bearer

And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,

Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d,

If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d,

But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers,

For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.

I promise to pay the bearer on demand.

Within an hour of our finally deciding to start five litters were brought up to the door of the cave, each accompanied by four regular bearers and two spare hands, also a band of about fifty armed Amahagger, who were to form the escort and carry the baggage.

The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.

a good bearer

[…] Wilt thou know

Th’ effect of what I wrote? […]

An earnest conjuration from the King,

As England was his faithful tributary, […]

That, on the view and knowing of these contents,

Without debatement further, more or less,

He should the bearers put to sudden death,