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  • He told Dad that the whole family would need to come down to the courthouse the next morning and see the magistrate.†   (source)
  • One of the magistrates' houses was burned to the ground, and a handful of Twos had their cars vandalized.†   (source)
  • It came as no surprise when Nathan told me she was a magistrate.†   (source)
  • The men placed the rug upright in the middle of the court, before the magistrate.†   (source)
  • Tata's plan was to speak to Pompeii's magistrates — the men elected to lead the city.†   (source)
  • The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.†   (source)
  • The magistrates in Coventry are losing their patience and if Malachy McCourt doesn't stop the bloody nonsense he'll be kicked out of the country entirely.†   (source)
  • That was the magistrate's decision—no damages at all!†   (source)
  • Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete.†   (source)
  • Like the sheaves of rice in Joseph's dream, like a press of eager natives petitioning an English magistrate, the old houses had been arranged around the History House in attitudes of deference.†   (source)
  • The Inquest was held in the City Hall, with a number of Magistrates present, all staring and frowning; and an immense crowd of spectators, and Press men, pushing and shoving and jostling, so as to be in a better position to see and hear; and these had to be reprimanded several times, for disruption.†   (source)
  • Papa's grandfather was a judge, at one point a magistrate for the small, lovely island of Miyajima.†   (source)
  • One did not defy magistrates in those days.†   (source)
  • His mother was a federal magistrate, his father, a law professor.†   (source)
  • "Who is this fellow?" he asked: "The magistrate," Ursula answered disconsolately.†   (source)
  • Just as had happened with the King of the Afterworld, this woman's courage and virtue moved the emperor, but he saw something more—filial piety. lie assigned her to her husband's home village as a magistrate.†   (source)
  • A U.S. magistrate presided and did so with little interest.†   (source)
  • What does the district magistrate know about Ors?†   (source)
  • At Utrecht they witnessed the swearing in of new magistrates of the city, as a result of major constitutional reforms enacted by the Patriot party.†   (source)
  • It had been with very bad grace that he had chosen to make a public apology rather than resign his magistracy.†   (source)
  • "I'd have them all before the magistrate on Bow Street," Inspector Kent mutters, mentioning London's famous court.†   (source)
  • Alessandro was influenced by his father's enthusiasm as surely as the many magistrates before whom his father appeared in earning his living.†   (source)
  • In it, laws must be enforced by the destructive coercion of the sword instead of the mild and solitary coercion of the magistracy.†   (source)
  • The preliminary hearing before the magistrate at the Royal Stoa began with the reading of the written charge by Meletus.†   (source)
  • Criminal cases are transferred to the magistrate—unless they can be dealt with privately.†   (source)
  • To bring that about will mean involving the police — a formal complaint, a hearing before a magistrate, so many legalities.†   (source)
  • In the research against ghost fear published by the Chinese Academy of Science is the story of a magistrate's servant, Kao Chung, a capable eater who in 1683 ate five cooked chickens and drank ten bottles of wine that belonged to the sea monster with branching teeth.†   (source)
  • I feel totally fit to be a magistrate all the time.†   (source)
  • He was the Game Warden, the Magistrate, the Director of Economic Opportunity, Warden of the Roads, Civil Defense Director, and held countless smaller titles.†   (source)
  • Even before the first magistrate looked down on him, Joe had developed a fine stable of hates toward the whole world he knew.†   (source)
  • A doctor, two policemen, and a magistrate with a cockade in his hat jumped out.†   (source)
  • The magistrate is the servant not …. of the people, but of his God.†   (source)
  • -so, by authority vested in me as duly elected Chief Magistrate of this sovereign community, I pronounce you man and wife!†   (source)
  • "Woman, it is thy badge of shame!" replied the stern magistrate.   (source)
  • On my life, Hester, I made my intreaty to the worshipful magistrate that it might be done forthwith.   (source)
  • "It lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off the badge," calmly replied Hester.   (source)
    magistrates = judges
  • It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows.   (source)
    magistrate = judge
  • Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.   (source)
  • "Indeed hath he," answered the magistrate; "and hath adduced such arguments, that we will even leave the matter as it now stands; so long, at least, as there shall be no further scandal in the woman."   (source)
  • The magistrate, after a wary observation of the darkness—into which, nevertheless, he could see but little further than he might into a mill-stone—retired from the window.   (source)
  • She had returned, therefore, and resumed—of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it—resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale.   (source)
  • But there was something in the latter's expression that warned back the magistrate, although a man not readily obeying the vague intimations that pass from one spirit to another.   (source)
