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  • He then adjourned the proceedings until ten o'clock the next morning, admonishing the jurors, as he had done many times before, not to read, listen to, or watch news reports of the trial, and not to discuss the case with anyone.†   (source)
  • At six o'clock Ed Soames made the announcement: the jurors had adjourned for the night.†   (source)
  • Somebody move to adjourn.†   (source)
  • This court is adjourned.†   (source)
  • 'Court's adjourned,' she whispered, and then she ran.†   (source)
  • The study was too close to the children's bedrooms for a late-night talk, so the headmistress and I adjourned to a little greenhouse that edged the woods.†   (source)
  • I'll agree to adjourn until Monday.†   (source)
  • "Meeting adjourned," the others said.†   (source)
  • As Coin adjourns the meeting, Haymitch asks her if he can speak to me privately.†   (source)
  • Meeting adjourned.†   (source)
  • Yes, yes, we will adjourn indoors.†   (source)
  • And the war council adjourned.†   (source)
  • The motion was overruled, but the House voted for a brief adjournment.†   (source)
  • Meeting is adjourned.†   (source)
  • Whenever the conference adjourned, I noticed, as no doubt his lordship did with some concern, that Mr Lewis would quickly take M. Dupont away to some corner or other where they could confer quietly.†   (source)
  • For Grace's sake, they had adjourned all decision on what future, if any, their marriage might have.†   (source)
  • Court had adjourned; the noises of the departing audience clattered in the corridor beyond the lavatory door.†   (source)
  • We adjourned to the conference room, and in a few moments, Red Stevens was once again speaking to us from the video screen.†   (source)
  • Every Saturday, there'd be a morning prayer meeting at the Atkins house in the Highland Dwellings public housing project that would adjourn to the streets, and Phillip and his father would go door to door proselytizing and passing out The Watch lower, hallmark ot the Jehovah's Witnesses.†   (source)
  • The meeting is adjourned, then, I hear her say.†   (source)
  • Eragon had obeyed, and there he had remained while Orik forced the clanmeet to adjourn until the following morning, on the grounds that an emergency had arisen within his clan that required his immediate attention.†   (source)
  • The same day as Lee's capture, Washington learned that Congress had adjourned in order to move to a safer location at Baltimore.†   (source)
  • If not, the jury will adjourn to render a verdict.†   (source)
  • The meeting was adjourned.†   (source)
  • There followed a brief discussion about future direction and development plans; Berger was reelected as chair of the board for the coming year; and then the meeting was adjourned.†   (source)
  • The meeting is immediately adjourned.†   (source)
  • The court adjourned while Hufsa led Prince Rainbow to the hole.†   (source)
  • If you need to speak with me, we can adjourn briefly to my office.†   (source)
  • This meeting is adjourned.†   (source)
  • And now, Brothers," he said, his eyes sweeping around the table, "the meeting is adjourned."†   (source)
  • We shall adjourn for the present.†   (source)
  • Let us adjourn to the solar whilst my son consummates his marriage.†   (source)
  • At the conclusion of Baldwin's statement, Thompson adjourned the court until 8:00 A.M. the next morning.†   (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)
  • We adjourned and I heard no more.†   (source)
  • This case is adjourned.†   (source)
  • When the meeting adjourned, the men hastened to leave.†   (source)
  • Two previous meetings had been adjourned because of their volatile debates, and Regis couldn't let this council disintegrate before he had told them of the impending barbarian attack.†   (source)
  • Someone in the room giggled, someone else moaned, "Oh, no!" and our faculty advisor stood up and suggested that the meeting be adjourned.†   (source)
  • After more witnesses had paraded through court, showing that Louisa was utterly incapable of conscious decision, and Cotton only able to slap at bits and pieces of their testimony, the trial was adjourned for the day and Cotton and the children left the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Meeting adjourned.†   (source)
  • We'll adjourn until one thirty for lunch.†   (source)
  • The President can only adjourn Congress in the single case of disagreement about the time of adjournment.†   (source)
  • The hearing had barely started when the Commissioner adjourned the court, to the great surprise of the people who were present.†   (source)
  • Hardly was the sun risen (at three A.M.) when they all left the den and adjourned to a nearby sandy knoll.†   (source)
  • Then let us adjourn to my Pavilion of Joys and discuss the matter fully.†   (source)
  • The defense holds that the court shall be adjourned.†   (source)
  • It's Mama, Andrew shouted joyfully, and he and Hannah explained how she had suggested, in her most ladylike way, that they adjourn the discussion for the evening when all they were discussing was how much whiskey Mary could stand, and it was as if she meant that Mary was much too thirsty to wait out any more of it; and Joel gave a snort of amusement and then was caught into the contagion of this somewhat hysterical laughter, and they all roared, laughing their heads off†   (source)
