Patrolmen

In some cases we had there what you call patrolmen; they called them padarollers there. ❋ Unknown (1845)

I stopped a score of individual "patrolmen" on the street, flashed my shield and pictures, pressed dollar bills into their hands and asked questions in the best English-Spanish I could muster. ❋ Ellroy, James, 1948- (1992)

He told patrolmen then that "he wasn't going to be taken down like last time" and that "it would take a SWAT team" to bring him in, Dominick said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Outside the church, patrolmen walking the beat discovered that several thousand people were sleeping in a vacant lot across the street from Ebenezer. ❋ Rebecca Burns (2011)

It was also history that at least two patrolmen who had tried to take him dead had died themselves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Trouble is, enforcing rules of the road with Information Highway patrolmen probably wouldn't go over so well. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the instructions of the Fish Commission were to the effect that the patrolmen should avoid complications, and this one, did we call on the higher powers, might well end in a pretty international tangle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Granted the two border patrolmen should have lost their jobs for lying to their boss, but prison was rather harsh. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of the fish patrolmen under whom we served at various times, ❋ Unknown (2010)

He talked on, listing the dangers out there on the road for our brave highway patrolmen, but I was busy arranging myself on the cot, reaching up to the snap on his jeans. ❋ Gita M. Smith (2011)

I would go back to his office and apologize to his office workers and fellow patrolmen, saying I made a mistake. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the end of half a day's fighting, the patrolmen had drawn off in wrecked boats, with one of their number killed and three wounded. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, two highway patrolmen stood silently on either side of the room. ❋ Alex Brant-Zawadzki (2011)

I put the Reindeer about on the other tack, ran up under the lee of a junk, shivered the mainsail into the wind and lost headway, and forged past the stern of the junk so slowly and so near that one of the patrolmen stepped lightly aboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"This means it will be Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and Afghan patrolmen who will take the lead in ensuring the transition is irreversible," Allen noted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Kidnapped little girls wind up murdered; patrolmen pop pills. ❋ Amy Chozick (2011)

Legally (if not financially), the border patrolmen would have been justified calling in an Army gunship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"If we continue on the glide path we're on, continue to reinforce the police with well-trained officers and patrolmen, continue to support the governor with his attempts to get good local government deeply embedded, I think it's irreversible," Maj. ❋ Joshua Partlow (2011)