But it was the duty of the jury to come to an unanimous verdict.

The Sealed verdict.

He is uneasy under the adverse verdict of a large company, but the condemnation of one person did not weigh with him.

You well know that she does not suspect her husband, that she fears nothing but a mistaken verdict from you,that she will be satisfied, much more than satisfied, if you will leave her in possession of her home, her husband, and the unalloyed domestic happiness she has enjoyed since she joined her lot with his.

Excused to-day from attendance at court, he was in constant telephonic communication with some friend of his, who kept him posted as to the conduct of the trial and the probabilities of a favourable verdict.

I myself, indeed, am a man who have at all times despised that applause which is bestowed by the vulgar crowd, but at the same time, when it is bestowed by those of the highest, and of the middle, and of the lowest rank, and, in short, by all ranks together, and when those men who were previously accustomed to aim at nothing but the favour of the people keep aloof, I then think that, not mere applause, but a deliberate verdict.

I have some respect for the critical verdict of Francis Bacon, the greatest man of his age,if we except Shakspeare,and one of the greatest men in the history of all nations.

Even bad menlike Caesar, Richelieu, and Napoleonhave obtained favorable verdicts in view of their services.

It would, however, be a million times worse if juries cannot be found here cool and dispassionate enough to render impartial verdicts.

Although I have been thus thwarted at every turn in my investigations of Spiritualism, and found fraud where I had looked for honesty, and emptiness where I had hoped for fulness, I cannot think it right to pass a verdict, universal in its application, where far less than the universe of Spiritualism has been observed.

Is it not possible for us now to make a truce with time, by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdicts?

But I could not have confronted them with the decisive verdict of time.

But suppose the Day of Judgment which Fate reserves for us were fundamentally this: the appraisement of one's life and characternot by the all-seeing Eye of Heaven (before which I would bow), but by the vindictively unjust verdict of the people one has tried to servethe judgment not of God, but of public opinion.

Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict.

And, I fear, many righteous verdicts would be upset if the testimony of one man could do it.

In consideration of his long-enduring kindness to the twelve brethren, I cannot consent to believe him as wicked as he is usually depicted; and it seems a marvel, now that so many well-established historical verdicts have been reversed, why some enterprising writer does not make out Leicester to have been the pattern nobleman of his age.

But notwithstanding his defence, the jury, who were composed of creatures of the court, brought in their verdict, guilty; and he had sentence of death pronounced against him, which he heard without emotion.

The ultimate verdict can only be obtained by the survey of long epochs.[M]

It was a labored, and in part eloquent, exposition of the necessary fallibility of human judgment, illustrated by numerous examples of erroneous verdicts.

of the damages actually recovered of the employer reaches the party injured); while on the other hand the master can never know for how much he is going to be liable, and in the rare cases which get to a jury they are apt to find an excessive verdict.

He sat down by her side, and heard the fearful verdict of "guilty" pronounced against her husband and Ralph Somers; and then the dreaded doom of transportation for life awarded to them.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.

From Connaught, where distress was greatest, came batches of inquests with the horrible verdict "died of starvation."

I don't ask you to give an illegal or perjured verdict.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.