96 Metaphors for court

This court had been the more magnificent of the two until the Protector's cannon tore down one side of it before the place was taken and stormed.

You see, we have done with wiggery of all kinds; and if one of our judges were to wear such an appendage, he'd be taken for a merry-andrew, and the court would become a kind of show-boxinstead of such arrangements producing with us solemnity, they would produce nothing but laughter, and the greatest possible irregularity.

"The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put.

And now in sight of you and heaven I sweare By those new sacred fires kindled within me, 'Tis not your ho[o]pe of Gold my brow desires; A thronging Court to me is but a Cell; These popular acclamations, which thus dance I'th Aire, should passe by me as whistling windes Playing with leaves of trees.

There was fine poetry written by Marlowe and Chapman as well as by Sidney and Spenser, but the court was still the main centre of literary endeavour, and the main incitement to literary fame and success.

Do you think Brinkley Court is a leper colony or what is it?

To them the Court was the universe, the aristocracy the nation, and the Church the corner-stone of the proud altar upon which they had enthroned themselves, and beyond which they cared not either to look or listen.

A few days before his departure he had written to one of his Bearnese friends, "The court is the strangest you ever saw.

Pain Court was seven miles in a straight line from the spot where they stood; while Cahokia was ten miles to the southwest.

The fore-court of the mosque was a short time since cleared with great labour of the rubbish and masses of stone which covered it, by the untiring zeal of Mr. Cobb, the esteemed editor of the English Delhi News.

There were usually in each county eight justices of the peace, and their court was the counterpart of the Quarter Sessions in England.

The speech which he made before the Supreme Court of the United States was a masterly effort.

The court of Charles II. was the most corrupt ever known in England.

Every court is a potential conspiracy against freedom, and the League cannot tolerate merely court appointments.

The Criminal Court was the best school in which to learn your work of cross-examination and examination-in-chief, while the Courts of Equity were probably the worst.

The nearest court was St. Anthony.

A court at most periods is, as the poet says, "A golden but a fatal circle, Upon whose magic skirts a thousand devils In crystal forms sit tempting Innocence, And beckon early Virtue from its centre;" but the court of a Caius, of a Claudius, or of a Nero, was indeed a place wherein few of the wise could find a footing, and still fewer of the good.

137, 165, 274, 303, n. 2; questioned about, iii. 57; his recommendation to, i. 417; writings, makes out a list of, iii. 321; Johnson's Court, garret in, ii. 5; marriage, i. 370, 382; mentioned, i. 81, n. 1, 435; iii. 26, 93, 363, 373; iv.

To them the Court was the universe, the aristocracy the nation, and the Church the corner-stone of the proud altar upon which they had enthroned themselves, and beyond which they cared not either to look or listen.

Wilkie's Court is a little cul de sac, with about half-a-dozen wretched cottages in it, fronted by a dead wall.

The court was a better judge of Christian principles, and Protestants were permitted to be born, to marry, and to die on French territory.

Florence also and the Florentines were distasteful in their excesses of ill-living, cruelty, and chicanerynot that the Court of Rome was a Paradise, or the young man a St Anthony!

In criminal cases, the Court and Jury are the proper tribunals to decide upon the reality of the crime, and the palliating circumstances; yet it is not unfrequent for the public voice to condemn as an odious assassin, the very individual who by the acquittal of the judge, walks at large and scoffs at justice.

She had never for a moment ceased to remember that the Dakota divorce-court was the objective point of this later honeymoon, and her allusions to the fact were as frequent as prudence permitted.

Several handsome modern buildings are occupied by the government, the courts and the municipal officials, and the university is the chief educational institution of northern India.

96 Metaphors for  court