As she lifted her head with an air of sudden protest he quashed her.

But if the result was unfavourableand knowing what eccentric things juries do, we must recognise the possibility of an unfavourable verdictyou might consider it advisable to disclose everything in the hope of having the conviction quashed by an appeal.

To doubts so put, and so quashed, there seemed to be an end for ever.

Sam Arkwright's parents had not known of their son's legal proceedings, and Mr. Arkwright immediately quashed the warrant, and hushed up the unfortunate matter as best he could.

And if Jehovah should be as courteous as the House of Commons, and acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Courts at Westminster, the pleading might hold perhaps, and the Pentateuch be quashed after an argument before the judges.

The sentence of the Otto was quashed by the payment by the Duke of the heavy fine imposed in the first case; and in response to Duke Francesco's request, the charge of contempt was withdrawn.

A design projected by some noble youths of quitting Italy in despair after this calamity, is intrepidly quashed by Publius Cornelius Scipio, a military tribune, afterwards surnamed Africanus.

I swear by Mother Káli, not only to pay the arrears of revenue but to get the sale quashed."

Finding that there were defects in the information prepared by the attorney for the State, the indictment was quashed.

When in this manner curiosity had been roused to something like expectation, the boy suddenly exclaimed, "I see something!"Tremor occupat artis;when he quashed it all by adding, "I see my nose."

These motions were taken in hand betimes by Cicero and those who were of the same mind as he, and were quashed before any action resulted from them.

Regular proceedings were commenced and followed up for the rehabilitation of the martyr; and, on the 7th of July, 1456, a decree of the court assembled at Rouen quashed the sentence of 1431, together with all its consequences, and ordered "a general procession and solemn sermon at St. Ouen Place and the Vieux- Marche," where the said maid had been cruelly and horribly burned;

" There was nothing further for it but to enregister the edict; all the decrees of the Parliament were quashed.

Calas was dead, but the decree of the Parliament of Toulouse which had sentenced him, was quashed by act of the council: his memory was cleared, and the day of toleration for French Protestants began to glimmer, pending the full dawn of justice and liberty.

The decision of the Parliament was quashed by the council.

A jealous love of power and absorption in political schemes had induced Dupleix to violate a promise lightly given by La Bourdonnais in the name of France; he had arbitrarily quashed a capitulation of which he had not discussed the conditions.

Bold and defiant in its grotesque mixture of the ancient principles of the magistracy with the novel theories of philosophy, the resolution of the Parliament was quashed by the king.

By this Means I have so effectually quashed those Irregularities which gave Occasion to 'em, that I am afraid Posterity will scarce have a sufficient Idea of them, to relish those Discourses which were in no little Vogue at the time when they were written.

Kohlhaas, without further delay, betook himself to the lawyer's house and had the suit drawn up exactly like the original one which had been quashed.

Her Opera is quashed, and Guadagni, who governed so haughtily at Vienna, that, to pique some man of quality there, he named a minister to Venice, is not only fined, but was threatened to be sent to Bridewell, which chilled the blood of all the Caesars and Alexanders he had ever represented; nor could any promises of his lady-patronesses rehabilitate his courageso for once an Act of Parliament goes for something.

But prison and money penalties vanished into thin air, for the writ of error was granted, proved successful, and the verdict was quashed.

I carried Lyons off in triumph, and the Middlesex magistrates quashed the conviction, the evidence being pronounced by them to be "confusing, contradictory, and worthless."

And, should my plea for reasonable perks (Barely four thousand pounds) be flatly quashed; Should kind Sir ALF, Commissioner of Works, Be forced to leave me liftless and half-washed; Then for these homely needs of which I speak, Content with my old pittance from the nation, In Grosvenor Square (or Berkeley) I will seek Private accommodation.

But his cruel insults now quashed despair and roused dormant indignation to fever pitch.

I did not perceive the game at the time, but I see now how all the proposals for situations within reach of me were quashed.