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  • I told Agnes what I'd done, and she sent me to tell Mrs. Alderman Parkinson that all was ready.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Alderman Parkinson said sharply, What gentleman?†   (source)
  • For a few tense moments, Hearthstone, Alderman, and I stood around the rug and stared at each other.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman snatched the cursed ring out of the hoard.†   (source)
  • Maybe Mr. Alderman doesn't have that much evil inside him.†   (source)
  • I felt Mr. Alderman's presence before I saw him.†   (source)
  • Alderman took a long sip from his goblet.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman spotted us on the stairs and grinned even wider.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman appeared, rounding one of the columns and marching toward us.†   (source)
  • Alderman showed his perfect white teeth.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, officers," Mr. Alderman cut in.†   (source)
  • So, Mr. Alderman, I do your little photo op, and you give us the stone?†   (source)
  • I realized Mr. Alderman was watching me, waiting to see how I handled the elfish goofy juice.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman gestured to one of the nearby podiums.†   (source)
  • Alderman continued his inspection, making sure that the entire rug was covered.†   (source)
  • He signed in short angry bursts: His name is B-L-I-T-Z-E-N. "Stop," Alderman demanded.†   (source)
  • That's gotta be …. you know, Mr. Alderman's kid."†   (source)
  • "I will not help you," said Mr. Alderman, "because it would serve me no purpose."†   (source)
  • Also, yelling at Mr. Alderman wouldn't get us what we needed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman scrutinized Hearthstone as if looking for visible defects.†   (source)
  • The crazy light in Mr. Alderman's eyes did not calm my nerves.†   (source)
  • Alderman took it and handed it to his son.†   (source)
  • The important thing is, we must convince Mr. Alderman to give up that ring before it's too late.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman forgot that he wasn't supposed to acknowledge sign language.†   (source)
  • As for how, I am Alderman of House Alderman.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman made himself uncomfortable on the bench across from us.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman came back, carrying Master Andiron's body."†   (source)
  • She offered it to Alderman with a curtsey.†   (source)
  • Alderman's gaze was fixed on the treasure.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman bared his white teeth again.†   (source)
  • Alderman grinned with an intensity that was not at all sane.†   (source)
  • Somehow the swath of uncultivated land behind the Alderman Manor seemed even more dangerous.†   (source)
  • Then the two of us crept out of the house, thankfully without encountering Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • Alderman killed the brunnmigi, but he made Hearthstone …. skin the creature, all by himself.†   (source)
  • I glanced behind Alderman, where Inge stood wide-eyed, a grin slowly spreading across her face.†   (source)
  • Whatever Alderman had inside him, I doubted it was a fuzzy kitten.†   (source)
  • Alderman's big alien eyes narrowed, making them almost normal size.†   (source)
  • But I was betting Mr. Alderman had some first-rate security.†   (source)
  • Travel to another world before Alderman realizes?†   (source)
  • Photos with Alderman sounded almost as painful as getting decapitated by a wire.†   (source)
  • I wanted to yell at Mr. Alderman that Hearthstone was a better elf than his parents ever were.†   (source)
  • "I collect artifacts from all the Nine Worlds," said Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • When we walked in, Mr. Alderman turned toward us, his face a mask of cold anger.†   (source)
  • "Provide for my son and his guest as needed," said Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • Down in the living room, an older elf shouted, "Alderman, what is the meaning of this?"†   (source)
  • I nodded, though I wondered how strained Mr. Alderman's sanity had already been.†   (source)
  • I was just a little girl, but my mother worked as Mr. Alderman's servant.†   (source)
  • "Has turned to stone," said Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • A hungry light kindled in Mr. Alderman's space-alien eyes.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized just how long we'd been trekking through the wilds of Mr. Alderman's backyard.†   (source)
  • I realized that was one reason I felt so irritated with Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • Then there was Mrs. Alderman Parkinson, and Mary Whitney said she ought to have been the Alderman herself, as she was the better man.†   (source)
  • There was the dress I'd made at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, with the bone buttons from Jeremiah, but nothing could be saved of it except the buttons.†   (source)
  • But at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's they wanted me to live in; and I was to come at the beginning of the week.†   (source)
