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  • It's called statutory rape, and he has to be punished for it… .†   (source)
  • His self-absorption and obsession lead him to cruelty, statutory rape, murder, and the destruction of several lives.†   (source)
  • And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.†   (source)
  • …a copy of this law, from that which is in charge of the Levitical priests; and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LoRD his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them; that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in…†   (source)
  • This same statute furthermore stipulated that no person shall hold title for an alien—a noncitizen—in any way, shape, or form.†   (source)
  • The Stoics considered the legal statutes of the various states merely as incomplete imitations of the "law" embedded in nature itself.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, said, Green, there was nothing in the Kansas statutes indicating that the physicians chosen to determine a defendant's mental condition must be of any particular qualification: "Just plain doctors.†   (source)
  • Leven, the statute requires that a defendant charged with first-degree murder-multiple counts, at that-be held without bail.†   (source)
  • Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government's stated intention of repealing the mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.†   (source)
  • Statutory, with a girl of-†   (source)
  • "The Army doesn't have the statutory responsibility to take care of this situation," General Russell pointed out, "but the Army has the capability.†   (source)
  • But these doctrines existed more on paper than on plantations, just as Pakistani laws exist in the statute books but don't impede brothel owners who choose to eliminate troublesome girls.†   (source)
  • The meeting hadn't lasted long; the lawyer explained the relevant statutes and offered a few anecdotal experiences; later Travis could remember only the loose, almost weak way he had grasped Travis's hand on his way out the door.†   (source)
  • Getting comfortable in Tom's office, Franklin floats an idea for an independent study project for next semester-the classifying of urban minority students as "special needs," a technique that allows educators to steer toward them funds that are guaranteed by federal statute for handicapped children.†   (source)
  • "If there were any such statute," the clerk replied, his nose rising disdainfully, "it would certainly not apply to you.†   (source)
  • But on paper, by the statutes of New York, he was a doctor when we played, Lou.†   (source)
  • There is no statutory deadline.†   (source)
  • You could have pulled him in for fixing the army courts in a couple of killings-there are no statutes, civilian or military, on those crimes.†   (source)
  • According to one newspaper article, Forbes was suspected of having placed a larger portion of the assets into investment funds than was stipulated in the statutes.†   (source)
  • It was his creative work that he wished most to be remembered for: Here Was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.†   (source)
  • Because Nease was a public school, Dad started checking into the Florida statutes, as well as the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) rules and the rules of participation governing play in St. Johns County.†   (source)
  • In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them.†   (source)
  • Violators will be subject to disciplinary action according to statute COC47.†   (source)
  • The common law and statute law of England give it various meanings.†   (source)
  • It was in Richmond that Jefferson and James Madison crafted the statute separating church and state that would later inform the First Amendment of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • His place was one large room with creaky oak flooring that had shelves on three sides which held worn law books, will and deed boxes, and a fine set of the Statutes of Virginia.†   (source)
  • Statutory rape.†   (source)
  • All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality.†   (source)
  • Statutory.†   (source)
  • Eight thousand six hundred statute miles, sir.†   (source)
  • …gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make her an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head.†   (source)
  • A smother-charge, it was called, and its possession came under concealed weapons and possession-of-burglary-tools statutes in most places.†   (source)
  • —an attack upon the law which you have so wisely placed among the statutes of this state.†   (source)
  • So far as could be judged, his departure occurred before the statutory termination of his contract.†   (source)
  • But even more deplorable, he said, were the trials themselves, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute."†   (source)
  • Takes ALICE'S hand) I stand on the wrong side of no statute, and no common law.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, and quite frankly, the Deadman's Statute creates a … shady legal area.†   (source)
  • They haven't even reported that you broke the International Statute of Secrecy.†   (source)
  • Some states changed their statutes to create more hopeful sentences for child offenders.†   (source)
  • The statutes pertaining to banking confidentiality are among the most sacrosanct in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • Reverse march—eight thousand six hundred statute miles.†   (source)
  • Federal encroachment on state and municipal law-enforcement statutes.†   (source)
  • A few years later, a statute defined the term "frequent."†   (source)
  • New York's constitution includes the common and statute law of Great Britain.†   (source)
  • The second is the pretended establishment of the common and statute law by the constitution.†   (source)
  • These Statutes provided harsher penalties for offences committed by way of protests against laws.†   (source)
  • To me it felt like a grim sort of statutory rape and produced psychic impotence.†   (source)
  • Had his breach of the International Statute of Secrecy been severe enough to land him in a cell in Azkaban?†   (source)
