Read full poem →him off a raft. He was drowned. Colored people rushed
to a policeman and asked for the arrest of the boys throw-
ing stones. The policeman refused. As the dead body
Dictionary Entry
One who enforces.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “policeman”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →while meaning its opposite? Nothing could be clearer to all concerned
than that i am not a policeman.
Read full poem →Such safe jurisdictions, in truth, as the Illinois rowdies
Step from county to county ahead of the frustrate policeman.
And here you have printers to print what you write and a house
Read full poem →And everyone must live, Christ Perko too,
The pulp-mill, the policeman, magistrate,
The alderman, the precinct captain too,
Read full poem →taken off and the shirt unbuttoned revealing a terrible bruise on
the sternum where the policeman's elbow had struck her--better
however there, though it had nearly broken the breastbone, than on
Read full poem →I want a Policeman
Say to Operator 4 I want a State Policeman
Read full poem →The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his
passage to the centre of the crowd,