  • No longer ago than yester-eve, a magistrate, a wise and godly man, was discoursing of your affairs, Mistress Hester, and whispered me that there had been question concerning you in the council.   (source)
  • At one of the chamber-windows of Governor Bellingham's mansion, which stood at some distance, on the line of another street, he beheld the appearance of the old magistrate himself with a lamp in his hand a white night-cap on his head, and a long white gown enveloping his figure.   (source)
  • Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.   (source)
  • Madame Hester absolutely refuseth to speak, and the magistrates have laid their heads together in vain.   (source)
    magistrates = judges
  • "The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful overmuch—that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron.   (source)
  • Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray.   (source)
  • If the hussy stood up for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarded?   (source)
  • It was the place whence proclamations were wont to be made, amidst an assemblage of the magistracy, with all the ceremonial that attended such public observances in those days.   (source)
    magistracy = judiciary
  • Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?   (source)
    magistrates = judges
  • The traits of character here indicated were well represented in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates.   (source)
  • Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to wrench the name out of thy heart, and give thee a partner on thy pedestal.   (source)
  • For the Governor and the magistrates are to go by, and the ministers, and all the great people and good people, with the music and the soldiers marching before them.   (source)
  • Next in order to the magistrates came the young and eminently distinguished divine, from whose lips the religious discourse of the anniversary was expected.   (source)
  • In this little lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that she possessed, and by the licence of the magistrates, who still kept an inquisitorial watch over her, Hester established herself, with her infant child.   (source)
  • He was lodged in the prison, not as suspected of any offence, but as the most convenient and suitable mode of disposing of him, until the magistrates should have conferred with the Indian sagamores respecting his ransom.   (source)
  • It denoted the advance of the procession of magistrates and citizens on its way towards the meeting-house: where, in compliance with a custom thus early established, and ever since observed, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale was to deliver an Election Sermon.   (source)
  • The dim reflection of a remembered splendour, a colourless and manifold diluted repetition of what they had beheld in proud old London—we will not say at a royal coronation, but at a Lord Mayor's show—might be traced in the customs which our forefathers instituted, with reference to the annual installation of magistrates.   (source)
  • Once more, therefore, the train of venerable and majestic fathers were seen moving through a broad pathway of the people, who drew back reverently, on either side, as the Governor and magistrates, the old and wise men, the holy ministers, and all that were eminent and renowned, advanced into the midst of them.   (source)
  • Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall, and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea, they have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her.   (source)
    magistracy = judiciary
  • Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.   (source)
    magistrates = judges
  • Hester Prynne went one day to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves which she had fringed and embroidered to his order, and which were to be worn on some great occasion of state; for, though the chances of a popular election had caused this former ruler to descend a step or two from the highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy.   (source)
    magistracy = judiciary
  • We weren't doing anything a magistrate wouldn't do; we just did it in pretty dresses."†   (source)
  • The magistrate would get to the bottom of the matter and decide what measures needed to be taken.†   (source)
  • "I was cleaning at one of the magistrates' houses yesterday.†   (source)
  • It seemed the magistrates had listened to Festus's visitor from Rome.†   (source)
  • You'd think a magistrate would know what was right or wrong.†   (source)
  • The magistrate peeked up over his bench to see if his life was still in danger.†   (source)
  • I had been a magistrate for almost eleven years.†   (source)
  • "Où est le prisonnier?" the magistrate asked.†   (source)
  • With a heavy sigh, the magistrate warned the gentleman not to make a mockery of the court.†   (source)
  • "Quel est ceci?" asked the magistrate, not amused.†   (source)
  • The magistrate was in a large, populous city well upriver from Ors and nearby Kould Ves.†   (source)
  • Having found merit in the accusation against Socrates, the magistrate drew up formal charges.†   (source)
  • He demanded they send their chief magistrate to France to ask his pardon and receive his terms.†   (source)
  • The magistrate asked repeatedly for some authority, from anywhere in the nation, but there was none.†   (source)
  • The magistrate pounded his gavel and cried for order.†   (source)
  • Before the war I was a magistrate, and I used to work on this kind of problem.†   (source)