  • Dumbledore's triumph, and its consequences for the Wizarding world, are considered a turning point in magical history to match the introduction of the International Statute of Secrecy or the downfall of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.†   (source)
  • Atticus had two weighty advantages: although the white girl was fourteen years of age the defendant was not indicted for statutory rape, therefore Atticus could and did prove consent.†   (source)
  • And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.†   (source)
  • 'Upon the signature of the International Statute of Secrecy in 1689, wizards went into hiding for good.†   (source)
  • In criminal cases, however, the Deadman's Statute does not bar such evidence from being presented, as Mr. Gudmundsson well knows.†   (source)
  • He had a stab at question five (How was the Statute of Secrecy breached in 1749 and what measures were introduced to prevent a recurrence?†   (source)
  • Astonished and appalled though his many admirers will be, this letter constitutes the Statute of Secrecy and establishing Wizard rule over Muggles.†   (source)
  • In 1945, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas statute that limited the number of black jurors to exactly one per case.†   (source)
  • "For want of a gentler title, the legal institution in question here is known as the Deadman's Statute," he explained.†   (source)
  • They'd have seen her as a serious threat to the International Statute of Secrecy, unbalanced like she was, with magic exploding out of her at moments when she couldn't keep it in any longer.†   (source)
  • I'm sure they'll clear you, there's definitely something in the International Statute of Secrecy about being allowed to use magic to save your own life.†   (source)
  • Between the passage of Alabama's new death penalty statute in 1975 and the end of 1988, there had been only three executions in Alabama.†   (source)
  • Because you know that Mrs. Heine is entitled under statute to report the nature and content of a conversation held with her deceased husband.†   (source)
  • As you have already received an official warning for a previous offence under Section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks' Statute of Secrecy, we regret to inform you that your presence is required at a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Magic at 9 a.m. on the twelfth of August.†   (source)
  • State legislatures enacted harsh new punishments for crimes, naming statutes after particular victims.†   (source)
  • Alabama's capital statute requires that any murder eligible for the death penalty be intentional, but it was clear that Herbert had no intent to kill the child.†   (source)
  • The witness makes reference to a currently defunct statute of the State of Washington which made it illegal at the time of which she speaks for an alien, a noncitizen, to hold title to real estate.†   (source)
  • 'Disciplinary hearing of the twelfth of August,' said Fudge in a ringing voice, and Percy began taking notes at once, 'into offences committed under the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy by Harry James Potter, resident at number four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey.†   (source)
  • …awareness of the illegality of his actions, having received a previous written warning from the Ministry of Magic on a similar charge, produce a Patronus Charm in a Muggle-inhabited area, in the presence of a Muggle, on the second of August at twenty-three minutes past nine, which constitutes an offence under Paragraph C of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875, and also under Section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks' Statute of Secrecy.†   (source)
  • Alabama's statute at the time limited what court-appointed lawyers could be paid for their out-of-court preparation time to $1,000, so the lawyer spent almost no time on the case.†   (source)
  • While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect.†   (source)
  • This "child chemical endangerment statute" was ostensibly passed to protect children living in households where there were meth labs or drug-trafficking operations.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until 1967 that the United States Supreme Court finally struck down anti-miscegenation statutes in Loving v. Virginia, but restrictions on interracial marriage persisted even after that landmark ruling.†   (source)
  • Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible.†   (source)
  • …the twentieth century In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen's—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by "anti-miscegenation statutes" (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters of slavery coined the term to promote the fear of interracial sex and marriage and the race mixing that would result if slavery was abolished).†   (source)
  • You can be prosecuted in a closed trial under the national security non-disclosure statutes if you violate the oath.'†   (source)
  • Legally, there's a statute that says that even prisoners have a right to practice their religion as long as it doesn't interfere with the running of the prison.†   (source)
  • 'No, this is: there's no statute of limitation on war crimes and murder, Mr Undersecretary, and murder and other violent crimes were committed against our own forces as well as allied personnel.†   (source)
  • The company, started by a few Harvard Law School graduates, relies on an admirable bit of statutory arcana: most states require universities to publish the lists of required texts of the courses they offer.†   (source)
  • It was why a country as enlightened as the United States could still have a death penalty statute in place: it was just too frightening to think about what justice—or lack of it—would prevail if we didn't.†   (source)
  • For years, he has written scholarly tomes about education of the minorities, from analysis of how the children of Japanese Americans interned during WWII were schooled, to a complex assessment of how statutory changes at the turn of the century allowed immigrant minorities-in those days Jews, Italians, and Irish— access to education.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the Constitution is preferred over the statute; the intention of the people is preferred to the intention of their agents.†   (source)
