1 In the early autumn, news came from Wakamin that the sheriff had forbidden an organizer for the National Nonpartisan League to speak anywhere in the county.
2 The organizer had defied the sheriff, and announced that in a few days he would address a farmers' political meeting.
3 , in May, had outraged the sheriff's eight-year-old daughter.
4 When we got there, we were delivered up to the sheriff, Mr. Joseph Graham, and by him placed in jail.
5 I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.
6 There was another pause, and then the judge arrived and the sheriff proclaimed the opening of the court.
7 They got a posse together, and went off to guard the river bank, and as soon as it is light the sheriff and a gang are going to beat up the woods.
8 But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff 's officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost.'
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 9 MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in this bailiwick.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 10 Until last year he had good luck renting; then cotton fell, and the sheriff seized and sold all he had.
11 If such a peon should run away, the sheriff, elected by white suffrage, can usually be depended on to catch the fugitive, return him, and ask no questions.
12 She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff's man.
13 Only sheriffs and bishops and rich people and kings, and such like.
14 Excitement was at fever beat until the morning papers, two days after, announced that the wounded deputy sheriffs were out of danger.