"Deputize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whole country on their side, but they're mistaken. They've outdone themselves this time, and a tremendous reaction has set in. Everybody knows you've held an even hand over these warring Picts and Scots, and the court will be glad to deputize you to bring them to justice. The old sheriff is paralyzed. Everybody knows that the assassins are prominent cattle-ranchers, and yet no one dares move. It's up to you fellows, who represent law and order, ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... "I deputize you to act as guard during the day over the remains of Orlando Camp. You are to see to it that no one trespasses within fifty feet of it without an order from me,—or the Governor of ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon |
