All 22 Uses of
bailiff
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.†
Chpt 1-3
- His answer always was,— "I am looking for a place myself—a bailiff's.†
Chpt 4-6
- Weary of standing in the market-place, and not much minding the kind of work he turned his hand to, he decided to offer himself in some other capacity than that of bailiff.†
Chpt 4-6
- Now that Oak had turned himself into a shepherd, it seemed that bailiffs were most in demand.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- "Then will you tell him to speak to the bailiff," said Bathsheba.†
Chpt 7-9
- The bailiff was pointed out to Gabriel, who, checking the palpitation within his breast at discovering that this Ashtoreth of strange report was only a modification of Venus the well-known and admired, retired with him to talk over the necessary preliminaries of hiring.†
Chpt 7-9
- Bathsheba then rode off into the darkness, and the men straggled on to the village in twos and threes—Oak and the bailiff being left by the rick alone.†
Chpt 7-9
- "And now," said the bailiff, finally, "all is settled, I think, about your coming, and I am going home-along.†
Chpt 7-9
- The bailiff who showed this nervous dread of loving his neighbour as himself, went up the hill, and Oak walked on to the village, still astonished at the reencounter with Bathsheba, glad of his nearness to her, and perplexed at the rapidity with which the unpractised girl of Norcombe had developed into the supervising and cool woman here.†
Chpt 7-9
- And then there's this disgraceful affair of the bailiff—but I can't speak of him now."†
Chpt 7-9
- The first is that the bailiff is dismissed for thieving, and that I have formed a resolution to have no bailiff at all, but to manage everything with my own head and hands.†
Chpt 10-12
- The first is that the bailiff is dismissed for thieving, and that I have formed a resolution to have no bailiff at all, but to manage everything with my own head and hands.†
Chpt 10-12
- Bathsheba had shown indications of anointing him above his fellows by installing him as the bailiff that the farm imperatively required.†
Chpt 22-24
- So also was Bathsheba now that he had come, though the uninvited presence of Pennyways, the bailiff who had been dismissed for theft, disturbed her equanimity for a while.†
Chpt 22-24
- CHAPTER XXIV THE SAME NIGHT—THE FIR PLANTATION Among the multifarious duties which Bathsheba had voluntarily imposed upon herself by dispensing with the services of a bailiff, was the particular one of looking round the homestead before going to bed, to see that all was right and safe for the night.†
Chpt 22-24
- Unless, indeed, you'll promise to have an understanding man as bailiff, or manager, or something.†
Chpt 28-30
- "I shall have no bailiff; I shall continue to be my own manager," she said decisively.†
Chpt 28-30
- However, one excellent result of her general apathy was the long-delayed installation of Oak as bailiff; but he having virtually exercised that function for a long time already, the change, beyond the substantial increase of wages it brought, was little more than a nominal one addressed to the outside world.†
Chpt 49-51
- Troy hastily shifted his position, after having recognized in the scrutineer the knavish bailiff Pennyways, his wife's sworn enemy, who still hung about the outskirts of Weatherbury.†
Chpt 49-51
- He was about to leave his hole of espial, attempt to follow Pennyways, and find out if the ex-bailiff had recognized him, when he was arrested by the conversation, and found he was too late.†
Chpt 49-51
- From the words and action of Pennyways, Troy, though he had not been able to see what the ex-bailiff wrote, had not a moment's doubt that the note referred to him.†
Chpt 49-51
- Oak, I have learnt a little about your secret: your interest in her is more than that of bailiff for an employer.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(bailiff) court officer responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court