bedesman

‘I was only coming to ask after your reverence,’ said the old bedesman, touching his hat; ‘and to inquire about the news from London,’ he added after a pause.

The Warden 2004

It was in vain that the late warden endeavoured to comfort the heart of the old bedesman; poor old Bunce felt that his days of comfort were gone.

The Warden 2004

Madden showed all the whole affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of Arbraccan her goodman husband would not let her death whereby they were all wondrous grieved.

Ulysses 2003

When the bedesman had pray'd and the dead bell rung,

Kilmeny 1919

Then young Madden showed all the whole affair and said how that she was dead and how for holy religion sake by rede of palmer and bedesman and for a vow he had made to Saint Ultan of

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The grasp of old Ochiltree, who had appeared on the scene, roused Lovel to movement, and leaving M'Intyre to the care of a surgeon, he followed the bedesman into the recesses of the wood, in order to get away by boat the following morning.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

A medieval underling writing to his superior often signs himself "your servant and bedesman."

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

When the bedesman had pray’d and the dead bell rung,

Kilmeny 1909

When the bedesman had prayed and the dead-bell rung;

Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

They take field after field, house after house; turn the farmer into the beggar, and the beggar into their bedesman.

The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892