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  • He spoke not another word to her informally, becoming all business again as he instructed her to write out a memorandum to SS Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Hartjenstein, commanding officer of the SS garrison, directing that a search be made for the candlesticks in the enlisted barracks and that every effort be exerted to apprehend the culprits, who would then be placed in custody of the camp provost marshal for discipline.†   (source)
  • Meade had ordered every soldier to action, even the Provost Guards.†   (source)
  • The provost is a cruel man and he doesn't like the 'Punjabis,' as he calls us.†   (source)
  • The provost of Georgia Perimeter College, a community college just outside the city limits of Clarkston, agreed to provide an auditorium and to act as a moderator.†   (source)
  • "And this," said the Provost a moment later, "is Hypnopaedic Control Room."†   (source)
  • We did it to show our appreciation of his talking the provost guard out of putting us in jail.†   (source)
  • "No, that one," corrected the Provost, annoyed.†   (source)
  • You and your girls will have to appear before the provost marshal tomorrow.†   (source)
  • The Provost turned towards him a still broadly grinning face.†   (source)
  • Will the provost make them pay for my mirrors?†   (source)
  • You were wonderful before the provost marshal today, Mrs. Watling!†   (source)
  • Dr. Gaffney, the Provost, and Miss Keate, the Head Mistress, received them as they stepped out of the plane.†   (source)
  • eulogy and epitaph, out of some bitter and implacable reserve of undefeat; and these from a woman whose family's martial background as both town and county knew consisted of the father who, a conscientious objector on religious grounds, had starved to death in the attic of his own house, hidden (some said, walled up) there from Confederate provost marshals' men and fed secretly at night by this same daughter who at the very time was accumulating her first folio in which the lost cause's unregenerate vanquished were name by name embalmed; and the nephew who served for four years in the same company with his sister's fiance and then shot the fiance to death before the gates to the house wher†   (source)
  • The provost guard took them up there and if it hadn't been for Ashley's slick tongue, they'd have spent Christmas in jail.†   (source)
  • His father turned, and he followed the stiff black coat, the wiry figure walking a little stiffly from where a Confederate provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty years ago, followed the two backs now, since between the two lines of grim-faced men and out of the store and across the worn gallery and down the sagging steps and among the dogs and half-grown boys in the mild May dust, where as he passed a voice hissed: "Barn burner!"†   (source)
  • It was not her character: despite the probably six years since she had actually seen him and certainly the four years which she had spent feeding her father secretly at night while he hid from Confederate provost marshals in the attic and at the same time writing heroic poetry about the very men from whom her father was hiding and who would have shot him or hung him without trial if they had found him—and incidentally of whom the ogre of her childhood made one and (he brought home with him a citation for valor in Lee's own hand) a good one—the face whic†   (source)
  • "Oh, no," the Provost answered.†   (source)
  • There were hundreds of men skulking in the swamps and the mountains, defying the provost guard to drag them back to the army.†   (source)
  • The Provost opened a door.†   (source)
  • Will you tell your brother that he must appear before the provost marshal tomorrow morning for questioning?†   (source)
  • Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.†   (source)
  • Pretty soon, though, we 'll meet a-plenty of guards an' provost-guards, an' one thing an' another.†   (source)
  • "I am sorry for that," said the provost, "but it is the king's good pleasure."†   (source)
  • "Come!" repeated the provost, "the gap is wide enough.†   (source)
  • You are provost of the marshals; you have the men of your provostship: you will take them.†   (source)
  • For that was Provost Tristan's way at executions.†   (source)
  • Possibly, the redoubtable provost felt his heart also failing him.†   (source)
  • This was too much; the provost could no longer restrain himself.†   (source)
  • The provost swore,— "~Tête de Christ~!†   (source)
  • The unanimous testimony of the men of the watch confirmed the old sergeant's words to the provost.†   (source)
  • Let me have the other, madam; 'tis monsieur the provost who wills it.†   (source)
  • The effort was powerful, prodigious, desperate; but the provost's seasoned bonds resisted.†   (source)
  • The provost turned and fixed his flashing eyes once more on Quasimodo.†   (source)
  • "Monseigneur," he said, returning to the provost, "which am I to take?"†   (source)
  • Rennet returned once more to the provost in great embarrassment.†   (source)
  • At that moment she heard a voice saying to the provost: "~Corboeuf~!†   (source)