  • But the line between the different types of laws—common law, statute law, maritime law, ecclesiastical law, corporate law, and local laws and customs—still isn't clearly defined.†   (source)
  • Once selected, those leaders must have full scientific freedom to direct the bio-group in accordance with natural law, unhampered by such artificial anachronisms as statutes, constitutions, and courts of law.†   (source)
  • For the President—in addition to immediately calling a special session of Congress in which the Senate adopted a closure rule to limit debate (with Norris' support)—also announced that a further examination of the statutes had revealed that the executive power already included the right to arm ships without Congressional action.†   (source)
  • JUDGE Bertram Cates, this court has found you guilty of violating Public Act Volume 37, Statute Number 31428, as charged.†   (source)
  • Nominally for failing to report to a police station within the statutory period after release from prison.†   (source)
  • I am in a better position than most to be aware of the fact that there was not perfect compliance with the registration statute some years ago.†   (source)
  • (Hiccoughs) But since there has been no previous violation of this statute, there is no precedent to guide the bench in pasting sentence.†   (source)
  • "His power is severely li-MIT-ed," said Jannadeau gutturally, "by custom but not by statute.†   (source)
  • They may be dumb in many ways but they know the City's statutes backward and forward.†   (source)
  • He was familiar with the state's statutes and was completely capable of trying a case in court.†   (source)
  • The Grand Jurors chosen, selected and sworn in and for the said County of Cook, present that Bigger Thomas did rape and inflict sexual injury upon the body". strangulation by hand". smother to death and dispose of body by burning same in furnace". did with knife and hatchet sever head from body". said acts committed upon one Mary Dalton, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, against the peace and dignity of the People of the State of Illinois"."†   (source)
  • But this "temporary" state of things had gone on and on, the cost of living rose by leaps and bounds, and Grand's pay, in spite of some statutory rises, was still a mere pittance.†   (source)
  • And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.†   (source)
  • At thirty-five he had just been unwillingly evicted from the Youth League, and before graduating into the Youth League he had managed to stay on in the Spies for a year beyond the statutory age.†   (source)
  • The old brick wall by the Statutes ground burned scarlet, spring was a very flame of green.†   (source)
  • Yet no statutory crime of any kind there.†   (source)
  • What say our statutes, and how do our brethren observe them?†   (source)
  • They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them.†   (source)
  • By old English statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish.†   (source)
  • Truly there is, both in the Scripture and the statute-book.†   (source)
  • The Grand Master began reading the statutes.†   (source)
  • "Repeal this statute, my good sir?" says Mr. Kenge to a smarting client.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the words of the Masonic statutes, "be kindly and courteous," recurred to him.†   (source)
  • See Revised Statutes, Part I. chapter 20, p.675.†   (source)
  • See the Statutes of the State of Tennessee, arts.†   (source)
  • It has since then been adopted in the Revised Statutes of the same State.†   (source)
  • He managed to follow only the last words of the statutes and these remained in his mind.†   (source)
  • There were French statutes that would make conviction punishable by imprisonment or, at the very least, public expulsion from the country.†   (source)
  • Philosophically, Don Juan is a man who, though gifted enough to be exceptionally capable of distinguishing between good and evil, follows his own instincts without regard to the common statute, or canon law; and therefore, whilst gaining the ardent sympathy of our rebellious instincts (which are flattered by the brilliancies with which Don Juan associates them) finds himself in mortal conflict with existing institutions, and defends himself by fraud and farce as unscrupulously as a…†   (source)
  • All laws were repealed which extended the crime of treason beyond the statute of the twenty-fifth of Edward III.†   (source)
  • Gad! what a study might be made of the tyranny of the stomach—the way a sluggish liver or insufficient gastric juices might affect the whole course of the universe, overshadow everything in reach—chronic dyspepsia ought to be among the "statutory causes"; a woman's life might be ruined by a man's inability to digest fresh bread.†   (source)
  • A repeal also passed of that law, the destruction of all laws, by which the King's proclamation was made of equal force with a statute.†   (source)
  • Didn't you know that all men, and all women also, view it as wrong, and outside of marriage unforgivable—a statutory crime?"†   (source)
  • ; all laws enacted during the late reign extending the crime of felony; all the former laws against Lollardy or heresy, together with the statute of the Six Articles.†   (source)
  • But no matter—within the compass of a month thou shalt be free; and more, the laws that have dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the statute books.†   (source)
  • This peasant was suffering from this law BY ANTICIPATION; the King was venting his indignation against a law which was not yet in existence; for this hideous statute was to have birth in this little King's OWN REIGN.†   (source)
  • But if he (the Protector) gave offence by assuming too much state, he deserves great praise on account of the laws passed this session, by which the rigour of former statutes was much mitigated, and some security given to the freedom of the constitution.†   (source)