  • And Mary said it was a Memorial Quilt, done by Mrs. Alderman Parkinson in the memory of a dear departed friend, as was then becoming the fashion.†   (source)
  • I didn't like to stay, as ever since Mary had died, Mrs. Alderman Parkinson and Mrs. Honey were not friendly towards me.†   (source)
  • The upshot was that Mrs. Honey consulted with Mrs. Alderman Parkinson, and sent word the next day that I was to come.†   (source)
  • He'd caught a chill which had gone to his lungs, and was coughing a great deal; and Mr. and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson went about with long faces, and the doctor came, which alarmed me.†   (source)
  • We put flowers from Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's garden into the coffin, having asked permission; and it being June, there were long-stemmed roses and peonies; and we chose only the white ones.†   (source)
  • I'd seen Red Indians in Toronto, as they would sometimes go there to collect their treaty money; and others would come to the back door at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's with baskets to sell, and fish.†   (source)
  • There was the house at the end of the drive, with a verandah along the front of it and white pillars, a big house but not as big as Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's.†   (source)
  • So as I made ready to go to Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, I thanked God for taking me out of the path of temptation, and prayed that he would keep me out of it in the times ahead.†   (source)
  • And when I would say about a thing, that this was not the way it was done at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, Nancy replied sharply that she did not care, as I was not at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's now.†   (source)
  • I did wonder at her chamber being on the same floor as Mr. Kinnear's, but there was no third floor to the house, nor attic, not like Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's house, which was much grander.†   (source)
  • The family consisted, first, of Mr. Alderman Parkinson, who was seldom visible, as he was much engaged in business and politics; he was the shape of an apple with two sticks stuck into it for legs.†   (source)
  • I was a little taken aback at Mr. Kinnear having two naked women in his bedchamber, as at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's it was mostly landscapes or flowers.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Alderman Parkinson said, That was wicked of you, Grace, and Agnes said, She is only a child, she is very obedient, she was just doing as she was told.†   (source)
  • But as it was the same pattern as the button you gave to me in the kitchen at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, I felt it must be you, to let me know I was not altogether forgotten.†   (source)
  • I was surprised, and said that at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, the housekeeper would never have thought of carrying a tea tray up the stairs, as it was beneath her position and a job for the maids.†   (source)
  • How I would like to see you again, and to talk over old times, in the kitchen at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, when we would all have such fun, before Mary Whitney died and misfortune overtook me!†   (source)
  • He was an Alderman, as I recall.†   (source)
  • She had a friend who knew the housekeeper at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, and she'd heard that they were short a pair of hands; so she told me to tidy myself up, and lent me a clean cap of her own, and took me there herself, and presented me to the housekeeper.†   (source)
  • And I say, Yes, she was a Greek person from days of old, who looked into a box she had been told not to, and a lot of diseases came out, and wars, and other human ills; for I had learnt it a long time ago, at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's.†   (source)
  • I asked her who the man was, but she would not tell me; and she said that as soon as it was known what sort of trouble she was in, she would be turned away, as Mrs. Alderman Parkinson held very strict views; and then what would happen to her?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Alderman Parkinson had more pieced quilts than I'd ever seen before in my life, as it was not so much the fashion on the other side of the ocean, and printed cottons were not so cheap and plentiful.†   (source)
  • Oh Mary, I would say, how I long to be back in our little cold bedroom at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, with the cracked washbasin and the one chair, instead of here in this dark cell, in danger of my life.†   (source)
  • There was Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's lady's maid, who claimed to be French although we had our doubts, and kept to herself; and Mrs. Honey the housekeeper, who had quite a large room at the back of the main floor, and so did the butler; and the cook and laundress lived next the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Happily there was a door that latched, and so I latched it; and then I took off my clothes, all except my shift, and folded them neatly across the back of the chair, as I used to do in the little room at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's where I slept with Mary.†   (source)
