What is "warden"

Usage examples of "warden".

There were bold rumors afoot that Graig had been murdered, and though nothing could be proven, the wardens were taking no more chances.

No son of a bitching Texas gut robber was going to tell Milton Anthony Warden what woman he could go out with and what one he couldnt.

Then you need to tell him to wire the warden at Yuma and ask him what happened to the escaped prisoners from the breakout a week ago.

Like a torrent bursting through a broached dam, the Warden dispatched sequential images unveiling the full course of events.

Milt Warden, who was the one who had suggested Salvatore Clark for the apprentice bugler, after Clark almost shot himself on guard, went on studying his papers, but his eyebrows quivered.

Under the circumstances, Cassan had estimated that there were at least three chances in four that Markhos would have agreed to marry the girl off to the Lord Warden of Transhar rather than risk seeing the Balthar succession collapse into uncertainty.

Warden of the Mint was a profitable sinecure, usually granted to some man who knew little and cared less about coining but who had places in high friends.

I was powerfully reminded of those American motion pictures of the 1930s and 40s, set in some vast and dehumanized state or federal penitentiary, in which the prisoners banged their eating utensils against the bars at the appearance of the tyrannical warden.

Isbaenna realized he was likely Dochau Druery, the reputedly sadistic warden of Gaol.

She was still leaning forward toward him, her arms on the 942 1 fatless so-lovely knees, her eyes shining, her hand that Warden had moved from his mouth still in his hand.

The verses were attributed to one Ghurab, a hunter, or, according to other accounts, warden of the royal fishponds, who lived, in some unspecified century, in the neighbourhood of Karmanshah.

Miss Giggs, that the Warden has your grievance in hand, and it and the offender will be dealt with.

Miss Giggs made her usual excuse of wanting to work when the Warden inquired, gazing like a benevolent snake at the assembled students on the Saturday evening preceding the half-term weekend, how many of them proposed to remain in Hall, but in her case, as in the case of Miss Mathers, it was a question of a heavy railway fare.

That evening Willy Gup told the sweat lodge that the warden reckoned that it was possible that the two murders were the work of the kind of vat-grown assassin used in the Quiet War.

Sergeant Hoong, on hearing this story, mumbled some noncommittal remarks, thinking by himself that thus neither was Warden Pang the criminal.