23 Verbs to Use for the Word presentments

Sauvallier could not go out of doors without seeing his son's presentment.

If the evidence against the accused is insufficient to warrant indictment, but yet his innocence is questionable, the grand jury may bring a presentment against him.

" In the Milledgeville Federal Union of May 2, 1837, we find the following presentment of the Grand Jury of Union County, Georgia, which as it shows some relics of a moral sense, still lingering in the state we insert.

Large, protruding eyes and an opulent bust complete a presentment of the typical household drudge"a servant-girl in a German inn."

Moreover, in the electrotype block, the solid of which the printed page constitutes a plane presentment, all the letters are actually "united in such a manner that the whole is one."

"You're quite wrong," I exclaimed indignantly, contrasting Jervis's hideous presentment with the comely original.

See also Warrington Deanery Visit., 188 ("Departing and not exhibitinge there presentments").

Soc., i, s.a. 1586-7, where is recorded an expense item for a payment to "Mr. Chauncelor" for entering a presentment for collections for the poor. See act-books above cited.

Arabia does not flash forth a new presentment of beauty, following the vivid apprehension of some lovely form, but broods over it in a kind of slumbering enthusiasm that mounts at last into a glory of metaphor, drowning the subject in intensest light.

My young soul now got its first presentment of the world and its events.

Unlike an ordinary photograph, which yields a picture of things already seen, it gives a presentment of objects hitherto invisible; and hence, when Polton poured the developer on the already wet paper, we all craned over the tray with the keenest curiosity.

It required minutes to harmonize these presentments in the mind of Captain Horn.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: I received yesterday from the judge of the district of South Carolina a letter, inclosing the presentments of the grand jury to him, and stating the causes which have prevented the return of the census from that district, copies of which are now laid before you.

Mr. Spectator, 'I am entirely of your Opinion with Relation to the Equestrian Females, who affect both the Masculine and Feminine Air at the same time; and cannot forbear making a Presentment against another Order of them who grow very numerous and powerful; and since our Language is not very capable of good compound Words, I must be contented to call them only the Naked Shouldered.

To fellow countrymen in London, Charles Jervas (1675?-1739), Thomas Hickey (d. 1816?), and Francis Cotes, R.A. (1725-1770), we owe presentments of other famous people.

The father in question very shortly made his appearance, a magnificent figure, whose long black beard flowing over his perfectly clean white robe made as picturesque a presentment of a friar as could be desired.

as all earthly things do fail to poor mortals in enjoyment, so did prove our presentment thereof.

Denunciation "in many poyntes resembleth a Presentment," Cosen, An Apologie (etc.), 70.

His limbs were arranged like those of dead persons, and when his eyes had been closed, a painter was introduced into the room and desired to make a full-length and full-size picture of this terrific object, this solemn theatrical presentment of life in death.

How perfect the preservation, and artful the presentment, of the various characters!

et Le Noir, when he shows us the soul of the young peasant with its ignorance, its ambition, its pride, going step by step into the whirling vortex of lifethen we seem to be witnessing not so much the presentment of a fiction as the unfolding of some scientific fact.

It bears a presentment of our Lord's head with the following inscription: HIC CORPUS FRIDBURGAE REQUIESCAT IN PACE SEPULTUM [Illustration: WHITCHURCH.]

Over the march of two worlds, that of her imagination, and that of fact, her soul hovered fluttering, and blended the presentment of the two in the power of its unity.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  presentments