  • And I remembered that this was the way it was done at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, and I did so; and once he was inside I sat him down at the kitchen table, and got him some small beer from the pantry, and a cup of cold water; and I cut him a slice of bread and cheese.†   (source)
  • She came from the United States of America, and had been a well-to-do widow before being, as she said, swept off her feet by Mr. Alderman Parkinson; which must have been a sight to behold; and Mary Whitney said it was a wonder Mr. Alderman Parkinson had escaped with his life.†   (source)
  • By the time he was better it was the middle of February, and he'd missed so much of the college term he said he would stay away until the next one; and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson agreed, and said he needed to build up his strength.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Alderman Parkinson said a lady must never sit in a chair a gentleman has just vacated, though she would not say why; but Mary Whitney said, Because, you silly goose, it's still warm from his bum; which was a coarse thing to say.†   (source)
  • Every Sunday I would lay flowers on her grave, not from Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's garden, as that was just the one special occasion, but wildflowers that I would pick in waste lots or beside the lakeshore or wherever I could find them growing.†   (source)
  • And then she laughed, and said it was only a foolish old wives' tale, and she ate the third apple, and set the other two on the window ledge to keep until the morning, and I ate my own apple; and we turned to making fun of Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's corsets; but underneath all the funning she was upset.†   (source)
  • It would be a Tree of Paradise like the one in the quilt chest at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, I used to get it out on the pretence of seeing if it needed mending, just to admire it, it was a lovely thing, made all of triangles, dark for the leaves and light for the apples, the work very fine, the stitches almost as small as I can do myself, only on mine I would make the border different.†   (source)
  • I was taught early by my mother, before she got too tired for it, and I did my sampler with leftover thread, A is for Apple, B is for Bee; and also Mary Whitney used to read with me, at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, when we were doing the mending; and I've learnt a lot more since being here, as they teach you on purpose.†   (source)
  • And then we would fall to planning about how we would hide in the forest, and leap out upon travellers, and scalp them, which she had read about in books; and she said she would like to scalp Mrs. Alderman Parkinson, except it would not be worth the trouble as her hair was not her own, there were hanks and swatches of it kept in her dressing room; and she'd once seen the French maid brushing a heap of it, and thought it was the spaniel.†   (source)
  • I was much surprised, and said so; and McDermott said I was an idiot, and despite my Mrs. Alderman Parkinson this and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson that, and my city notions, I was not so knowing as I thought myself, and could scarcely see the nose before my own face; and as for the whorishness of Nancy, anyone but a simpleton such as me would have found it out at once, as it was only the common knowledge that Nancy had a baby when she was working over at Wrights', by a young layabout who…†   (source)
  • …better to be a servant, in the daytime at least, because we could always warm ourselves in the kitchen, whereas the drawing room was as drafty as a barn and you could get no heat from the fireplace unless you stood right next to it, and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson lifted her skirts in front of it when alone in the room, to warm her backside; and last winter she'd set her petticoats alight, and Agnes the chambermaid heard the shouting, and rushed in and was frightened into hysterics, and…†   (source)
  • …room was as drafty as a barn and you could get no heat from the fireplace unless you stood right next to it, and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson lifted her skirts in front of it when alone in the room, to warm her backside; and last winter she'd set her petticoats alight, and Agnes the chambermaid heard the shouting, and rushed in and was frightened into hysterics, and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson had a blanket thrown over her, and was rolled on the floor like a barrel, by Jim from the stables.†   (source)
  • …I was, and she swore not to tell; and then she looked over my clothes, and said most of them were too small for me, and fit only for the scrap bag, and that I would never make it through the winter with only my mother's shawl, as the wind would go right through it like a sieve; and she would help me get the clothes I needed, as Mrs. Honey had told her I looked like a ragamuffin and I was to be made presentable, since Mrs. Alderman Parkinson had her name to keep up in the neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • …we would chase up and down between the rows of washing, laughing and screaming, but trying not to laugh and scream too loud, and if I would catch her I would dart in and tickle her, for she was very ticklish; and sometimes we would try on Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's corsets, over top of our clothes, and walk around with our chests sticking out and looking down our noses; and we would be so overcome that we would fall backwards into the baskets of linens, and lie there gasping like fish…†   (source)
