Warder

Examples

• So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Another sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Approaching the cell, they find the door opening and a warder in the act of coming out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When the fighting was over there was no one left of our enemies except just the warders, the mates, and the doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He's got two of the warders and Mereer, the second mate, and he'd get the captain himself, if he thought him worth it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Two of the warders were agents of Prendergast, and the second mate was his right-hand man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The two warders had been shot and thrown overboard, and so also had the third mate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Let me go forth, he said to the warders at the door of the hall,--let me go forth! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

Typist: Mason