Stephen now remembered he had said his name was Manciple.

Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man's rudeness.

Then Manciple said, without touching her, without even bending down, "She's dead all right."

Manciple disappeared and Stephen was questioned by a chief superintendent called Malm.

"To be frank with you," said Manciple,"there's a young woman missing from Jackley.

There's a manciple with a great hoop of keys, and he's the only person who can let you into it, the jumped-up tosser.

The Manciple ends by saying it is best to hold one's tongue, and not to say anything malicious even if it is true.

It was the other man, who rose now from his squatting position to be identified as Inspector Manciple, who spoke to him.

It was what, half-consciously, he had been longing to do since he had got out of the van and talked to Manciple.

"Is that a fact?" said Manciple, and the sergeant said, "You'll maybe be getting a bit of money out of this series, then?"

Having it would seem obtained a training as a land surveyor, he was manciple of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by 1628.

"This nudist is Dennis Manciple.

St. Stephen's parish church, Manciple Street, Southwark, 1859 (demolished 1965)

Wisdom and 'The Manciple's Tale'.

The Manciple's Tale is a story of a purchasing agent for a law court telling a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow.

The Manciple's Tale is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

In 1864 Gustav Batthyány sell the castle to his manciple Edward O'Egan, whose heirs finally sold the castle to Eduard von Almásy.

The Manciple digresses to say that one cannot tame a creature to remove its essential nature; no matter how well-fed a tame cat may be, it will still attack mice instinctively.

Related to it is hospodář referring to a person, that manage some property (e.g. steward, major-domo, bailiff, manciple or bursar), especially in agriculture (e.g. husbandman, farmer, landowner).

Various parts of Pannipitiya belongs to different manciple councils and "Pradesheeya Sabah" (The name for Local Authorities) such as Maharagama, Kasbawa, Homagama.

He parked in Loomlade and took the path that ran between Loomlade Foin and Big Allen, the direction in which Manciple had surely indicated the party was veering.

The Host later calls upon the Cook for another tale; but he is too drunk and, after he falls from his horse and is helped back up, the Manciple tells a tale.

Some sound so real that they flit past like butterflies or called strikes, only to awaken us in the middle of the night with the realization that they cannot be: halcoid, subuculate, Chief Manciple.

The Manciple insults the Cook, who falls semi-conscious from his horse, but they are reconciled by the Host and the Manciple offers the Cook another drink to make up.

After the meal, The Miller and The Cook continue drinking, and at the suggestion of the Pardoner, sing loudly, inciting reprimand from The Summoner, The Yeoman, The Manciple and The Reeve.