  • …them, but she had most likely slipped and fallen down — and several spots of mildew, on things that had been in the dampness at the bottom of the pile; and wine stains on the tablecloth, from a supper party, which had not been covered with salt at the time, as they should have been; but by dint of a good bleaching fluid made from lye and chloride of lime, which I'd learnt from the laundress at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's, I got them out mostly, and trusted to the sunlight to do the rest.†   (source)
  • He was considerably trimmed as to hair and beard, and got up like a gentleman, in a beautifully cut sand-coloured suit, with a gold watch-chain across the vest; and holding a cup of tea in the best mincing gentleman's manner, just as he used to do when imitating the same, in the kitchen at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's; but I'd have known him anywhere.†   (source)
  • I did not like being mistrusted in this manner, but I did as required, and Mrs. Alderman Parkinson wrote the reference, and said kindly that she never had any fault to find with my work, and gave me a present of two dollars upon leaving, which was generous, and found me another situation, with Mr. Dixon, who was also an Alderman.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Alderman Parkinson left the room, and after a while Mrs. Honey came, and said we were to take the sheet from the bed, and her nightdress and petticoat, and wash the blood out of them; and wash the body, and take the mattress to be burnt, and see to it ourselves; and there was another mattress cover beside where the quilts were stored, and we could stuff that with straw; and we were to fetch a clean sheet.†   (source)
  • At that Mrs. Alderman Parkinson looked thoughtful, and paced to and fro the length of the room; and then she said, Agnes and Grace, we will not discuss this further, as it will only lead to unhappiness and added misery, and there is no sense in crying over spilt milk; and out of respect to the dead we will not say what Mary died of.†   (source)
  • When I said I wished to leave my situation, Mrs. Alderman Parkinson did not protest, but instead had me into the library and asked very earnestly once more if I knew the man; and when I said I did not, she asked me to swear on the Bible that even if I did, I would never divulge it, and she would write me a good reference.†   (source)
  • They applauded wildly as the smiling alderman smashed a bottle of champagne against the edge of one of the buildings.†   (source)
  • Several individuals have slightly longer accounts, including Catherine and Patrick O'Leary, in whose barn the fire began; James Hildreth, an ex-alderman who decided that the best way to save Chicago was by blowing up parts of it; and Julia Lemos, a widow who single-handedly saved her five small children and her elderly parents.†   (source)
  • This would help to abate the expected protests from the Irish community over the police chief's dismissal; and since the city would underwrite the costs, and the alderman could use the construction to support his bid for mayor in the next election, it would importune neither man.†   (source)
  • She shrugged helplessly, as if she could not describe the horrors she had witnessed at Mr. Alderman's mix-and-mingle.†   (source)
  • Alderman, Hearth and I need your help.†   (source)
  • Not since the Great Alderman Disaster of that afternoon had the word dad invoked such negative feelings in a conversation.†   (source)
  • Alderman gazed at the mosaic ceiling.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman's expression was one of the best rewards I'd ever gotten, right up there with dying and going to Valhalla.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman only tolerates this patch of wilderness on his property because …. you know, hulder need a forest nearby to survive.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman cackled like a maniac.†   (source)
  • He and Mr. Alderman rushed out again.†   (source)
  • I wanted to pour Andvari's treasure straight down Alderman's throat and see if that convinced him of his son's potential.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Alderman laughed and danced around the room, retrieving his gold trinkets from his fallen guests.†   (source)
  • I tried to imagine Alex living in a mansion like this, or mingling at an elegant party like Mr. Alderman's in Alfheim.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman must have filled in the well—or maybe he had forced Hearthstone to do it after he'd finished skinning the evil creature.†   (source)
  • After serving Mr. Alderman, she set a cup in front of me, then she smiled at Hearthstone and gave him his.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman fixed Hearthstone with a withering stare, or maybe it was his normal Wow-I-missed-you! expression.†   (source)
