This verdict is already more than half pronounced by the most enlightened and scrutinizing portions of mankind, and time is silently extending its domain as he is longer tried by the parallels of history, and by the philosophy of greatness itself.

When some young girl incurs spinal disease from some slight fall, which she ought not to have felt for an hour, or some business man breaks down in the prime of his years from some trifling over-anxiety, which should have left no trace behind, the popular verdict may be 'Mysterious Providence;' but the wiser observer sees the retribution for the folly of those misspent days which enfeebled the childish constitution instead of ripening it.

I don't know what the verdict will be today, but the verdict ten years hence will be the verdict in the Lovejoy case; that these men were within their rights and that they fought for a cause, that these men fought for liberty.

The police would see the top seats of the 'bus sticking out at low tide, and the verdict would be, 'Suicide while of even more than usually unsound mind.'

My own verdict is an unhesitating stet.

| Then let 'em rail and hiss, and damn their fill, Your Verdict will be Ignoramus still.

But a better astronomy recognized him as a fixed star, for he was unmistakable by that fitting Few whose verdict is both history and immortality.

If money were coming to her he could claim it, and the verdict against him would only be evidence, to be taken for what it was worth.

What the enlightened verdict of mankind may be two generations hence, no living mortal can tell.

If you linger here much longer the verdict will undoubtedly be: Violent death at the hands of some person or persons unknown.

In our country a wrong verdict is an uncommon occurrence.

After an hour and thirty-five minutes of delay the verdict was a compromise: "We are unanimously of opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motive in publishing it."

The verdict was a foregone conclusion: death for all but Oscar Neebe and for him 15 years in the penitentiary.

A verdict was a thing that had to be nicely balanced in relation to the evidence.

Perhaps under what might have been practically a direction of the court a verdict of conviction might have been returnedbut it is doubtful.

The verdict on Bohannan was madness, mirage, desertion.

The common verdict of a coroner's jury upon some emaciated wretch was "Wilful murder by Lord John Russell": and that verdict was not only the verdict of Irish public opinion, but is the verdict of history.

The decision of the cause whether or not I am a poet is removed from the present time to the hour when our posterity shall assemble: but the court is a very severe one, and I fear that the verdict will be "Guiltydeath.

VERDICT, TESTIMONY.A verdict is a decision made by a number of men acting as a single body.

" "Well, sir, I suppose a jury must determine the point, as you seem firm; though I warn you, Mr. Effingham, as one who knows his country, that a verdict, in the face of a popular feeling, is rather a hopeless matter.

The verdict was: "Insane.