deputy sheriff

Historical Examples

• "And fights like a devil," replied Dan Treu, the deputy-sheriff.

  The Lady Doc

  Caroline Lockhart

• Because Cotton's a deputy-sheriff; he had a right to arrest you.

  King Coal

  Upton Sinclair

• Sillett had levelled a pistol at the deputy-sheriff, repeating his words with one addition: "Quick!"

  Bunch Grass

  Horace Annesley Vachell

• My friend, deputy-sheriff like me, found himself in this hell of--I mean in this terrible tight place.

  Bunch Grass

  Horace Annesley Vachell

• As most of them had never seen the play, they were not surprised when Holden did not again join the attack on the deputy-sheriff.

  Northern Lights

  Gilbert Parker