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He had been a great deal at the court of Napoleon III, had seen many interesting people of all kinds, and had a wonderful memory.
It was then, and I fancy is still, one of the stiffest courts in Europe.
Vienna, stiffness of court at.
These gentlemen had sat in court for three days listening intently to proceedings concerning a matter in which their degree of personal interest was only a form of curiosity.
To court with you!
Prisoners are handcuffed only on being brought before the Juge d'Instruction or Procureur du Roi, and when crossing from court to court.
The name of Daniel Kemp was loudly called by the ushers, and when Kemp crossed the court on the way to the witness-box, Chippenfield and Crewe, who had returned to the court after giving their evidence, looked at one another.
" The Prince Imperial, prior to his departure for the wars, was presented at Court as the "first gentleman" of France.
I came into the court by the merest chance.
Call, assemble the nymphshamadryad and dryad the echoes who court From the rock, who the rushes inhabit, in ripples who swim and disport.
It would have been a great relief to him if he had known that Crewe's object in going to the gallery was not to mix with the criminal classes, but in order to keep a careful survey of what took place in the body of the court without making himself too prominent.
He was at the fight at Edgehill, and thence went to Oxford, where he remained with the Court during the rest of the war.
The butler understood that in police slang "putting a man through" meant arresting him and putting him through the Criminal Court into gaol.
One day, when Celia was talking in her usual kind manner to Rosalind, saying, "I pray you, Rosalind, my sweet cousin, be merry," a messenger entered from the duke, to tell them that if they wished to see a wrestling match, which was just going to begin, they must come instantly to the court before the palace; and Celia, thinking it would amuse Rosalind, agreed to go and see it.
He dies less lamented by the Court than the Kingdom.
" Pedo brings him before the judgement seat of 14 Aeacus, who was holding court under the Lex Cornelia to try cases of murder and assassination.
They still hoped for commissions as regulars, which too few of them ever received; and they were charmed with the little viceregal court over which Lady Maria Carleton, despite her youthful two-and-twenty summers, presided with a dignity inherited from the premier ducal family of England and brought to the acme of conventional perfection by her intimate experience of Versailles.
But I do urge you to ask yourselves whether, as between Hill and the prisoner, the probability of guilt is not on the side of this witness who lied to the coroner's court about his movements on the night of the murder, and who lied to this court about the plan for the robbery of Riversbrook.
" They followed him down to the Court through a fine rain.
"One would have thought he'd have kept away from court after his wild-goose chase to Scotland and piling up expenses, but not him!
That same afternoon, we three prisoners had been taken before three justices, who held a court within the jail for our examination.
This is one way of mitigating the prejudices of the Shereefian Court against the French occupation of Algeria.
" "Then, crier, you may adjourn the court until to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.
Naturally a courtier, taking to the intrigues of the royal court like a duck to water, making enemies on every hand as well as friends, and with a fastidious and impatient clientele, he yet found time to dabble in the wonders of the newly perfected microscope and to speculate upon the meaning of the novelties revealed by it in the tissues.
When the court was opened Inspector Chippenfield took a seat in the body of the court behind the barrister's bench.