  • "'S death!" said the provost, "what an appetite for the rack!†   (source)
  • "Old woman," said the provost, in a severe tone, "deliver up to us that girl quietly."†   (source)
  • During the next week or two he accordingly placed himself in such positions about the city as would afford him glimpses of several of the most distinguished among the provosts, wardens, and other heads of houses; and from those he ultimately selected five whose physiognomies seemed to say to him that they were appreciative and far-seeing men.†   (source)
  • "I don't care a damn," he was saying, "for any provost, warden, principal, fellow, or cursed master of arts in the university!†   (source)
  • It is true that the mystery was to last from noon until four o'clock, in accordance with the orders of monsieur the provost, and that it was necessary to say something.†   (source)
  • "If thou refusest my fair proffer," said the Prince, "the Provost of the lists shall cut thy bowstring, break thy bow and arrows, and expel thee from the presence as a faint-hearted craven."†   (source)
  • How did it happen that such a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of the legitimate princes?†   (source)
  • Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, after having had an entertainment at my house and enjoying themselves very much, created such a disturbance that the provost of the castle, a rigid man, has ordered them to be confined for some days; but I accomplish the order they have given me by forwarding to you a dozen bottles of my Anjou wine, with which they are much pleased.†   (source)
  • Immediately the aldermen, clothed in their cloth robes and preceded by six sergeants, each holding a FLAMBEAU in his hand, went to attend upon the king, whom they met on the steps, where the provost of the merchants made him the speech of welcome—a compliment to which his Majesty replied with an apology for coming so late, laying the blame upon the cardinal, who had detained him till eleven o'clock, talking of affairs of state.†   (source)
  • "Now, Locksley," said Prince John to the bold yeoman, with a bitter smile, "wilt thou try conclusions with Hubert, or wilt thou yield up bow, baldric, and quiver, to the Provost of the sports?"†   (source)
  • In any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. Gedeon le Provost, or with the curate of the parish.†   (source)
  • The sports were regulated by an officer of inferior rank, termed the Provost of the Games; for the high rank of the marshals of the lists would have been held degraded, had they condescended to superintend the sports of the yeomanry.†   (source)
  • "Ho, hé!" continued the man with a huge laugh, which was still more brutal than that of the provost, "we shall not have far to go."†   (source)
  • "That is suspicious," said the provost.†   (source)
  • "The devil!" went on the soldier, flattered by the provost's praise, "these fractures of the iron are perfectly fresh."†   (source)
  • was that he was also accompanied by the provost of Paris and the chevalier of the watch, who appeared to be in consternation.†   (source)
  • The provost addressed him with severity, "What have you done that you have been brought hither, knave?"†   (source)
  • An old, gray-haired sergeant of the guard stepped out of the ranks, and addressing the provost,— "Mad in sooth, monseigneur.†   (source)
  • Monsieur the provost and monsieur the chevalier of the watch, who have just come from the riot, are here to give me the lie if this is not the truth.†   (source)
  • Five or six of the provost's men armed themselves with picks and crowbars, and Tristan betook himself, in company with them, towards the window.†   (source)
  • The poor fellow, supposing that the provost was asking his name, broke the silence which he habitually preserved, and replied, in a harsh and guttural voice, "Quasimodo."†   (source)
  • A table studded with fleurs-de-lis stood at one end, with a large arm-chair of carved oak, which belonged to the provost and was empty, and a stool on the left for the auditor, Master Florian.†   (source)
  • And not only had Messire Robert d'Estouteville his special court as provost and vicomte of Paris; but in addition he had a share, both for eye and tooth, in the grand court of the king.†   (source)
  • The bailiff of the courts is bound to deliver the malefactor ready judged for execution if he be a layman, to the provost of Paris; if a clerk, to the official of the bishopric.†   (source)
  • Soon Michel Noiret, sworn trumpeter to the king, our lord, imposed silence on the louts, and proclaimed the sentence, in accordance with the order and command of monsieur the provost.†   (source)
  • "Sire," replied the provost of Paris, "I imagine that since the populace has come to tear her from her asylum in Notre-Dame, 'tis because that impunity wounds them, and they desire to hang her."†   (source)
  • "Bellringer!" interpolated the provost, who had waked up early enough to be in a sufficiently bad temper, as we have said, not to require to have his fury inflamed by such strange responses.†   (source)
  • "Come, now," repeated the provost.†   (source)
