" The young doctor sat down suddenly, and smiled wanly: "There need be no difficulty, Dr. Brander", he said, "I am ready to hear ..." he left the sentence unfinished.

Every one is under the death sentence; the day is set for each man.

But the next week his wife, spending the afternoon at Mrs. Cowan's, "heard something," and the next Sunday, although he shook hands with her and began to say he was glad to see her, catching Mrs. Cowan's eye on him, he changed his sentence and said he was glad to see so many out.

And she began another sentence: "What a pity!

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They punished severely even trivial offences, and this case would have been considered a very serious one; while a sentence of seven years' transportation was almost as good as an acquittal.

The reverend gentleman alluded to of course attended the court in robes, and his only, but solemn, function was to say "Amen" when the sentence of death was pronounced by the Judge.

But they can arrest any one they've a mind to, and their officers can try and sentence folks.

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And on the morning of the 20th of January, 1793, Louis was roused from his bed to hear his sentence, and to learn that it was to be carried out the next day.

Though greatly exhausted by the length of the proceedings, she had heard the sentence without betraying the slightest emotion by any change of countenance or gesture.

The innocence, purity, and benevolence of her soul shine through every sentence.

He would be caught in flagrante delicto, and, with a heavy sentence hovering over him, he would probably be induced to name his accomplice.

Gregory dared to fulminate the sentence of excommunication against Henry and his adherents, to pronounce him rightfully deposed, to free his subjects from their oaths of allegiance; and instead of shocking mankind by this gross encroachment on the civil authority, he found the stupid people ready to second his most exorbitant pretensions.

He pronounced the sentence of excommunication against Nicephorus, Emperor of the East: Robert Guiscard, the adventurous Norman, who had acquired the dominion of Naples, was attacked by the same dangerous weapon: he degraded Boleslas, King of Poland, from the rank of king; and even deprived Poland of the title of a kingdom: he attempted to treat Philip, King of France, with the same rigour which he had employed against the emperor

"I don't know (says she) whether a woman may be acquitted for endeavouring to sum up a character so various and important as his lordship's; but if the attempt can be excused, I don't desire to have it pass for a decisive sentence.

Tump marked a sentence in the guaranty of the deed with a rusty forefinger and looked up at Peter in mixed triumph and accusation.

" Peter never knew exactly how this extraordinary sentence had come about, but in a kind of breath he realized that he and this almost white girl were not of Niggertown.

His treatise the "-Tripartita-" as it was calledwas a work on the Twelve Tables, which appended to each sentence of the text an explanationchiefly, doubtless, of the antiquated and unintelligible expressionsand the corresponding formula of action.

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A physician is notat least, ought not to bean executioner; and a sentence of death on his face is as bad as a warrant for execution signed by the Governor.

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" He spoke with a stifled voice, wrenching forth each sentence; and now with a stiff forefinger flipped a paper across the table.