Under a merely nominal recognizance, he sailed away with flying colors, and amid the plaudits of an admiring crowd, among whom, it is to be presumed, the authorities took care to be only not too conspicuous.

During the walk she had taken rapid recognizance of everything in her path.

As a married woman, I was unable to give recognizances, being only a chattel, not a person cognisable by law; the Court mercifully ignored thisor I should have had to go to prisonand accepted Mr. Bradlaugh's sole recognizance as covering us both.