Ercole Rangoni was a Medici placeman in the College.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Now his placeman is prime minister, to what extent does he hold sway?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary] Reference

Lyons is just another third-rate Labour placeman with his snout in the taxpayers' trough.    From Wordnik.com.  [DO AS I SAY...] Reference

The jovial placeman was to feel the uncertainties of office; and on Lord North's resignation in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

Another Labour source said: "We don't want somebody who could be construed as a Labour placeman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

It was a positive grievance, and indeed it was a partial destruction of the constitution, at the instance of a placeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

      The Government was caught off-guard, support for Weatherill surged and No. 10's plans to install a placeman were scuppered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

An oddly-assorted pair, indeed -- the delicate Italian painter, without a thought outside of his art, and the bluff English placeman, avid of nothing but honors and wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

The placeman alone throve amidst the general distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

Delaware's governor named a placeman to replace Joe Biden.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

So, from a flaming patriot, he sunk into a pensioned placeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference

The portrayal of John as a News International placeman is shameful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Media RSS Feed] Reference

He has been forced into the role of a placeman for a discredited regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Now, it was some prosperous placeman, his equal, or his superior in rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

The party regards Patten as a political placeman, who may insist on severe cutbacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

At the moment the newly appointed placeman had been rather glad that such was the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference

As soon as they have replaced all the Labour placeman blocking the HoL I would imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference

Garfield's assassination by a disappointed placeman added to the public demand for reform, and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

It was assumed that this ambitious and ideologically elastic placeman would merely warm a Cabinet seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

For me, I am a placeman, you know; a very humble one indeed, Heaven knows, but still so much as to gag me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference

Newcastle never counted the cost so long as there was a county member to be bought or a placeman to be satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference

What is this, but a picture of your member of parliament ripening into a minister, your patriot mellowing into your placeman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

And, from the pen of a Irish poet, who is a sinecure placeman, and a protégé of an English peer that has immense parcels of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.] Reference

As if the incompetent clown Blair wasn't a political appointment - hah! he was simply a Nu-Lav placeman, and as useless as all his sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

The sceptic and the zealot, the revolutionist and the placeman, meet on common ground in a gallery of paintings or a laboratory of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference

Bragge Bathurst, the sinecure placeman, the supporter of Pitt and the war, and the decided and distinguished enemy of parliamentary reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3] Reference

Martin was a 'placeman'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biased BBC] Reference

Without mentioning that he is in reality Nu Liebour's media placeman and mouthpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Maguire and the tales of hypocrisy] Reference

He is a long time trouble shooter for Gordon Brown at the Treasury and then becomes Brown’s placeman at the BBC.    From Wordnik.com.  [DON'T FEED THE LYONS...] Reference

EDITOR: To be headed by a Labour placeman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

"The only charge which malice can prefer against me is that I am a placeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

I think I am right now as a placeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference