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Example sentences for "city marshal"

  • He served three years as city marshal of Alamosa, when that town was accounted one of the toughest places in the Southwest, and has been for twenty years deputy sheriff of Conejos county, Colorado.

  • Beginning as city marshal, he held that place for years, and was afterwards deputy United States marshal, sheriff of Arapahoe county eight years and also chief of police.

  • He returns to the line of the Union Pacific extension and to Laramie City, where he for a while acts as city marshal.

  • He next served three years as city marshal of Denver, and in the fall of 1869, was elected sheriff of Arapahoe county.

  • This was a no less important person than the new city marshal, whom Morgan had seen without knowing his official standing, as he arrived at the hotel.

  • Judge Thayer did not give vent to his elation on Seth Craddock's acceptance of the office of city marshal, although his satisfaction gleamed from his eyes and radiated from his kindly face.

  • But there were not men raining down every day around Ascalon competent to fill the office of city marshal.

  • They were a road-worn and dusty crew, growing noisy and hilarious in their celebration of one of their number being elevated to the place of so conspicuous power as city marshal of that famous town.

  • You'll be city marshal of Quicksand as long as she's here to know it.

  • Jest think, now, that little boy of mine has got to be a officer--a city marshal of a whole town!

  • A tall man with a perplexed countenance, wearing a big badge with "City Marshal" engraved upon it, stood over him.

  • After Bill's return from the trip with the Wilson company of wealthy "Yankees," he resumed his duties as city marshal of Hays City.

  • As marshal I'm playin' no favorites--there's no strings to a city marshal.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beautiful young; city called; city clerk; city editor; city government; city life; city marshal; distant lands; great talents; greatest width; hard water; make plain; marriage customs; medical examination; nervous fever; other troops; scarcely need; she would; small octavo; strong fortress; subdued tone; telling himself; then turn; well beaten; wild beasts; would move