Here they stopped, while the tipstaff delivered his papers; and here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

Especially if you put a metal spike on each end (see “tipstaff” in England, as carried by Medieval cops).    From Wordnik.com.  [When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists] Reference

As we were leaving the court, a tipstaff came up to Joe Punchard, and formally arrested him as a runaway 'prentice; at the instance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference

And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 33] Reference

At a door a tipstaff laid his hand roughly on the arm of Mr. Thorndike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Upon A Time] Reference

"Be easy, if Frank does not pitch into the tipstaff, it will not be our fault.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Paris, V3] Reference

Was he fit for nothing but to be employed as a messenger, as a common tipstaff?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)] Reference

They had even proceeded so far as to furnish a tipstaff with the order to clear the rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

The tipstaff approached Mole and hit the offending hat with his stick, but it did not move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference

"I think you will be able to get anything out of him, when you get him there," said the tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden] Reference

Again, in his effort to follow, Mr. Thorndike was halted, but the first tipstaff came to his rescue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Upon A Time] Reference

"That's a very important task - I wouldn't make light of the job that they do," he said of tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference

I asked who brought it, and was told it was the son of the potato-merchant, accompanied by a tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference

TORONTO - The tipstaff has been passed and there's a new commissioner in charge of Ontario's police force.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV BritishColumbiaHome] Reference

As Mr. Pickwick said this, he got into the coach which had by this time arrived, followed by the tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

Godefroy bobbing his tipstaff, M. Radisson must needs run up the French flag in place of the pirate ensign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference

They did not know that as soon as the convict was given in charge of the tipstaff of the court he was led away by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faces and Places] Reference

He was very respectful and polite, and didn't "put on style" half as much as the average Circuit Court tipstaff does.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.] Reference

Angle said he will be scrutinizing whether judges need tipstaff - part-time workers who assist in keeping courtrooms running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Stephen Miller] Reference

That includes the passing of the tipstaff, a staff roughly half-a-metre long topped with a decoration in the shape of a crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV BritishColumbiaHome] Reference

"So does every tipstaff," he answered impatiently, his moustaches bristling as the result of the scornful twist he gave his lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

During which time, there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Atlantis] Reference

The d’Herouvilles are descended from a tipstaff in the time of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modeste Mignon] Reference

Vicomte; at present you appear to be officiating as a-- a tipstaff. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

"` You should have been there yourself, sir, 'observed the tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference

He turned to the tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle] Reference

Godefroy bobs his tipstaff, and bawls on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference

'Nature never intended you for a tipstaff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Red Robe] Reference

Karen D. Krutski, tipstaff / secretary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Times Leader News] Reference

"You musk-stinking tipstaff, I'll --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference