Functionary

Examples

• Hollo,' said that eccentric functionary, 'furniter's cheap where you come from, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was a chairman to regulate the proceedings, and this functionary now took the case into his own hands. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• On glancing at the address, the parochial functionary observed that it contained no name. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Emigrant, said the functionary, I am going to send you on to Paris, under an escort. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is always as the good patriot says, observed the functionary. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Don't, replied that functionary. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is a functionary whose existence, in the natural course of things, would have terminated about two hundred years ago. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate successfully. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The little party was taken into the house of some village functionary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is as the good patriot says, observed the timid functionary. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Awakened by a timid local functionary and three armed patriots in rough red caps and with pipes in their mouths, who sat down on the bed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He produced from his coat pockets a long and narrow strip of parchment, on which the presiding functionary impressed an illegible black stamp. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The less aristocratic officers of the 97th devoted themselves to the families of the less important functionaries from the dockyard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I don't think it would exonerate him, either with them, or with legal functionaries of a higher grade. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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