Lawyers

Examples

• I can telegraph my lawyers. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• How do your lawyers live, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There are several grades of lawyers' clerks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Those men in Washington, most of them lawyers, are so educated that they are practically incapable of meeting a new condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Us London lawyers don't often get an out, and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The lawyers told me that there were no relatives alive, and that I was justly entitled to spend the money, so that is how I became rich. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He had sent for his lawyers, and probably changed something in his will. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So now I am ready even for the lawyers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You have to go among lawyers to see this idolatrous process in its most perfect form. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The vestry-clerk is a sort of an appointment that the lawyers get, and if there's any business to be done for the vestry, why there they are to do it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The fees annually paid to lawyers and attorneys, amount, in every court, to a much greater sum than the salaries of the judges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The matter was so simple, to have or to leave, as she justly observed, that she made the lawyers of the creditors themselves do the business. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rick mistrusts and suspects me--goes to lawyers, and is taught to mistrust and suspect me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We have handed over the government of a nation of people to a set of lawyers, to a class of men who deal in the most verbal and unreal of all human attainments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Was he prejudiced against the race of lawyers? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It claimed that Gray was the original inventor, and instructed its lawyers to bring suits against the Bell Company for infringing on Gray’s patents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They are lawyers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Shrewd creatures, those lawyers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Where the dexterity of the lawyers, eager to discover a flaw? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The respectable lawyers who scribble-scrabble your deeds and your wills look the deaths of living people in the face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When you succeed me here, Maurice, you will find everything drawn out, fair and square, with my lawyers in London. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But I had my own object in view, and I declined (as we lawyers say) to pursue the question into its side issues. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I can say in all truth and justice that their testimony was utterly false, and that the lawyers who took it must have known it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Matt