Derriman

This Derriman was a squireen living near, who was chiefly distinguished in the present warlike time by having a nephew in the yeomanry.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

At length Derriman reached a place where the road ran between high banks, one of which he mounted and paced along as a change from the hard trackway.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

'I won't trouble ye to dress,' said Derriman considerately; 'let en down by anything you have at hand.'

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

She had not only been seen by Festus Derriman, but by John Loveday, who, riding along with his trumpet slung up behind him, had looked over his shoulder at the phenomenon of Derriman beneath Anne's bedroom window and seemed quite astounded at the sight.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

That was Derriman, who was standing by a bollard a little further up the quay.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Next to the candle-light show the red and blue coats and white breeches of the soldiers -- nearly twenty of them in all besides the ponderous Derriman -- the head of the latter, and, indeed, the heads of all who are standing up, being in dangerous proximity to the black beams of the ceiling.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Believing that he had missed them by following the highway, Derriman turned back into a lane along which they might have chosen to journey for privacy's sake, notwithstanding the badness and uncertainty of its track.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

But old Derriman keeps it so long that we never know things till they be in everybody's mouth. '

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

'Well said, Derriman, well said!' replied the foremost of the riders.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Cripplestraw, who had just come in with a message from Squire Derriman, requesting Miss Garland, as she valued the peace of mind of an old and troubled man, to go at once and see him.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884