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1876 ‘G. Eliot’Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 132 A narrow beadle-watched portal.
1877 E. Thomas tr. F. A. Lange Hist. Materialism (1880) II. 245 The magnificent abstraction..performed the meanest beadle-offices long enough to excite a universal distrust of philosophy.