Sentence examples for town constable from inspiring English sources

"This town's getting old, let's put it that way," said Harold Harper, who used to be the town constable, when there was a town constable.

In the emergency operations center in Ridgefield, a town constable, Tom Belote, absorbed some residents' wrath.

The dead woman is also involved with the crude town constable; fearing revenge, father and son flee, pursued by the implausibly relentless constable.

In New York, the Mayor, wearing a tuxedo, reappeared in his hotel lobby in Times Square, along with fifteen other Newfoundlanders who had come down for opening night, including a town constable named Oswald Fudge.

The elegiac tone comes naturally to the narrator, a gentle town constable named Samuel Bradley, who is determined to keep the peace among the white and black residents of Jerusalem's Landing, Vt., during the hard days of the Great Depression.

In "The Awful Truth," Irene Dunne, trying to do in her (almost) ex-husband — Grant — refers to him as Jerry the Nipper; in "Bringing Up Baby," Hepburn, pretending to be a gun moll, tells the town constable that Grant is the notorious Jerry the Nipper.

Mr. Collier said that while town constables still carried out the majority of what would be known today as local police work such as keeping the peace and arresting lawbreakers, sheriffs were taking on greater police powers as the 18th century wore on.

The police in our town meant Constable McClarty, who came to the school to warn us about sledding on the streets in winter and swimming in the mill-race in summer, both of which we continued to do.

Garry Disher hits the ground running with Bitter Wash Road and with more than 40 books to his name why the hell wouldn't he? Gunshots have been reported just out of town and Constable Paul Hirschhausen is sent to investigate.

Plans also call for a 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foot 2,500-square-foottown's buildingtable and the Fire Department's dive and rescue operations.

Given my novice status, before we went I had paid a visit to Andy Koch, the town's shellfish constable (yes, that's his real title) to learn the ground rules.