  • We find, among others in the accounts of the provost's office for 1466, a curious detail concerning the expenses of the trial of Gillet-Soulart and his sow, "executed for their demerits," at Corbeil.†   (source)
  • "That is in the opposite direction," said the provost, "and it is not very likely that she would wish to re-enter the city, where she was being pursued.†   (source)
  • Placed between the provost and the mother, both threatening, the soldiers hesitated for a moment, then took their resolution, and advanced towards the Rat-Hole.†   (source)
  • I am not a clerk of the court, and I shall not go to law with you for thus carrying a dagger in Paris, in the teeth of the ordinances and prohibitions of M. the Provost.†   (source)
  • An honorable man is Gilles Lecornu, brother of Master Jehan Lecornu, provost of the king's house, son of Master Mahiet Lecornu, first porter of the Bois de Vincennes,—all bourgeois of Paris, all married, from father to son.†   (source)
  • Monsieur, the grand provost.†   (source)
  • Do you know that I am called Florian Barbedienne, actual lieutenant to monsieur the provost, and, moreover, commissioner, inquisitor, controller, and examiner, with equal power in provostship, bailiwick, preservation, and inferior court of judicature?†   (source)
  • It had been cried, to the sound of the trumpet, the preceding evening at all the cross roads, by the provost's men, clad in handsome, short, sleeveless coats of violet camelot, with large white crosses upon their breasts.†   (source)
  • "That," replied Oudarde dryly, "does not prevent the Flemings having very fine horses, and having had a superb supper yesterday with monsieur, the provost of the merchants, at the Hôtel-de-Ville, where they were served with comfits and hippocras, and spices, and other singularities."†   (source)
  • This was produced by the buffet of an archer, or the horse of one of the provost's sergeants, which kicked to restore order; an admirable tradition which the provostship has bequeathed to the constablery, the constablery to the ~maréchaussée~, the ~maréchaussée~ to our ~gendarmeri~ of Paris.†   (source)
  • It was he who went to seek M. de Nemours at the Bastille Saint Antoine, in order to conduct him to the Halles; and to conduct to the Grève M. de Saint-Pol, who clamored and resisted, to the great joy of the provost, who did not love monsieur the constable.†   (source)
  • The clerk presented the sentence to the provost, who affixed his seal to it, and departed to pursue his round of the audience hall, in a frame of mind which seemed destined to fill all the jails in Paris that day.†   (source)
  • God knows where and when Master Florian would have landed, when thus launched at full speed in lofty eloquence, if the low door at the extreme end of the room had not suddenly opened, and given entrance to the provost in person.†   (source)
  • At his entrance Master Florian did not stop short, but, making a half-turn on his heels, and aiming at the provost the harangue with which he had been withering Quasimodo a moment before,— "Monseigneur," said he, "I demand such penalty as you shall deem fitting against the prisoner here present, for grave and aggravated offence against the court."†   (source)
  • Nothing was to be heard but imprecations on the Flemish, the provost of the merchants, the Cardinal de Bourbon, the bailiff of the courts, Madame Marguerite of Austria, the sergeants with their rods, the cold, the heat, the bad weather, the Bishop of Paris, the Pope of the Fools, the pillars, the statues, that closed door, that open window; all to the vast amusement of a band of scholars and lackeys scattered through the mass, who mingled with all this discontent their teasing remarks, and their malicious suggestions, and pricked the general bad temper with a pin, so to speak.†   (source)
  • After the brilliant failure of his first theatrical venture, he dared not return to the lodging which he occupied in the Rue Grenier-sur-l'Eau, opposite to the Port-au-Foin, having depended upon receiving from monsieur the provost for his epithalamium, the wherewithal to pay Master Guillaume Doulx-Sire, farmer of the taxes on cloven-footed animals in Paris, the rent which he owed him, that is to say, twelve sols parisian; twelve times the value of all that he possessed in the world, including his trunk-hose, his shirt, and his cap.†   (source)
  • clear water of the fishponds, all in folds of light and shade; many courtyards of which one beheld picturesque bits; the Hôtel of the Lions, with its low, pointed arches on short, Saxon pillars, its iron gratings and its perpetual roar; shooting up above the whole, the scaleornamented spire of the Ave-Maria; on the left, the house of the Provost of Paris, flanked by four small towers, delicately grooved, in the middle; at the extremity, the Hôtel Saint-Pol, properly speaking, with its multiplied façades, its successive enrichments from the time of Charles V., the hybrid excrescences, with which the fancy of the architects had loaded it during the last two centuries, with all the apses o†   (source)
