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usher 1. a person who acts as doorkeeper, esp in a court of law 2. (in England) a minor official charged with maintaining order in a court of law 3. Brit obsolete a teacher How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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said Mr Usher dryly, and handing across another scrap of newspaper. I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain. The two ushers at Tom's first school were not gentlemen, and very poorly educated, and were only driving their poor trade of usher to get such living as they could out of it. |
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