  • Peggotty then retired to her lodging, and Mr. Spenlow and I went into Court, where we had a divorce-suit coming on, under an ingenious little statute (repealed now, I believe, but in virtue of which I have seen several marriages annulled), of which the merits were these.†   (source)
  • It had its unwritten laws, and they were as clearly defined and as strict as any that could be found among the printed statutes of the land.†   (source)
  • …guilty to the charges made against him, had brought forward nothing in his defense, while the witnesses, so-and-so, and so-and-so, and the circumstances such-and-such testify against him, acting in accordance with such-and-such articles of the Statute Book, and so on, has ruled, that, in order to preclude so-and-so (Mitya) from all means of evading pursuit and judgment he be detained in such-and-such a prison, which he hereby notifies to the accused and communicates a copy of this same…†   (source)
  • But not till the Haytian Terror of Toussaint was the trade in men even checked; while the national statute of 1808 did not suffice to stop it.†   (source)
  • I do think, Judge Temple, that such dangerous amusements should be suppressed, by statute; nay, I doubt whether they are not already indict able at common law.†   (source)
  • It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments, forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read and write.†   (source)
  • Another party demanded that all written constitutions, set forms of government, legislative acts, statute-books, and everything else on which human invention had endeavored to stamp its arbitrary laws, should at once be destroyed, leaving the consummated world as free as the man first created.†   (source)
  • The priest becomes a form; the attorney a statute-book; the mechanic a machine; the sailor a rope of the ship.†   (source)
  • This rule was prescribed for the first time in the State of New York by a statute of February 23, 1786.†   (source)
  • The consequence was that the punishment of death was never more frequently prescribed by the statute, and never more rarely enforced towards the guilty.†   (source)
  • However, if these good Haudriettes were, for the moment, complying with the statutes of Pierre d'Ailly, they certainly violated with joy those of Michel de Brache, and the Cardinal of Pisa, which so inhumanly enjoined silence upon them.†   (source)
  • We are brought on to a day in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county-town of Casterbridge.†   (source)
  • They are, Miss Eyre, though they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.†   (source)
  • It seems that a complaint was made of the fact, and a suspicion that there was venison in the hut was sworn to, all which is provided for in the statute, when Judge Temple granted the search warrant.†   (source)
  • They were Agnes la Herme, Jehanne de la Tarme, Henriette la Gaultière, Gauchère la Violette, all four widows, all four dames of the Chapel Etienne Haudry, who had quitted their house with the permission of their mistress, and in conformity with the statutes of Pierre d'Ailly, in order to come and hear the sermon.†   (source)
  • They are forbidden by our statutes to take one bird by means of another, to shoot beasts with bow or arblast, to halloo to a hunting-horn, or to spur the horse after game.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER L THE SHEEP FAIR—TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE'S HAND Greenhill was the Nijni Novgorod of South Wessex; and the busiest, merriest, noisiest day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep fair.†   (source)
  • Some of the younger part, who had been inclined to smile at the statute 'De osculis fugiendis', became now grave enough, and anxiously waited what the Grand Master was next to propose.†   (source)
  • "What's the fees?" said Kirby, laying his large hand on the leaves of a statute-book that Hiram had opened in order to give dignity to his office, which he turned over in his rough manner, as if he were reflecting on a subject about which he had, in truth, already decided; "will they pay a man for a broken head?"†   (source)
  • Upon this score he was so jealous of austerity and reserve, that when the Dame de Beaujeu, the king's daughter, came to visit the cloister of Notre-Dame, in the month of December, 1481, he gravely opposed her entrance, reminding the bishop of the statute of the Black Book, dating from the vigil of Saint-Barthélemy, 1334, which interdicts access to the cloister to "any woman whatever, old or young, mistress or maid."†   (source)
  • See also the law against the Quakers, passed on October 14, 1656: "Whereas," says the preamble, "an accursed race of heretics called Quakers has sprung up," etc. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import Quakers into the country.†   (source)
  • It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom, and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the Act of Union and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.†   (source)
  • The French lawyer is simply a man extensively acquainted with the statutes of his country; but the English or American lawyer resembles the hierophants of Egypt, for, like them, he is the sole interpreter of an occult science.†   (source)
  • Within these limits the power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers which has ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.†   (source)
  • pp.411, 643, 717, 720; "The Statute Law of the State of Tennessee," vol.i. p.209; "Acts of the State of Ohio," pp.95 and 210; and "Digeste general des Actes de la Legislature de la Louisiane."†   (source)
  • See the Statutes of Ohio.†   (source)
  • See Revised Statutes, vol.iii.†   (source)
  • The American law makes an equal division of the father's property, but only in the case of his will not being known; "for every man," says the law, "in the State of New York (Revised Statutes, vol.iii.†   (source)
