minion of the law

American  

noun

1. a policeman.

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Example Sentences

The German minion of the law Is stern, inflexible, austere.

From Project Gutenberg

But logic "is a minion of the law, not its master."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week it became known that Henry Ford for the first time in many years had been reached by a minion of the law.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had not, on the one hand, like a minion of the law, undertaken to see Mrs. Gereth down to the train and locked, in sign of her abdication, into a compartment; neither had she on the other committed herself to hold Owen indefinitely in dalliance while his mother gained time or dug a counter-mine.

From Project Gutenberg

His years as a minion of the law had adequately conditioned him to the utter boredom that went with the ordinary stake-out.

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