  • We looked and laughed at each other for half an hour, and adjourned.†   (source)
  • (Request granted) Meeting adjourned Clock face Hour hand at 9 Minute hand at 01 Second hand at Demolition Powell arrived home an hour later†   (source)
  • "This meeting of the council is adjourned," Silenus said.†   (source)
  • You may adjourn and begin your deliberations.†   (source)
  • I say we adjourn and get a few hours of sleep.†   (source)
  • Just one more thing before we adjourn....†   (source)
  • Your Honor, I just want to say this before we adjourn.†   (source)
  • The night was growing late, and the children, exhausted, decided to adjourn.†   (source)
  • After the meeting was adjourned and the girls had gone, Sticky and Reynie climbed into their hunks.†   (source)
  • Judge Iversen agreed that the court should adjourn for lunch.†   (source)
  • Maggie After court had adjourned for the weekend, I took a trip to the ladies' room.†   (source)
  • Reyna will meet you there after the senate adjourns.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we should adjourn until the morrow.†   (source)
  • As SOON AS CONGRESS ADJOURNED on August 12, the government began packing for the move.†   (source)
  • The Senate immediately confirmed the appointments and a day later, March 4, Congress adjourned.†   (source)
  • If there are no more questions—I hope there are none—I will adjourn this meeting.†   (source)
  • Senators, let us adjourn to the forum and meet our ...new friends.†   (source)
  • The jury will adjourn and make its decision.†   (source)
  • Adjourned," and slammed it onto the surface of his bench.†   (source)
  • Justice de Wet gave us a three-week adjournment until October 29.†   (source)
  • The British monarch can adjourn or even dissolve the Parliament.†   (source)
  • The Court adjourned an hour and a half for lunch and then Baldwin began.†   (source)
  • Court's adjourned, and I want to see counsel in my chambers.†   (source)
  • At 5:30, Judge Atlee adjourned until Thursday morning.†   (source)
  • Presently Prof said tiredly, "The Government Cabinet is adjourned.†   (source)
  • In the morning the muffled bells of Christ Church commenced to toll and Congress adjourned.†   (source)
  • Court would then have to be adjourned while Van Rensburg went out to gather "further particulars."†   (source)
  • The day was uneventful until a few hours after adjournment when Judson was having his dinner.†   (source)
  • The governor of New York can also adjourn the State legislature for a limited time.†   (source)
  • It was a little after four in the afternoon, the time court normally adjourned.†   (source)
  • On July 16, Congress adjourned and departed the city with a rush.†   (source)
  • He adjourned the court until the next morning.†   (source)
  • By late Thursday afternoon, the trial had ground to a near halt, and Judge Atlee adjourned early.†   (source)
  • He adjourned the hearing after thirty minutes and disappeared from the bench.†   (source)
  • This court is adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow morning.†   (source)
  • Court was adjourned for three weeks while de Wet considered the verdict.†   (source)
  • This court is adjourned until Tuesday, December fourth.†   (source)
  • Testimony ended and court was adjourned.†   (source)
  • Court adjourned until 8:00 A.M. two days hence.†   (source)
  • After dinner, we continued celebrating and somehow the party got adjourned back to the installation.†   (source)
  • Then let us adjourn to the courtyard, where I will proceed to enlighten you.†   (source)
  • JUDGE (Over the confusion) Court is adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow morning!†   (source)
  • They attempted to adjourn, to recess, to make a quorum impossible.†   (source)
  • A motion to adjourn is always in order, it takes precedence, and it cannot be debated.†   (source)
  • The delegates, having attended the morning session of the convention, had adjourned for dinner.†   (source)
  • You can't refuse a motion to adjourn," Rod insisted.†   (source)
  • The House had adjourned and all of its members were in the Senate chamber.†   (source)
  • I am sure that everyone here will wish to remain after the court is adjourned to hear your address.†   (source)
  • The JUDGE raps the gavel) I hereby declare this court is adjourned, sine die.†   (source)
  • Jimmy got reluctantly to his feet, took a breath and shouted, "I move we adjourn!"†   (source)
  • When the hour hand pointed to the arrival of noon, the chairman announced adjournment.†   (source)
  • We adjourned and went to sleep, those who weren't already.'†   (source)
  • After one particularly grisly stretch of Dr. Scott's testimony, Holmes stood and said, "I would ask that the Court be adjourned for sufficient time for lunch."†   (source)
  • It's a nice day out, and we'll adjourn and give the jury the rest of the day off unless somebody has an objection.†   (source)
  • We'll adjourn court for the weekend.'†   (source)
  • The meeting adjourned.†   (source)
  • When Plutarch finishes and the meeting's adjourned, I have a bad moment when I learn there's a special order for me.†   (source)
  • Let us adjourn.†   (source)
  • And if we adjourn to the study, my friends, it would be my honor to show you Da Vinci's painting of her.†   (source)
