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Graham B. (Australia)
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  1. beadle
    a minor parish official who serves smaller church functions
    But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self-devotional.
  2. workhouse
    a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
    TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH

    Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to t...
  3. stipendiary
    receiving or eligible for compensation
    Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?'
  4. stupefy
    make someone dazed or foolish
    He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper.
  5. pauper
    a person who is very poor
    There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
  6. snappish
    apt to speak irritably
    To these interrogations Mr. Bumble returned very brief and snappish replies; for the temporary blandness which gin-and-water awakens in some bosoms had by this time evaporated; and he was once again a beadle.
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