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As Bedingfield pointed out, the situation of Elizabeth needing a household in order to pay for her own imprisonment meant that, as her goaler, he could not completely isolate her: "there ys an evident waye that I cannot avoyde by enye possible mense, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" to the princess. 185 It is little wonder that Bedingfield begged to be relieved of the impossible task.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

He smuggled in boy's clothes and a man's caplike the one the goaler wore, but just as she was passing the gate all her hair fell down and they called out 'Une aristocrate, une aristocrate.'

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

The goaler pushed in the daily portion of bread and water, but made no inquiry about his prisoner's well-being.

If I May 1919

The goaler may have a daughter, who, moved by the romantic history and pallor of the prisoner, may exchange clothes with him.

If I May 1919

Brown immediately went to the goal, but the goaler not being there, he could not see her.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

When he entered the room where she was seated in one corner, alone and disconsolate, there were four other women in the room, belonging to the same man, who were bought, the goaler said, for the master's own use.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

The Philippian goaler, by a train of circumstances, which I have read in the Scripture lesson to-night, had been brought to a realization of the fact that he was a lost sinner, and had a deep yearning for salvation, and he put to Paul and Silas this direct question, "What must I do to be saved?" and Paul answered him in the words of the text,

Revival Addresses 1856-1928 1903

"It is possible you may find all three in Number One before this time to-morrow;" then in Russian the Governor said to the goaler:

A Rock in the Baltic Robert Barr 1881

The mother, then, of Valentine M'Clutchy, or as he was more generally called Val the Vulture, was daughter to the county goaler, Christie

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

You are no longer a bailiff on this estate, and I have the further satisfaction to assure you, that in consequence of a private interview I had with the new bishop, the Right Rev.Dr. Lucre, concerning your appointment to the situation of under goaler at Castle

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831