All 10 Uses
bailiff
in
Fathers and Sons
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- 'Have you still the same bailiff?'†
Chpt 3 *
- Now I have a bailiff, a townsman; he seems a practical fellow.†
Chpt 3
- Pavel Petrovitch himself felt that his epigram was unsuccessful, and began to talk about husbandry and the new bailiff, who had come to him the evening before to complain that a labourer, Foma, 'was deboshed,' and quite unmanageable.†
Chpt 5
- 'And now I fancy, brother, it's time for us to be going to have a talk with the bailiff.'†
Chpt 6
- Pavel Petrovitch did not long remain present at his brother's interview with his bailiff, a tall, thin man with a sweet consumptive voice and knavish eyes, who to all Nikolai Petrovitch's remarks answered, 'Certainly, sir,' and tried to make the peasants out to be thieves and drunkards.†
Chpt 8
- I manage my property myself; and only fancy, my bailiff Erofay's a wonderful type, quite like Cooper's Pathfinder; something in him so spontaneous!†
Chpt 13
- In the morning, precisely at eight o'clock, all the party assembled for tea; from morning-tea till lunch-time every one did what he pleased, the hostess herself was engaged with her bailiff (the estate was on the rent-system), her steward, and her head housekeeper.†
Chpt 17
- On the morning of that day he had an interview with his father's bailiff, who had taken care of him when he was a child, Timofeitch.†
Chpt 17
- You said, for instance, to-day as we passed our bailiff Philip's cottage—it's the one that's so nice and clean—well, you said, Russia will come to perfection when the poorest peasant has a house like that, and every one of us ought to work to bring it about....And I felt such a hatred for this poorest peasant, this Philip or Sidor, for whom I'm to be ready to jump out of my skin, and who won't even thank me for it ...and why should he thank me?†
Chpt 21
- (It's needless to say what the dinner was like that day; Timofeitch in person had galloped off at early dawn for beef; the bailiff had gone off in another direction for turbot, gremille, and crayfish; for mushrooms alone forty-two farthings had been paid the peasant women in copper); but Arina Vlasyevna's eyes, bent steadfastly on Bazarov, did not express only devotion and tenderness; in them was to be seen sorrow also, mingled with awe and curiosity; there was to be seen too a sort of humble reproachfulness†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(bailiff) court officer responsible for keeping order in the court including custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the United Kingdom, a bailiff is an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.