Magistrate

Examples

• It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Must go before the magistrate now, sir,' replied the man. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• You know he did; and as for the women, why, you heard that before me, in my own magistrate's room. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To obey the civil magistrate is requisite to preserve order and concord in society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When all this was done to the magistrate's satisfaction, the magistrate and Mr. Jinks consulted in whispers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Put down that, Mr. Jinks,' said the magistrate, who was fast rising into a rage. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• You did quite right,' replied the magistrate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Tell her she shall be put in the stocks if she does not take herself off, replied the magistrate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The magistrate observed me with a keen eye, and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Bow to the magistrate, my dear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• What feeling he, as a magistrate who had taken in so many ideas, could make room for, was unmixedly kind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I shall require good bail,' said the magistrate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One was to erect a new order of jurisdiction, by establishing magistrates and a town-council in every considerable town of his demesnes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The magistrates of the town, hearing of my letter, received me as a public minister. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• What do you say to coming along with me, upon this warrant, and having a good angry argument before the magistrates? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The magistrates shivered under a single bite of his finger. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The magistrates of the district must have dreaded him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In cases of national extremity it was the custom to set all other magistrates aside and appoint one leader, the Dictator. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Neither magistrates nor subjects have formed this idea of our civil duties. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Magistrates find an immediate interest in the interest of any considerable part of their subjects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The magistrates, and overseers, and churchwardens, are always wanting his opinion. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The magistrates are not called upon to pronounce any opinion on the matter,' said the second old gentleman sharply. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The citizens have wives and children in common; their marriages are of the same temporary sort, and are arranged by the magistrates from time to time. Plato. The Republic.
• Some of the magistrates are now well frightened, and, like all cowards, show a tendency to be cruel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is from this period, according to the French antiquarians, that we are to date the institution of the magistrates and councils of cities in France. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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