  • He started with the moment that he walked out of Sterling High with Josie Cormier in his arms and placed her in an ambulance, and ended with the last body being moved to the medical examiner's morgue; then the judge adjourned court for the day.†   (source)
  • The trial would adjourn until eight o'clock the following morning, at which time the power company expected to have the lights on.†   (source)
  • "Judge, I—" 'Adjourned."†   (source)
  • But as she was sleepier than any of them — she'd been rubbing her eyes for an hour — she consented to adjourn the meeting.†   (source)
  • The others agreed, the meeting adjourned, and in a few minutes the girls had disappeared into the ceiling and the boys had gone to bed.†   (source)
  • Court is adjourned.†   (source)
  • The assembly, suppressing a growl of disgust at Mr. Tuffett's indulgence in the oldest schoolmaster's trick on record, adjourned and followed him to the front of the building.†   (source)
  • Per the instructions that all of you received in advance, we will now adjourn for thirty minutes to allow you to discuss the order with your clients.†   (source)
  • Ser Gunthor had studied at the Citadel for several years and spoke the Summer Tongue, so he and Qurulu Mo adjourned to the captain's cabin for a privy conference.†   (source)
  • And so the meeting adjourned.†   (source)
  • If none achieved that feat, then according to Dwarvish law, the clan chief with the least votes would be eliminated from the competition and the meet could adjourn for up to three days before voting again.†   (source)
  • If I decide that the court will adjourn until Monday and accommodate your wishes insofar as I see no reason to keep your client in custody any longer—which would mean that you could expect that, no matter what else happens, she will not be given a prison sentence—can you guarantee that she will appear for continued proceedings when summoned?†   (source)
  • In the course of the day, Joseph Reed arrived from Bristol, accompanied by Congressman and physician Benjamin Rush, who, since the adjournment of Congress, had reported to Reed and Cadwalader to volunteer his services.†   (source)
  • Ninety minutes later the court adjourned, the case for the defense having been completed in that brief time.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, before they adjourned, Mr. Tuffett would say he knew who did it, and if the party wished leniency he would appear at his office not later than two o'clock with a statement in writing.†   (source)
  • But his statement, written in a stylized script that looked like slanting rain, was finished before the court adjourned for the day: I will try to tell you all I can about myself, though most of my early life is vague to me-up until about my tenth birthday.†   (source)
  • This house recessed without adjourning and Chairman of Committee on Permanent Organization, Resolutions, and Government Structure still has the floor.†   (source)
  • The President can only adjourn Congress in the single case of disagreement about the time of adjournment.†   (source)
  • Then knew why Greg had not gone back to Mare Undarum site after Congress adjourned that morning; somebody had asked for a Family talk-talk.†   (source)
  • the United States, except in cases of impeachment; "to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; "he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses of the legislature, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed; "and to commission all officers of the United States."†   (source)
  • Jefferson proposed that members of Congress adjourn at once and go home to consult their constituents on the great crisis.†   (source)
  • When Wilson of Pennsylvania, who agreed with him, moved that the doors be opened, galleries erected, or that Congress adjourn to some public building where the people might be accommodated, Adams enthusiastically seconded the motion, but to no avail.†   (source)
  • I resolved that if he acted in that finger-wagging fashion with me I would have to inform him that I found such behavior unacceptable, and I would then stand up and adjourn the meeting.†   (source)
  • He adjourned court and disappeared.†   (source)
  • Around midnight they passed Embargo, then adjourned subject to call ....standing committees to continue.†   (source)
  • The only remaining powers of the Executive include:
    giving information to Congress on the state of the Union,
    recommending to their consideration measures he thinks expedient,
    convening Congress or either house on extraordinary occasions,
    adjourning them when they cannot themselves agree on the time of adjournment,
    receiving ambassadors and other public ministers,
    faithfully executing the laws, and
    commissioning all the officers of the United States.†   (source)
  • We go to Congress at nine and there we stay, most earnestly engaged until three in the afternoon, then we adjourn and go to dinner with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four o'clock and feast on ten thousand delicacies, and sit drinking Madeira, claret and burgundy 'til six or seven.†   (source)
  • The meeting was adjourned.†   (source)
  • The hearing stands adjourned.†   (source)
  • The only remaining powers of the Executive include:
    giving information to Congress on the state of the Union,
    recommending to their consideration measures he thinks expedient,