  • Neglecting here the originalities, of secondary importance in old Paris, and the capricious regulations regarding the public highways, we will say, from a general point of view, taking only masses and the whole group, in this chaos of communal jurisdictions, that the island belonged to the bishop, the right bank to the provost of the merchants, the left bank to the Rector; over all ruled the provost of Paris, a royal not a municipal official.†   (source)
  • Imagine, in fact, at the provost's table, leaning upon his elbows between two bundles of documents of cases, with his foot on the train of his robe of plain brown cloth, his face buried in his hood of white lamb's skin, of which his brows seemed to be of a piece, red, crabbed, winking, bearing majestically the load of fat on his cheeks which met under his chin, Master Florian Barbedienne, auditor of the Châtelet.†   (source)
  • To Henriet Cousin, master executor of the high works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to him assessed and ordained by monseigneur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condemned for their demerits, and he hath caused the same to be garnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and set in order the old sword, which had become broken and notched in executing justice on Messire Louis de Luxembourg, as will more fully appear .†   (source)
  • It is true that Robert d'Estouteville was a good soldier, that he had loyally raised his pennon against "the league of public good," and that he had presented to the queen a very marvellous stag in confectionery on the day of her entrance to Paris in 14... Moreover, he possessed the good friendship of Messire Tristan l'Hermite, provost of the marshals of the king's household.†   (source)
  • His lieutenants, civil, criminal, and private, were doing his work, according to usage; and from eight o'clock in the morning, some scores of bourgeois and ~bourgeoises~, heaped and crowded into an obscure corner of the audience chamber of Embas du Châtelet, between a stout oaken barrier and the wall, had been gazing blissfully at the varied and cheerful spectacle of civil and criminal justice dispensed by Master Florian Barbedienne, auditor of the Châtelet, lieutenant of monsieur the provost, in a somewhat confused and utterly haphazard manner.†   (source)
  • of torture, permanent and riveted to the pavement, the Grève, the Halles, the Place Dauphine, the Cross du Trahoir, the Marché aux Pourceaux, that hideous Montfauçon, the barrier des Sergents, the Place aux Chats, the Porte Saint-Denis, Champeaux, the Porte Baudets, the Porte Saint Jacques, without reckoning the innumerable ladders of the provosts, the bishop of the chapters, of the abbots, of the priors, who had the decree of life and death,—without reckoning the judicial drownings in the river Seine; it is consoling to-day, after having lost successively all the pieces of its armor, its luxury of torment, its penalty of imagination and fancy, its torture for which it reconstructed ever†   (source)
  • Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of Paris, where one learns that Oudard de Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of Sainte-Geneviève his houses in the Rue Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hôtel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic facts.†   (source)
  • and going, as he was wont to do every evening, to that charming house situated in the Rue Galilee, in the enclosure of the royal palace, which he held in right of his wife, Madame Ambroise de Lore, to repose after the fatigue of having sent some poor wretch to pass the night in "that little cell of the Rue de Escorcherie, which the provosts and aldermen of Paris used to make their prison; the same being eleven feet long, seven feet and four inches wide, and eleven feet high?"†   (source)
  • The head of a mere college may be a /president/, /principal/, /rector/, /dean/ or /provost/.†   (source)
  • Provost's house.†   (source)
  • By the provost's wall came jauntily Blazes Boylan, stepping in tan shoes and socks with skyblue clocks to the refrain of My girl's a Yorkshire girl.†   (source)
  • This last honorific belongs, not only to [Pg120] privy councillors, but also to all peers lower than marquesses (those above are /Most Hon./), to Lord Mayors during their terms of office, to the Lord Advocate and to the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow.†   (source)
  • In the church, Roman, Anglican or Nonconformist: exemplars, the very reverend John Conmee S. J., the reverend T. Salmon, D. D., provost of Trinity college, Dr Alexander J. Dowie.†   (source)
  • John Howard Parnell example the provost of Trinity every mother's son don't talk of your provosts and provost of Trinity women and children cabmen priests parsons fieldmarshals archbishops.†   (source)
  • John Howard Parnell example the provost of Trinity every mother's son don't talk of your provosts and provost of Trinity women and children cabmen priests parsons fieldmarshals archbishops.†   (source)
  • Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to prison: and there's Madam Juliet.†   (source)
