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Coroner

noun

(In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner)

A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes. Synonym: medical examiner.

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"Coroner" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretty lively man for me to sit on; I admit it," the portly man remarked. "I'm the coroner, and it looks as if ...

— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

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... said, "I daresay you know me by sight, Mr. Sabre. I've seen you about the town. I'm the coroner's officer at Tidborough. You're rather wanted down there. I've been to Brighton after you and followed here and just took a lucky chance on finding you about this part. You're rather wanted down ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

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... said he. "He's an acquaintance of the murdered woman, and it is only right for you to know that you will have to leave him behind when you start for home. All who have been seen entering that alcove this evening will necessarily be detained here till the coroner arrives." ...

— The Woman in the Alcove • Anna Katharine Green

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... is in receipt of eleven shillings a week, three pints of skim milk a day, and a cottage that has been condemned by the sanitary inspector and described as having no bedroom windows. We are not surprised to learn that the coroner, before taking the verdict, asked the house surgeon, who gave evidence, whether he could say that death 'was accelerated by anything.' Our wonder is that the reply was in the negative. The cottage is in ...

— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells

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... Sleepy Cat for years. He had been witness in more than one inquest and did not mean to imperil his importance by slacking now. As he hastened out to trail the long-day bitter enemies, he was framing in his mind the preliminary answers for the coroner. He would be compelled to testify, he felt, that the dead man had showed no sign of intoxication or excitement when he drove his team into the barn—for in the circumstances, the barn boss already figured Barb as the ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

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