manciple
Example Sentences
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They all converge on Manciple, who alone seems to have the clues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enter the amateur, in this case Insurance Investigator Peter Manciple, who knows Devonshire like the back of his hand: he attended public school there, and was dubbed "Mathematics" Manciple by one professor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next follow the Friar and Monk; then the Tapiser, the Pardoner, and the Sompnour and Manciple.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
Set his hove; like "set their caps;" as in the description of the Manciple in the Prologue, who "set their aller cap".
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
Bacchus, Bacchus! blessed be thy name,That thus canst turn our earnest into game.Worship and thanks be to thy deity.So on this head ye get no more from me.Tell on thy tale, Manciple, I thee pray.”
From Playful Poems by Morley, Henry
