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n. - The office of a high ranking police officer

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  • Striving towards inspectorship, Brian Holmes would find himself working still longer hours.
  • Then he died, and Mrs. Wilson was deservedly appointed to a custom-house inspectorship by the American Government.
  • Had Governor Seward known, in 1838, that Mr. Greeley coveted an inspectorship, he certainly would have received it.
  • We shall get thee out of the army, appoint thee to the police bureau, and procure for thee an inspectorship of customs; and, in fine, allow thee to move in a better...
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