Look in the next page, and you will see the ferocious, bacon-devouring ruffian of a miller is actually causing this garment to be carried through the village and cried by the town-crier. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But her secret had been published, as it were, by the town-crier in the High Street! ❋ Unknown (2004)
But it was only a town-crier beating his drum to call the people together. ❋ �mile Gaboriau (2003)
The bellman was both town-crier and night-watchman. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town-crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
'Don't shout, Ingmar,' said the Prime Minister, a murmur from Ingmar Bresslaw being something akin to a town-crier who has been given a packet of throat pastilles and a megaphone for his birthday. ❋ Elton, Ben (1991)
In Liverpool men were openly paid for their votes; and Lord Cochrane stated in the House of Commons that, after his return for Honiton, he sent the town-crier round the borough to tell the voters to go to the chief banker for L10 10s. each. ❋ Cook, Richard B (1989)
Announce reward, by town-crier, to anyone who met Gallet Saturday the 25th. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
Now was the time for the town-crier to begin his round. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
Some say that it comes from the Tartar word "birintch" which means "town-crier." ❋ Lillian Eichler Watson (N/A)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. ❋ A.E. Marty (N/A)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. ❋ Irvah Lester Winter (N/A)
For you know, Thomas, Eben's a fussy sort of chap, and he'd be roaring like a town-crier after his bag. ❋ Theodore P. Wilson (N/A)
The rest of the village was in full attendance, for it was not every day in the week that the "tambour," the town-crier, had business enough to render his appearance, in his official capacity, necessary; as a mere townsman he was to be seen any hour of the day, as drunk as a lord, at the sign of "L'Ami Fidèle." ❋ Anna Bowman Dodd (N/A)
Antoinette Wallinger, and the daughters of the Court butcher and the municipal town-crier. ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lieve the town-crier spoke my lines. ❋ Anna Kelsey Howard (N/A)
Honiton, he sent the town-crier round the borough to tell the voters to go to the chief banker for £10 10s. each. ❋ Richard B. Cook (N/A)
_A Ballad-Singer_ is a town-crier for the advertising of lost tunes. ❋ Various (N/A)
