"Deputy sheriff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carefully carried out. They eventually went through Tracy as pay passengers, six hours after the local deputy sheriff had given up his task of searching the trains. With an excess of precaution Young Dick paid beyond Tracy and as far as Modesto. After that, under the teaching of Tim, he traveled without paying, riding blind baggage, box cars, and cow-catchers. ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... done easily. You have Lauman where he can't do anything, and I'm not of much account in a fight; so you've really only one deputy sheriff and two women to get the best of. You could drag these men out and hang them in the cottonwoods, and they couldn't raise a hand to defend themselves. We could do it easily—but when it was done and the excitement had passed I'd have a picture in my memory ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... was in my park, lying on my belly, reading Josephus, I was aware of the deputy sheriff, Small, whom I knew, ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... startling answer. "Sergeant of the guard, shoot these men like dogs if they attempt to escape. We sha'n't waste time trying to prove you sold arms. What we can prove, and will prove, and by your own man, too, and hang you high as Haman for it, is that Pete Gamble, deputy sheriff, caught you at your devilish work, and you ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... told him he had not taken my hand, and that it would not be paid, as my offer was conditioned on a settlement of all questions between them and the Government. About six o'clock, Yellow Quill and his Councillors sent me the following message which had been written for them by Mr. Deputy Sheriff Setter from their dictation. ...
— The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba - and the North-West Territories • Alexander Morris
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