Staffe

Distinctions such as these were bread and butter to Baroness Staffe, the self-appointed 19th-century arbiter of what was and wasn't comme il faut the done thing.

A Nation Holding Out for a Hero Lennox Morrison 2011

In fact, Baroness Staffe wasn't an aristocrat at all but plain Blanche Soyer, a product of the middle classes, who had assumed the title as her nom de plume.

A Nation Holding Out for a Hero Lennox Morrison 2011

Pasimonda, with an huge long Staffe in his hand, to hinder their passage downe the stayres; but Chynon saluted him so soundly on the head, that it being cleft in twaine, he fell dead before his feete.

The Decameron 2004

Staffe in our vulgare Poesie I know not why it should be so called, unless it be for that we vnderstand it for a bearer or supporter of a song or ballad, not vnlike the old weake bodie, that is stayed vp by his staffe, and were not otherwise able to walke or to stand vpright.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And this our proportion Poeticall resteth in fiue points: Staffe, Measure,

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Aboute the tyme of the death of Kinge James or presently after, he was made L'd Steward of his Majestys house, that the Staffe of Chamberlyne might be putt into the hands of his brother, the Earle of Mountgomery, upon a new contracte of frendshipp with the Duke of

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

There was falling out between Grene and Hudson the master, and between Wilson the surgeon and Hudson, and between Staffe and Hudson, but no mutiny was in question, until of a sudden the said Grene and his consorts forced the said Hudson and the rest into the shallop, and left them in the ice.

Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

At the putting out of the men, the ship's carpenter [Staffe] asked the company if they would be [wished to be] hanged, when they came to England.

Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

Hudson and Staffe were the best friends he had in the ship.

Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

Hudson and Staffe were the best friends he had in the ship.

Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements 1881