  • Unarmed, without paying any attention to the guards, they went into the magistrate's office.†   (source)
  • For all I know the district magistrate doesn't exist!"†   (source)
  • A few days later Jose Arcadio Buendia found a house for the magistrate's family.†   (source)
  • A date was set for the island's disciplinary court, and a magistrate from Cape Town was assigned.†   (source)
  • Don Apolinar Moscote, the magistrate, had arrived in Macondo very quietly.†   (source)
  • The magistrate boiled overand exclaimed, "You'll pay dearly for this!" and then walked away.†   (source)
  • "I don't know the district magistrate!" she protested, indignant.†   (source)
  • The magistrate accordingly sent a message ordering my father to appear before him.†   (source)
  • I have been named magistrate of this town.†   (source)
  • The next day I appeared in court before a senior magistrate for formal remand.†   (source)
  • The magistrate raised his right hand with all the fingers extended.†   (source)
  • During the proceedings, the magistrate was diffident and uneasy, and would not look at me directly.†   (source)
  • At 8:30 I appeared before the local magistrate and was formally remanded to Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • He briefly addressed the court and asked the magistrate to find me guilty on both counts.†   (source)
  • The magistrate asked him exactly what he meant by that.†   (source)
  • My father's response bespoke his belief that the magistrate had no legitimate power over him.†   (source)
  • In administrative court, the charge would be read by the presiding magistrate.†   (source)
  • The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper.†   (source)
  • The magistrate simply deposed my father, thus ending the Mandela family chieftainship.†   (source)
  • The magistrate attempted to hand Paul some change, but Paul would not take it.†   (source)
  • We were brought before a magistrate and charged with sabotage.†   (source)
  • When I had finished, the magistrate ordered a ten-minute recess to consider the sentence.†   (source)
  • When the magistrate received my father's response, he promptly charged him with insubordination.†   (source)
  • Magistrates do that.†   (source)
  • He gives his word till a ship comes to help him escape and he goes to the office of the English magistrate and says, I'm escaping, jumps on his horse and winds up in New York.†   (source)
  • When the other shop owners brought in their damaged goods for inspection, the magistrate discovered that one had rare books that had been stolen from the Hanlin Academy thirty years before.†   (source)
  • They've sent four judges out of Boston, she says, weighty magistrates of the General Court, and at the head sits the Deputy Governor of the Province.†   (source)
  • That there were some jokers, however, is indicated by the practice of appointing a two-man patrol whose duty was to "walk forth in the time of God's worship to take notice of such as either lye about the meeting house, without attending to the word and ordinances, or that lye at home or in the fields without giving good account thereof, and to take the names of such persons, and to present them to the magistrates, whereby they may be accordingly proceeded against."†   (source)
  • "That's up to the magistrate," he said.†   (source)
  • The official said that as soon as the owners of the affected shops had tallied their losses, the figure would be given to the magistrate, and the magistrate would tell us how the debt should be settled.†   (source)
  • There will be several magistrates here, not to mention the extended members of the royal family, and enough cameras to make your heads spin," Silvia barked over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Statues of emperors and generals seemed to glare at Marcus as he followed Tata to the magistrates' building.†   (source)
  • We must warn the magistrates at once!†   (source)
  • She's a magistrate, for goodness' sake.†   (source)
  • The magistrate huffed and ordered the prosecutor to remove Hatter from the rug or he would find himself in prison for contempt of court.†   (source)
  • He grabbed a dagger from his backpack and threw it, skewering a painting on the wall next to the magistrate's head-an action that caused the wise man to hunker down beneath his bench for safety.†   (source)
  • The magistrate, however, had seen quite the parade of motley life from his perch in court and merely wondered if he might not treat himself to a little fried mutton along with his usual wedge of brie and bottle of bordeaux at his favorite cafe, Le Chien Dyspeptique.†   (source)
  • Even far from the capital, in remote counties like ours, local magistrates—all trained in an identicalmanner—helped people to understand the relationship between themselves and the emperor.†   (source)
  • He investigated, and when he had collected evidence that it had not simply lost its tail in some way, but had never possessed one, he condemned it, and, in his capacity as a magistrate, ordered the inspector to make out a warrant for its destruction as an Offence.†   (source)
  • As I think about these things they do it quick while you still weak with fever at the magistrate's, before you can ask questions.†   (source)
  • You told us that when you said you did not care to go before the magistrate, to "press charges", as you put it.†   (source)
  • Above all, the executive magistrate must have sufficient power to defend himself, and thus the people, from all the "enterprises" of the natural aristocracy.†   (source)
