Meanings of perform the office in English

No Maltese could be found willing to perform the office of executioner.

No one can perform the office of a guide better than she.'

Have we not seen in India, ourang-outangs trained to perform the office of domestics?

She resolved to ask the Governor of the prison if she might herself perform the office.

What induces Mr. Axtell to perform the office of sexton is more than any one in the congregation can divine.

It will be naturally asked, for how long a period a mother ought to perform the office of a nurse?

Mr Banks makes the sun perform the office of Hymen, and therefore not likely to be disgusted at such a sight:

This I call a cutting roller; it maybe employed in many cases with great advantage to perform the office of a plane.

Besides the old "fugleman", there were several other patriarchs, who now advanced into the water to perform the office of fishermen.

While traversing this treacherous belt of territory I make the sowars lead the way and perform the office of pathfinder for myself and wheel.

In selecting another to perform the office of reclaiming his highly prized rifle, the scout had lost sight of none of his habitual caution.

Eustace had long thought that every man concerned in either of those proceedings deserved the gallows, and fancied he could perform the office of executioner.

There being no one else to perform the office, he congratulated himself very warmly, and Esther's frequent laughter filled in the pauses of the day.

They put the Choiseul cabal to work, who intrigued so well that not a person could be found who would perform the office of introductress.

Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves?

Thus she rested till the bishop had performed the office.