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  • Commissioner calmly offered him promotion to an Inspectorship, which is equivalent to the rank of a captain, and carries pay of two thousand a year.

    Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Dungeness was worth all that money in hard cash yearly; and the late Inspector having quitted this life — through pork boiled in a copper kettle — the situation was naturally vacant; and the Admiral being the man for whose check the Inspectorship was appointed, it is needless to say that (in the spirit of fair play) the appointment was vested in the Admiral.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Inspectorship rank; Shoebotham, Telford and Newson, who had done good service on the plains and the Northland; and Beyts, Field and French, whose remarkable patrols on the Hudson's Bay, Athabasca and Mackenzie

    Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

  • Registration Offices, the Inspectorship of Factories, the Board of

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • "You will give me the Whiskey Inspectorship," I answered.

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

  • Sheffield was certain to be Superintendent before long; and it only required one other big case, such as this, to insure Harborne's succession to an Inspectorship.

    The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921

  • And, if they are few now, they were still fewer during the thirty-five years of Arnold's Inspectorship.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • University I had taken orders; but, for reasons impertinent to this narrative, was led, after five years of parochial work in Surrey, to accept an Inspectorship of Schools.

    I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • What, compared with losing love and power and fair fame, was it to -- job an Inspectorship?

    Half a Hero A Novel Anthony Hope 1898

  • And, if they are few now, they were still fewer during the thirty-five years of Arnold's Inspectorship.

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

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