  • Now that I'd met Mr. Alderman, I was starting to realize that no matter how bad your family is, it could always be worse.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman gestured at the end table next to Hearth, where a small whiteboard sat with a marker attached by a string.†   (source)
  • All around the room, more elves collapsed in fits of weeping—except Mr. Alderman, who seemed immune.†   (source)
  • "We're taking you to see Mr. Alderman."†   (source)
  • I didn't want to leave Inge alone in the same room with Mr. Crazy Ring, but I was getting nauseated watching Alderman flirt with his fortune.†   (source)
  • I guessed Mr. Alderman didn't want Inge unlocking too many doors—or maybe he just didn't care if she suffered.†   (source)
  • The cold fury in his eyes reminded me of his father, Mr. Alderman, and that was not a similarity I enjoyed seeing.†   (source)
  • ALDERMAN KNEW how to throw a party.†   (source)
  • Alderman wove through the room, distributing golden trinkets, and the crowd moved away from him like cats avoiding an out-of-control Roomba.†   (source)
  • Then she scurried off, maybe to clean up spills or dust artifact niches or pay Mr. Alderman five gold for the privilege of being his servant.†   (source)
  • The master glared at her, and she hastily added, "Because, ah, Mr. Alderman is a very important man."†   (source)
  • I was glad Jack was back in pendant form, because I would've ordered him to give Mr. Alderman the full Brazilian treatment.†   (source)
  • I could see some family resemblance in the nose and the mouth, but Mr. Alderman's face was much more expressive.†   (source)
  • I wanted to ask how much it would cost to buy ten minutes of stomping Mr. Alderman with cleats, but I figured I shouldn't waste Inge's valuable time.†   (source)
  • But I also couldn't stand the idea of leaving four hundred people at the mercy of Mr. Alderman and his liquid nixie thugs.†   (source)
  • Above the fireplace mantel, across the foot of Andiron's portrait, hung a golden banner with red letters: WELCOME, MAGNUS CHASE, SON OF FREY, SPONSORED BY HOUSE ALDERMAN!†   (source)
  • I used an extra belt to make a strap for the Skofnung Stone and tied it around my waist, tucking my shirt over it so it wouldn't be too obvious if Mr. Alderman got a case of takesy-backsies.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman cried triumphantly.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman's mouth twitched.†   (source)
  • Alderman himself circulated through the crowd at double-speed, tossing gold coins to his guests, accosting them with jewelry, and muttering, "Can you believe all this treasure?†   (source)
  • That was not the deal, Alderman.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman was almost seven feet tall, and so thin that he looked like one of those UFO-flying, strange-medical-experiment-conducting aliens from Roswell.†   (source)
  • Despite everything Alderman had done to him, Hearthstone still wanted to help his father …. he was making one last effort to pull his dad out of a hole much deeper than Andvari's.†   (source)
  • "And we hope Alderman doesn't—"†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman's face got paler.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman laughed bitterly.†   (source)
  • But then I looked at the whiteboards around the room: all the rules and menu items, all the expectations that Mr. Alderman expected Hearthstone not to meet.†   (source)
  • Alderman stared at his son.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman's smile died.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman looked stunned.†   (source)
  • Alderman clapped his hands.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman pointed to me.†   (source)
  • "No," Mr. Alderman decided.†   (source)
  • Alderman scowled.†   (source)
  • Alderman chuckled.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman asked.†   (source)
  • Alderman.†   (source)
  • No more Mr. Alderman.†   (source)
  • Alderman's smile eroded.†   (source)
  • Alderman grunted.†   (source)
  • Alderman scowled.†   (source)
  • Alderman snapped.†   (source)
  • Mr. Alderman insisted.†   (source)
  • You remember, Ed, you, too, Mac—the boys was going to nominate me for Alderman.†   (source)
  • (Steps c.) And surely you don't mean Alderman Meggarty?†   (source)
  • They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen.†   (source)
  • When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.†   (source)
  • Every man, from the Tammany alderman to the Austrian house-painter, finds that he is entitled to his opinion.†   (source)
  • The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London subscribed for a spacious aquarium-mews-cum-menagerie at the Tower in which all the creatures were starved one day a week for the good of their stomachs—and here, for the fresh food, good bedding, constant attention, and every modem convenience, the Wart's friends resorted in their old age, on wing and foot and fin, for the sunset of their happy lives.†   (source)
  • Most of his father's debtors were indicated as Margolis had been--"Farty Teeth," "Rusty Head," "Crawler," "Constant Laughter," "Alderman Sam," "Achtung," "The King of Bashan," "Soup Ladle.†   (source)
  • Alderman Meggarty!†   (source)
