"And the beadles' wands!""And the spittoons of the deans!""And the cupboards of the procurators!"

"And the stools of the rector!""Down with them!" put in little Jehan, as counterpoint; "down with Master Andry, the beadles and the scribes; the theologians, the doctors and the decretists; the procurators, the electors and the rector!""The end of the world has come!,' muttered Master Andry, stopping up his ears.

So he took the liberty of carrying you off, as though you were made for beadles!

At the same time, the intermittent clash of the iron butts of the beadles' halberds, gradually dying away among the columns of the nave, produced the effect of a clock hammer striking the last hour of the condemned.

Beadles in sentence

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