  • As near the dawning, Provost, as it is, You shall hear more ere morning.†   (source)
  • My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here with the Provost.†   (source)
  • Thanks, Provost, for thy care and secrecy; We shall employ thee in a worthier place.†   (source)
  • [Re-enter the DUKE in his friar's habit, and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • [Enter DUKE, habited like a Friar, and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • [PROVOST returns, speaking to one at the door.†   (source)
  • [Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, PETER, and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • The best and wholesom'st spirits of the night Envelop you, good provost!†   (source)
  • [Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, PETER, and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • [Enter ESCALUS, PROVOST, BAWD, and Officers.†   (source)
  • [Re-enter PROVOST, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO (muffled) and JULIET.†   (source)
  • Has censur'd him Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath A warrant for his execution.†   (source)
  • [Enter PROVOST, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers; LUCIO and two Gentlemen.†   (source)
  • — First, Provost, let me bail these gentle three:— Sneak not away, sir[To Lucio.]†   (source)
  • [Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, a JUSTICE, PROVOST, Officers, and other Attendants.†   (source)
  • The provost knows our purpose and our plot.†   (source)
  • — Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded At an unusual hour?†   (source)
  • This is a gentle provost: seldom when The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.†   (source)
  • And the grand provost, turning to Farfarello, who was rolling his eyes as if to strike, said, "Get thee away, wicked bird!"†   (source)
  • The Margrave of Bruges was their head, and the chief man among them; but he that was esteemed the wisest, and that spoke for the rest, was George Temse, the Provost of Casselsee: both art and nature had concurred to make him eloquent: he was very learned in the law; and, as he had a great capacity, so, by a long practice in affairs, he was very dexterous at unravelling them.†   (source)
  • The Christian folk, that through the streete went,
    In came, for to wonder on this thing:
    And hastily they for the provost sent.†   (source)
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    With torment, and with shameful death each one
    The provost did* these Jewes for to sterve** *caused **die
    That of this murder wist, and that anon;
    He woulde no such cursedness observe* *overlook
    Evil shall have that evil will deserve;
    Therefore with horses wild he did them draw,
    And after that he hung them by the law.†   (source)
  • [Knocking within—PROVOST goes out.†   (source)
  • Enter at opposite doors DUKE, VARRIUS, Lords; ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, PROVOST, Officers, and Citizens.]†   (source)
  • [The PROVOST lays hands on the DUKE.†   (source)
  • More of him anon. There is written in your brow, Provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but in the boldness of my cunning I will lay myself in hazard.†   (source)
  • [Enter DUKE, CLAUDIO, and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt LUCIO, ISABELLA, PROVOST.†   (source)
  • Would lie were here, my lord; for he indeed Hath set the women on to this complaint: Your provost knows the place where he abides, And he may fetch him.†   (source)
  • Now, what's the matter, provost?†   (source)
  • [Enter PROVOST and a SERVANT.†   (source)
  • Friar, where is the provost?†   (source)
  • — Proclaim it, Provost, round about the city, If any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,— As I have heard him swear himself there's one Whom he begot with child,—let her appear, And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd, Let him be whipp'd and hang'd.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt ESCALUS and PROVOST.†   (source)
  • Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered, Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished with divines, and have all charitable preparation: if my brother wrought by my pity it should not be so with him.†   (source)
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  • —Go with him, Provost.†   (source)
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  • Now will I write letters to Angelo,— The provost, he shall bear them,—whose contents Shall witness to him I am near at home, And that, by great injunctions, I am bound To enter publicly: him I'll desire To meet me at the consecrated fount, A league below the city; and from thence, By cold gradation and well-balanced form.†   (source)
  • —Where is the provost?†   (source)
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  • I am the provost.†   (source)
  • [Re-enter PROVOST.†   (source)
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  • [Exit PROVOST.†   (source)
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  • [Enter PROVOST and CLOWN.†   (source)
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