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You start to feel like Oliver Twist approaching the beadle's table with an empty plate and an apprehensive expression.

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You start to feel like Oliver Twist approaching the beadle's table with an empty plate and an apprehensive expression.

Have I Got News For You juliette 2008

Shrieks when she hears the beadle's rumbling cart.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

And the blazing red of my beadle's coat is turning to pink through fear,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

In a corner is a beadle's staff that once struck terror into the hearts of Sabbath-breaking boys; and near one of the windows is a little brass crucifix from St. Pancras 'Priory.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

The parish engines were in the care of the beadles, and in one case a beadle's widow, Mrs. Smith, for some years commanded one of the city engines.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

"The beadle's coat is much too large for him," said I. "Yes, yes," he replied hurriedly.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

We presume that it is with this commendable feeling that pins'-heads (whose smallness in former days became a proverb) should now resemble the apex of a beadle's staff; and, as though to make

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

And while the peppery little beadle's eyes were searching the japer out, another added,

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

It is just that relief should be dealt out to them with no parochial hand, but with a palm a little wider open than that of the relieving officer, and in a spirit of consideration somewhat more kindly than the beadle's.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921