somewhere. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
• Nevertheless, in spite of his occasional coarseness and even brutality, the usher was a painstaking, honest fellow, who did his duty very energetically. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• Accordingly, when you have heard these facts proved by the sworn testimony of competent witnesses, together with the facts relating to the disappearance, I shall ask you for a verdict in accordance with that evidence Mr. Loram sat down, and adjusting a pair of pince-nez, rapidly glanced over his brief while the usher was administering the oath to the first witness This was Mr. Jellicoe, who stepped into the box and directed a stony gaze at the (apparently) unconscious judge. —  The Eye of Osiris
• [662] Men of middle age in robes and furs, young, smooth-faced nobles, thin and narrow shouldered, of slender build, their lean legs in tight hose, their feet in long, pointed shoes; barons fully armed to the number of three hundred, according to Aulic custom, pushed, crowded and elbowed each other while the usher was here and there striking the courtiers on the head with his rod. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2

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