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Marshals

noun

1.

The United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system. Synonyms: United States Marshals Service, US Marshals Service.

Marshal

noun

1.

A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law. Synonym: marshall.

2.

(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank. Synonym: marshall.

verb

(past & past part. marshaled or marshalled; pres. part. marshaling or marshalling)

1.

Place in proper rank.

2.

Arrange in logical order.

3.

Make ready for action or use. Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon.

4.

Lead ceremoniously, as in a procession.

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"Marshals" Quotes from Famous Books

... The death of this distinguished Marshal-General of France served to recall some of the brightest glories of Napoleonic days. Born in 1769 at St. Amans-la-Bastide, Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult joined the royal army of France at the age of sixteen. He served as a sous-lieutenant under Marshals Lukner and Ustine, and so distinguished himself that he soon won his steps and was attached as adjutant-general to Marshal Lefebvre's staff. As a brigadier-general he turned the tide of victory at the battle ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... a fugitive slave named Ad White resisted the attempt of the slavehunters to take him, in 1857, and fired upon one of the United States marshals, whose life was saved by the negro's bullet striking against the marshal's gunbarrel. The people and their officers took the slave's side, and the case was fought in and out of court. The sheriff of the county was brutally beaten with a slungshot by the marshal who had ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... the Supreme Commander of the Order in the United States. This Order inaugurated the new warfare at the instance of the Southern rebel leaders—inaugurated assassination. This order began with Provost Marshals and enrolling officers, and ended—if indeed the loyal people will it to have ended—with the assassination of the best, the wisest, the most deeply loved President since the immortal Washington. It is the education of Copperhead prints, and Copperhead ...

— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... with this constant ringing, pealing, and crashing from above, mingled the high, clear voices of the choir of nuns in the convent, beseeching in fervent litanies the help of their patron saint. True, the singing was often drowned by the noise from the street, for the fire marshals and quartermasters had been informed in time, and watchmen, soldiers in the pay of the city, men from the hospital, and the abandoned women (required by law to help put out the fires) came in little groups, while bailiffs and servants of the ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... the earth; every detail was gone into with harrowing minuteness. The Hemisphere Company announced by telegraph that it stood ready to hand over the ten thousand dollars; and the sheriff of Bramble County with all the United States deputy marshals within reach raced at once to Tinkletown to stick a finger in ...

— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon

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