  • There were servitors carousing outside wine shops, and old ladies haggling over eggs, and itinerant cads carrying cadges of hawks for sale, and portly aldermen with gold chains, and brown ploughmen with hardly any clothes on except a few bits of leather, and leashes of greyhounds, and strange Eastern men selling parrots, and pretty ladies mincing along in high dunces' caps with veils floating from the top of them, and perhaps a page in front of the lady, carrying a prayer book, if she…†   (source)
  • May or November, he had his eleven o'clock breakfast of tea with milk and lump sugar and sweet rolls, dinner of steak and baked potatoes, he smoked ten or twelve Ben Beys, wore the same pants of aldermanic stripe, a hat of dark convention drawing the sphere of social power over his original potent face while he considered what to meld and when to play jack or ace, or whether he could give his son Clementi the two bucks he often came in to ask for.†   (source)
  • That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation.†   (source)
  • I was an alderman for years—and Lord Mayor two years ago—and I'm still on the Bench—so I know the Brumley police officers pretty well—and I thought I'd never seen you before.†   (source)
  • "Well, I couldn't go over while he was talking to Alderman Cowley.†   (source)
  • Very well; I see you got that nomination for alderman.†   (source)
  • One might bring one's self to announce aldermen and burgomasters, but a hosier was too much.†   (source)
  • The aldermen of the city give a fete on the third of October.†   (source)
  • How is the worthy alderman, and my lady, your excellent mother, sir?†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes," from Dr. Bath, Lawyer Long, Alderman Tubber, and several more.†   (source)
  • He could, on ten hours' notice, appear before the board of aldermen or the state legislature and prove, absolutely, with figures all in rows and with precedents from Poland and New Zealand, that the street-car company loved the Public and yearned over its employees; that all its stock was owned by Widows and Orphans; and that whatever it desired to do would benefit property-owners by increasing rental values, and help the poor by lowering rents.†   (source)
  • If he does not, some one else will; and the saloon-keeper, unless he is also an alderman, is apt to be in debt to the big brewers, and on the verge of being sold out.†   (source)
  • On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia—a junket that was to last ten days.†   (source)
  • Of course a fellow has got to start in modestly, but I may say, sotto voce, that I expect to run for alderman next fall.†   (source)
  • I asked him again now, but he was leaning on the counter in his shirt-sleeves having a deep goster with Alderman Cowley.†   (source)
  • He is more than a highly respectable man: he is marked out as a president of highly respectable men, a chairman among directors, an alderman among councillors, a mayor among aldermen.†   (source)
  • …their full accoutrements, and with badges on their sleeves; then the Garter King-at-arms, in his tabard; then several Knights of the Bath, each with a white lace on his sleeve; then their esquires; then the judges, in their robes of scarlet and coifs; then the Lord High Chancellor of England, in a robe of scarlet, open before, and purfled with minever; then a deputation of aldermen, in their scarlet cloaks; and then the heads of the different civic companies, in their robes of state.†   (source)
  • He is more than a highly respectable man: he is marked out as a president of highly respectable men, a chairman among directors, an alderman among councillors, a mayor among aldermen.†   (source)
  • He got an extra appropriation from the Board of Aldermen; he bullied all the churches and associations into co-operation; he made the newspapers promise to publish three columns of praise each day.†   (source)
  • There had come to Scully a proposition to nominate a certain rich brewer who lived upon a swell boulevard that skirted the district, and who coveted the big badge and the "honorable" of an alderman.†   (source)
  • …in his rear; the King's Guard formed in single ranks on either side, clad in burnished armour; after the Protector followed a seemingly interminable procession of resplendent nobles attended by their vassals; after these came the lord mayor and the aldermanic body, in crimson velvet robes, and with their gold chains across their breasts; and after these the officers and members of all the guilds of London, in rich raiment, and bearing the showy banners of the several corporations.†   (source)
  • Bishop Ridley kneels before him with uplifted hands, as if supplicating a blessing on the event; whilst the Aldermen, etc., with the Lord Mayor, kneel on both sides, occupying the middle ground of the picture; and lastly, in front, are a double row of boys on one side and girls on the other, from the master and matron down to the boy and girl who have stepped forward from their respective rows, and kneel with raised hands before the King.†   (source)
  • In return for this the Republicans would agree to put up no candidate the following year, when Scully himself came up for reelection as the other alderman from the ward.†   (source)
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