25 Metaphors for magistrates

This magistrate was then printer of the Gazette, and was so cruel as to oblige the Dr. to sit up till three or four o'clock in the morning, upon those days the Gazette was published, to correct the errors of the press; which was not the business of the author, but a corrector, who is kept for that purpose in every printing-office of any consequence.

A governor may be addressed as "Your Excellency," a judge as "Your Honor," but the chief magistrate of the nation is simply "Mr. President."

The Deputy Magistrate In the Dacca district, a few years ago, there was a big dacoity.

Thus these worthy magistrates, instead of lessening enormities, are the occasion of just twice as much debauchery as there would be without them.

The only magistrates administering the civil law were the praetors, and though since the reforms of Sulla there were usually eight of these in the city, we can well imagine how hard it would be for the poor debtor in a huge city to get his affairs attended to.

Perhaps the magistrate most regular in his attendance at a certain country Petty Sessional Court is young Squire Marthorne.

The latter approached the window, and impatiently waited till, according to his calculation, the magistrate should be some distance from the house.

The magistrate should be no respecter of persons.

The chief magistrate was already a familiar figure, standing on his dump at Little Minóok, speculatively chewing and discussing "glayshal action," but most of the time at the Gold Nugget, chewing still, and discussing more guardedly the action some Minóok man was threatening to bring against another.

Then, no American is entitled to be called an 'esquire,' which is the correlative of "knight," and is a title properly prohibited by the constitution, though most people imagine that a magistrate is an "esquire" ex officio.

The Rev. John Hamilton Davies, B.A., F.R.H.S., Rector of St. Nicholas's, Worcester, and author of The Life of Richard Baxter of Kidderminster, Preacher and Prisoner (London, Kent & Co., 1887), kindly informs me, in answer to my inquiries, that he believes that Johnson may allude to the following passage in the fourth chapter of Baxter's Reformed Pastor: 'I think the Magistrate should be the hedge of the Church.

In Pennsylvania the chief Magistrate was the organ of a common welcome of the Legislature and Citizens.

Dublin, too, showed a similar spirit, and fitted out some small vessels which it sent on a marauding expedition to Scotland, in reward for which its chief magistrate, who had up to that time been a Provost, was invested with the title of Mayor.

We think the Magistrate was rather pernickety.

The sitting magistrate was Alderman Figgins, a nice, kindly old gentleman, robed in marvellous, but not uncomely, garments of black velvet, purple, and dark fur.

To the party politician it of course makes a great difference whether a city magistrate is a Republican or a Democrat.

If they gain a favorable hearing he triumphs over himif they are disregarded, he concludes that the magistrate also is his enemy, and he goes away with a rankling grudge against his master.

The county magistrates who act for this town, some of whom attend at the public office, in Moor-street, every Monday and Thursday, are the Rev. Dr. Spencer, of Aston; William Villers, Esq. of Moseley; George Simcox and Theodore Price, Esqrs. of Harborne; Wm.

"I wish," cried impetuous Sally, "that magistrate were my husband.

The principal executive magistrates of the town are the selectmen.

The chief magistrate was not the ealdorman of early English history, but the rex or basileus who combined in himself the functions of king, general, and priest.

Our chief magistrate becomes otherwise a mere puppet, and our Congress a shallow mockery, and the shadow only of a legislative body.

An examining magistrate, after all, is only a manhence given to prejudice.

The magistracy does not form a body or order separate from the three orders of the kingdom; the magistrates are my officers.

Our talented Chief Magistrate is a man of few words, but what he does say is spicy, and to the point.

25 Metaphors for  magistrates