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Constable   /kˈɑnstəbəl/   Listen
Constable

noun
1.
A lawman with less authority and jurisdiction than a sheriff.
2.
English landscape painter (1776-1837).  Synonym: John Constable.
3.
A police officer of the lowest rank.  Synonym: police constable.



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"Constable" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice made answer. He could not see the speaker plainly, for his brain was in a whirl. He even wondered in a dull fashion if it were all a dream, and if he would wake in a moment from his uneasy slumber to hear the rain splashing down the gutters and the voice of a constable in his ear ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... relief, I turned and crossed into Randolph Street, and there a constable collared me. I was arguing with him when the first fool came up breathless. They told me I had better explain the matter to the Inspector, and I thought ...
— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome
... punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... disturb his bedtime, or his dinner-hour. After the outbreak, people were naturally anxious to pick up what they could, by arresting 'the great ones.' Of these, Rochester was the greatest; and he and Armourer were arrested at Aylesbury. The resident magistrate gave a warrant to the constable, desiring him to keep safely the bodies of the Earl and his three companions, 'in the name of my Lord Protector.' The warrant was acted upon; the prisoners evidently were 'persons of great quality.' Yet somehow, both ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various
... in New York. And here they were, together again, in his house in Shropshire. To say that the thing struck McEachern as sinister is to put the matter baldly. There was once a gentleman who remarked that he smelt a rat and saw it floating in the air. Ex-constable McEachern smelt a regiment of rats, and the air seemed to ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse


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