Excited by this theme, and elated by his success, my father went on:- "If you want a boy to ride, you don't limit him to the quiet hackney that neither pulls nor shies, neither bolts nor plunges; and so, if you wish your son to know his fellow-men, you don't keep him in a charmed circle of deans and archdeacons, but you throw him fearlessly into contact with old debauchees like Hotham, or abandoned scamps of the style of Cleremont,"-and here he had to wait till the laughter subsided to add, "and, last of all, you take care to provide him with a finishing tutor like Eccles."
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
For ere the bishop caught them on his hook, They were down in the archdeacons book.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
Do archdeacons have maids?
"The Inca of Perusalem"
George Bernard Shaw