  • In the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, vol.i. p.662, is the following clause:— "Whoever shall win or lose in the space of twenty-four hours, by gaming or betting, the sum of twenty-five dollars, shall be found guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction shall be condemned to pay a fine equal to at least five times the value of the sum lost or won; which shall be paid to the inspector of the poor of the township.†   (source)
  • See Brevard's "Digest of the Public Statute Law of South Carolina," vol.i. pp.446 and 454, vol.ii. pp.218 and 338; "The General Laws of Massachusetts, revised and published by authority of the Legislature," vol.ii. pp.187 and 331; "The Revised Statutes of the State of New York," vol. ii. pp.411, 643, 717, 720; "The Statute Law of the State of Tennessee," vol.i. p.209; "Acts of the State of Ohio," pp.95 and 210; and "Digeste general des Actes de la Legislature de la Louisiane."†   (source)
  • See Brevard's "Digest of the Public Statute Law of South Carolina," vol.i. pp.446 and 454, vol.ii. pp.218 and 338; "The General Laws of Massachusetts, revised and published by authority of the Legislature," vol.ii. pp.187 and 331; "The Revised Statutes of the State of New York," vol. ii. pp.411, 643, 717, 720; "The Statute Law of the State of Tennessee," vol.i. p.209; "Acts of the State of Ohio," pp.95 and 210; and "Digeste general des Actes de la Legislature de la Louisiane."†   (source)
  • …in this wise: The high and mighty Emperor Lucius sendeth to the King of Britain greeting, commanding thee to acknowledge him for thy lord, and to send him the truage due of this realm unto the Empire, which thy father and other to-fore thy precessors have paid as is of record, and thou as rebel not knowing him as thy sovereign, withholdest and retainest contrary to the statutes and decrees made by the noble and worthy Julius Cesar, conqueror of this realm, and first Emperor of Rome.†   (source)
  • With the deadly precision of an automated mincing machine, he arranged each charge of the dittay on the slab of his scrutiny and diced it ruthlessly into shreds with the blade of statute and the cleaver of precedent.†   (source)
  • An attempt to move put paid to this notion, and after an allowance for the statutory amount of cursing and threatening, he at last reconciled himself to the idea that the only way to get loose was to tell us what we wanted to know.†   (source)
  • What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?†   (source)
  • To all whom it may concern schedule pursuant to statute showing return of number of mules and jennets exported from Ballina.†   (source)
  • Once that act was upon the statute-books and Comstock himself was given the amazingly inquisitorial powers of a post-office inspector, it became positively dangerous to print certain ancient and essentially decent English words.†   (source)
  • …in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being…†   (source)
  • It was during [Pg127] this time that the newspapers invented such locutions as /interesting/ (or /delicate/) /condition/, /criminal operation/, /house of ill/ (or /questionable/) /repute/, /disorderly-house/, /sporting-house/, /statutory offense/, /fallen woman/ and /criminal assault/.†   (source)
  • Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey…†   (source)
  • …public order, the repression of many abuses though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be contained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contravention of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by desuetude, all orotund…†   (source)
  • …aqueduct of filter mains of single and double pipeage constructed at an initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had…†   (source)
  • No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.†   (source)
  • Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs; That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures, Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness, Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.†   (source)
  • …axe, rifle, saddle-bags; The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons, The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men with their clear untrimm'd faces, The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves, The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint, The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification; The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the…†   (source)
  • …Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed, Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,) Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools, Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality; Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse, Of the conformity of politics,…†   (source)
  • …the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert, You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves, Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface; You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures, Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore, We pledge, we dedicate to you.†   (source)
  • 18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.†   (source)
  • 119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.†   (source)
  • To remedy this grievance, it was provided by a statute in the reign of Charles II.†   (source)
  • 119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.†   (source)
  • 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • 119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.†   (source)
  • 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.†   (source)
  • 119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.†   (source)
  • 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.†   (source)
  • 119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.†   (source)
  • 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.†   (source)
  • 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.†   (source)
  • 119:64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!†   (source)
  • 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.†   (source)
  • 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.†   (source)
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