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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word manciple? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look. |
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| A manciple was in charge of getting provisions for a college or court. |
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| Despite his lack of education, this Manciple is smarter than the thirty lawyers he feeds. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Extra food obtained from the manciple to be eaten in private was called Battels. |
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| One of Chaucer's pilgrims is a manciple of the Temple, of whom he gives a good character for his skill in purveying. |
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| The satire was too much for the Cook, who became excited, and fell from his horse in his attempts to oppose the manciple. |
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| Paying the barber, the cook, the laundress and the manciple amounted to a further six shillings a year. |
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| He did as soon as Alice said that about whining and grizzling being below the dignity of a Manciple. |
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| There's even an operetta, conducted by the Manciple, in which Apollo brands his musical white crow with black feathers. |
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| The Clerk, the Cook, the Parson and the Manciple are all part of which literary work? |
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| Nun's Priest, the Franklin, the Canon's Yeoman and the Manciple. |
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