Defendants
[dɪ'fɛndənt]
Examples
- Horace Mann, one of the legal counsel for the defendants in that case. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Seventeen people were made defendants to that simple suit! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He then found out that there were not defendants enough--remember, there were only seventeen as yet! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why was it not shown to Mr. Curtis, the leading counsel for the defendants in the New York cases, when he was asked to produce a lamp and promised to do so? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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