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sheriff

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Sheriff was a Canadian rock band in the early 1980s, best known for their hit song " When I'm with You ".

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English scirgerefa "representative of royal authority in a shire," from scir (see shire ) + gerefa "chief, official, reeve" (see reeve ). As an American county official, attested from 1660s; sheriff's sale first recorded 1798. Sheriff's tooth (late ...

Usage examples of sheriff.

It is true, the prices assigned by the assize of Richard were meant as a standard for the accompts of sheriffs and escheators and as considerable profits were allowed to these ministers, we may naturally suppose that the common value of cattle was somewhat higher: yet still, so great a difference between the prices of corn and cattle as that of four to one, compared to the present rates, affords important reflections concerning the very different state of industry and tillage in the two periods.

Supervisors and sheriffs using affinity was something he could never get used to.

Moorhouse and Ambler and the sheriff all had the same script and the lines were terrible.

This morning as always his New Lebanon Sheriffs Department shirt was clean and stiff as a sheet of new balsa wood and his beige slacks had razor creases.

My first act as Sheriff will be to install, on the courthouse lawn, a bastinado platform and a set of stocks -- in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion.

Missouri, Egg enlisted the help of the county sheriff to sneak through the press mob besieging his gate.

Sheriff Bouvier is a respected law enforcement officer and did release the skeleton to Melton.

Lord Say, the treasurer, and Cromer, sheriff of Kent, should be punished for their malversations, he would immediately lay down his arms.

Gentry did not like or trust Richard Haines, but he knew no reason for the FBI to suspect a Charleston sheriff in either the airline explosion or Mansard House murders.

One look at Marcie apparently convinced the sheriff that the matter was urgent.

In the same year Thomas Kneseworth, the late mayor, was committed to the Marshalsea, together with the sheriffs who had served under him, and only regained his liberty on payment of a large sum of money.

The sheriff paid forty-five cents total, thirty for the Meatless Tuesday vegetable plate, ten for raisin pie, a nickel for coffee.

A FEW moments later, The Shadow was hearing the misconstructed details of his own disappearance, from the sheriff and the deputies.

Alva Dawson, the ex-deputy sheriff, and Herman Tubick, the mortician, had tied.

Her fork was still there when Sheriff David Mountebank walked in, Martha at his heels offering him food and coffee.