Which preposition to use with pleas

of Occurrences 305%

The exception in the indictment, enables me to avoid the plea of necessity, which I should have interposed, founded upon a huge forest meal, and the abundance as well as impertinence of the musquitoes of these woods.

for Occurrences 239%

But the next moment their hearts rebelled, and one and another would have spoken, and the little Pilgrim herself had almost cried out and made her plea for the dear earth which she loved; when he suddenly threw forth his voice again like a great song.

in Occurrences 37%

The danger, therefore, of disgusting the commons, at this or any other juncture, shall never influence me to a tame resignation of the privileges of our own house; nor shall I willingly allow any force to arguments which are intended only to operate upon our fear; and, therefore, unless there shall appear some better plea in favour of this bill, I shall think it my duty to oppose it.

to Occurrences 15%

The law does not permit me to accept a plea to murder in the first degree, and my conscience and my sense of duty to the public will permit me to accept no other.

at Occurrences 7%

His influence is great With Henry, our good King;the Baron might Have heard my suit, and urged my plea at Court.

against Occurrences 6%

To yield to a slanderous reviler a serious reply, or to make a formal plea against his charge, doth seem to imply that we much consider or deeply resent it; whereas by pleasant reflection on it we signify the matter only deserves contempt, and that we take ourselves unconcerned therein.

in Occurrences 6%

"Pleas in bar, except the general issue, may give rise to counter pleas" introduced by the parties alternately.

for Occurrences 5%

The issue had been awarded, and the case certified to the Common Pleas for trial, and placed on the trial list for the May term of court.

as Occurrences 5%

Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,that their property belonged to the nation.

before Occurrences 5%

She would like to put in a plea before the eloquence of which Cicero and Demosthenes, Beecher and Sumner, should pale like wax-lights before the sun, for the new fashion said to be obtaining in New York, that the soirée shall give place to the matinée, at which the guests shall assemble at four o'clock in the afternoon, and are expected to go home at seven or eight.

by Occurrences 4%

The consul may have been base or the Senate mean, or, what is more probable, the baseness of the one was used as a welcome plea by the other's meanness.

with Occurrences 4%

MacManus responded to this plea with a spurt, and suddenly broke away from the four and ran wildly ahead with the speed of desperation.

of Occurrences 4%

No sheriff, constable, coroner, or other our bailiffs, shall hold "Pleas of the Crown."

on Occurrences 4%

I will not offer any plea on his behalf to so powerful and genteel a body."

than Occurrences 3%

I am far, my lords, from thinking this method of raising money eligible for its own sake, or justifiable by any other plea than that of necessity.

under Occurrences 2%

The family traces up to Sir William Shelley, Judge of the Common Pleas under Henry VII, thence to a Member of Parliament in 1415, and to the reign of Edward I, or even to the Norman Conquest.

into Occurrences 2%

" "As a friend, Joe?" She managed to throw a plea into her voice that made Joe sigh.

about Occurrences 2%

" When we had seated ourselves and the waiter had retired for the second time she began: "You have been hearing me put up a plaintive plea about being on the rocks.

from Occurrences 1%

They are men not easily reformed, because they are so little ill-persuaded of their illness, and have such pleas from man and nature.

between Occurrences 1%

It seems that in 1181 the practice was for the first time adopted of entering on rolls all the business which came to the King's Court, the pleas of the Crown and common pleas between subjects.

along Occurrences 1%

A plea along the same lines is being worked by the Count de Castellane now.

at Occurrences 1%

" In his life of Lord Camden, who was Chief-justice of the Common Pleas at the time, Lord Campbell expresses a warm approval of this resolution, as one "which would now be considered conclusive evidence of the law.

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