  • The magistrate now, he know a lot, but his wife very friendly with the Mason family and she stop him if she can.†   (source)
  • He was still the largest landowner, he still continued to preach frequently on Sundays and to explain with practical clarity the laws and views held in heaven upon a variety of matters and practices, and, upon the appointed days, he administered the laws temporal, as a magistrate.†   (source)
  • He will ask why the United States degrades themselves to the choice of a wretch whose soul came blasted from the hand of nature, of a wretch that has neither the science of a magistrate, the politeness of a courtier, nor the courage of a man?†   (source)
  • The senate had the exclusive rights to make peace and war, send and receive ambassadors, enter into treaties and alliances, and appoint a chief magistrate or praetor.†   (source)
  • The magistrate questioned both Meletus and Socrates, then gave both the accuser and defendant an opportunity to question each other.†   (source)
  • The entire legislature, again, has no executive powers, though one house acts as the supreme executive magistracy.†   (source)
  • 'Christophine,' I said, 'you lived in Jamaica for years, and you know Mr Fraser, the Spanish Town magistrate, well.†   (source)
  • It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.†   (source)
  • The summons required Socrates to appear before the legal magistrate, or King Archon, in a colonnaded building in central Athens called the Royal Stoa to answer charges of impiety and corrupting the youth.†   (source)
  • They got magistrate.†   (source)
  • "You should bring this to the district magistrate, citizen," I told the Orsian, in the local dialect.†   (source)
  • Are they less worthy than the representatives and magistrates elected in other States by very small groups of the people?†   (source)
  • …and in an article intended to prevent the formation of a hereditary monarchy, an expanded version of a similar article in the Virginia constitution, Adams wrote: No man, nor corporation or association of men have any other title to obtain advantages or particular and exclusive privileges distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public …. the idea of a man born a magistrate, lawgiver, or judge is absurd and unnatural.†   (source)
  • From his latest information, Jefferson said, it appeared Adams's election to the "first magistracy" was an established fact.†   (source)
  • The district magistrate reiterates the official policy regarding fishing reserves in the Ors Marshes….†   (source)
  • Montesquieu said, "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates," and "if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."†   (source)
  • He set up a table and a chair that he had bought from Jacob, nailed up on the wall the shield of the republic that he had brought with him, and on the door he painted the sign: Magistrate.†   (source)
  • "She should take that to the district magistrate," Lieutenant Awn said of the citizen with the fishing dispute, slightly annoyed, eyes closed, the afternoon's reports in her vision.†   (source)
  • The day after Christmas, the official day of mourning in the capital, troops of light infantry and cavalry passed through the city to the slow military beat of muffled drums, in a grand solemn procession that began at Congress Hall and included a host of federal and state leaders, city magistrates, Masons, and a riderless white horse with reversed boots in the stirrups.†   (source)
  • …the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage…†   (source)
  • When the war was over, while Colonel Aureliano, Buendia was sneaking about through the narrow trails of permanent sub. version, General Moncada was named magistrate of Macondo.†   (source)
  • She approved, with a quick twitch of her fingers, the message I had composed for the district magistrate, and then opened the most recent message from her young sister.†   (source)
  • "I wish," Lieutenant Awn continued, "the magistrate would come here herself and try living on stale bread and those disgusting pickled vegetables they send, and see how she likes being forbidden to fish where all the fish actually are."†   (source)
  • The image of Remedios, the magistrate's younger daughter, who, because of her age, could have been his daughter, kept paining him in some part of his body.†   (source)
  • The majority of Aureliano's friends were enthusiastic over the idea of liquidating the Conservative establishment, but no one had dared include him in the plans, not only because of his ties with the magistrate, but because of his solitary and elusive character.†   (source)
  • The magistrate and his wife received him, pleased and worried at the same time, for they did not know the reason for the unexpected visit, and then they thought that he was confused about the name of the intended bride.†   (source)
  • The magistrate was taken by surprise by my action and asked me with some incredulity, "Have you anything more to say?"†   (source)
  • In this instance, the authorities were willing to call in an outside magistrate because they knew they had an open-and-shut case.†   (source)
  • Within a day or two a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town and I was taken to the room at headquarters that was used as the island's court.†   (source)
  • It was low-key, and the magistrate seemed no more concerned than if he were handling a traffic summons.†   (source)
  • I had appeared before this magistrate on numerous occasions in my professional capacity and we had grown to respect one another.†   (source)
  • In the rural areas, an interpreter in the magistrate's office was considered second only in importance to the magistrate himself.†   (source)
  • I drafted a letter to the judge or magistrate in my own handwriting, and then sent it to the other side.†   (source)
  • Throughout the proceedings the prosecutor and the magistrate repeatedly inquired about the number of witnesses I intended to call.†   (source)
  • He was asserting his traditional prerogative as a chief and was challenging the authority of the magistrate.†   (source)
  • As a chief—or headman, as it was often known among the whites—my father was compelled to account for his stewardship not only to the Thembu king but to the local magistrate.†   (source)
  • Nor was it possible to receive a fair trial from a white judge: Why is it that in this courtroom I am facing a white magistrate, confronted by a white prosecutor, escorted by white orderlies?†   (source)
  • I then made application for the recusal of the magistrate on the groundsthat I did not consider myself morally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I had no representation.†   (source)
  • The court was then adjourned until the following day, when I would have a chance to address the court in what is known as the plea in mitigation before the magistrate gave his sentence.†   (source)
  • He was confirmed as chief of Mvezo by the king of the Thembu tribe, but under British rule, his selection had to be ratified by the government, which in Mvezo took the form of the local magistrate.†   (source)
  • We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps.†   (source)
  • The magistrate knew precisely who I was and I know that if he had asked me rather than Paul, I would have simply performed the errand and forgotten about it.†   (source)
  • When the crowd had quieted down and the case was called, I formally greeted the prosecutor, Mr. Bosch, whom I had known from my attorney days, and the magistrate, Mr. Van Heerden, who was also familiar to me.†   (source)
  • These were not scheduled, but were called as needed, and were held to discuss national matters such as a drought, the culling of cattle, policies ordered by the magistrate, or new laws decreed by the government.†   (source)
  • The magistrate was offended.†   (source)
  • Warders generally did not treat this lightly, for when a prisoner was charged he was allowed a judicial hearing and, depending on the seriousness of the offense, a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town.†   (source)
  • Exactly ten minutes later, in a courtroom heavy with tension, the magistrate pronounced sentence: three years for inciting people to strike and two years for leaving the country without a passport; five years in all, with no possibility of parole.†   (source)
  • While many in the ANC, including myself, were eager to bail out the women, Lilian Ngoyi, the national president of the Women's League, and Helen Joseph, secretary of the South African Women's Federation, believed that for theprotest to be genuine and effective, the women should serve whatever time the magistrate ordered.†   (source)
  • Sita, the distinguished Indian campaigner who had led our defiance at Boksburg in 1952, had just been convicted by a Pretoria magistrate for refusing to vacate his house—the house he had lived in for more than forty years—which was in a precinct that had been proclaimed "white" in terms of the Group Areas Act.†   (source)
  • Unlike judges and magistrates, who were automatically permitted access to prisons, members of Parliament had to request permission to visit a prison.†   (source)
  • At Mqhekezweni I had met many white traders and government officials, including magistrates and police officers.†   (source)
  • For the previous two years, her visits had been stymied by local magistrates and by the repeated bannings that prevented her from traveling.†   (source)
  • His guiding star was the principle of Puritan statesmanship his father had laid down many years before: "The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God."†   (source)
  • Courts and magistrates may be set up but they cannot function without sheriffs and constables.†   (source)
  • The call was for Wilson Redmond, the police court magistrate.†   (source)
  • Courts and magistrates may be set up but they cannot function without sheriffs and constables.†   (source)
  • He must have known I was an ex-Lord Mayor and a magistrate and so forth.†   (source)
  • The magistrate slapped his hand down en seguida on this irresponsible rumor of dysentery.†   (source)
  • You may be a magistrate and a colonel into the bargain, but it won't cut any ice with me.†   (source)
  • The money they entrusted, then, to the magistrate in the district, a man new and just come.†   (source)
  • In the morning the magistrate and his party arrived from Taos.†   (source)
  • The chief saluted the magistrate, and the magistrate the chief, and there were other salutes also.†   (source)
  • "These rats, now-" the magistrate began.†   (source)
  • Then we--I and the magistrate--settled back in our chairs and the examination began.†   (source)
  • "That fellow," said Tarrou when the magistrate was out of hearing, "is Enemy Number One."†   (source)
  • To indicate, presumably, that the interview was over, the magistrate stood up.†   (source)
  • They brought him back to Mora, but St. Vrain rode on to Taos to fetch a magistrate.†   (source)
  • The magistrate shrugged his shoulders, saying, That's the way these things are done.†   (source)
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