    convening Congress or either house on extraordinary occasions,
    adjourning them when they cannot themselves agree on the time of adjournment,
    receiving ambassadors and other public ministers,
    faithfully executing the laws, and
    commissioning all the officers of the United States.†   (source)
  • Court was then adjourned.†   (source)
  • If Adams had had any thought of asking for a declaration of war before Congress adjourned, he changed his mind.†   (source)
  • offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment; "to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; "he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses of the legislature, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed; "and to commission all officers of the United States."†   (source)
  • Those busy laddies split up and did it—studied forms of government in Carnegie Library, held subcommittee meetings, three or four people at a time (few enough to worry Prof had he known)—and when Congress met early in September to ratify some appointments and elect more congressmen-at-large, instead of adjourning, Comrade Baum had gavel and they recessed—and met again and turned selves into committee-of-the-whole and passed a resolution and next thing we knew entire Congress was a Constitutional Convention divided into working groups headed by those subcommittees.†   (source)
  • Washington's address, all of two paragraphs, lasted but minutes, and Adams, like others present, was soon on his way home, Congress having adjourned until December.†   (source)
  • A wave of exhausted relief flowed down over his body, draining so much strength from his limbs that he could barely stand as court was adjourned.†   (source)
  • Adams followed in May, once Congress adjourned, and the long summer at home, far removed from the hornets' nest of election-year politics at the capital, did much to restore them both.†   (source)
  • Adams agreed and court was adjourned.†   (source)
  • With Baldwin finished, Chief Justice Tanny adjourned the court until the next day when Adams would offer his defense.†   (source)
  • He labored at these essays for months, during which Congress adjourned and he returned to Massachusetts to join Washington for part of his visit there, proudly escorting the President on a tour of Harvard.†   (source)
  • Judson adjourned the court until 10:00 A.M. on Monday, January 14, at which time he would issue his decision.†   (source)
  • Isham had met with Holabird, Hungerford, and Judson after court was adjourned and offered to drop Gedney and Meade's claims if the trial were immediately discontinued.†   (source)
  • Court was adjourned at 4:35 P.M. In the evening, when Tappan was finished talking to the press and had returned to his hotel, the desk clerk handed him a small package that had been delivered by an express cargo carrier.†   (source)
  • Court adjourned.†   (source)
  • He appointed about a thousand committees but no executive committee unless he did it after we adjourned.†   (source)
  • Once all hands had been presented to the Gordon, Hero First Class, we adjourned to get ready for the banquet that Jocko, cheated of his three months of revelry, had swapped for his first intention.†   (source)
  • After anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour of conviviality (in which the pups took part, getting under everyone's feet and nipping promiscuously at any adult tail they might encounter) the three adults would adjourn to the crest of the den, usually led by Angeline.†   (source)
  • Many Senators surrendered their seats tobecome members of the House, or to hold other state and local offices; and the Senate frequently adjourned to permit its members to hear an important House debate.†   (source)
  • Jump to your feet and move to adjourn.†   (source)
  • Cowper held up both hands for silence, then called out, "It has been moved and seconded that we adjourn.†   (source)
  • The meeting is adjourned.†   (source)
  • They adjourned to the pump.†   (source)
    adjourned = took a break or closed
  • The apartment on the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tribune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, tobacco-ashes, and general flavour of members, were still as that convivial institution had left them on its adjournment.†   (source)
    adjournment = the act of taking a break or closing
  • She laid her hand upon his arm, and he took her over the way; the crowd, rather injured by the near prospect of losing her, pressing before and behind and on either side, and recommending an adjournment to Bedlam.†   (source)
  • 'Painfully aware, Miss Dorrit, I am sure,' said Flora, 'that to propose an adjournment to any place to one so far removed by fortune and so courted and caressed by the best society must ever appear intruding even if not a pie-shop far below your present sphere and a back-parlour though a civil man but if for the sake of Arthur—cannot overcome it more improper now than ever late Doyce and Clennam—one last remark I might wish to make one last explanation I might wish to offer perhaps your good nature might excuse under pretence of three kidney ones the humble place of conversation.'†   (source)
  • I think we'd better adjourn this discussion and go to bed.†   (source)
  • The judge rapped for order, and said: "Court will adjourn for one hour."†   (source)
  • Philip Lombard murmured beneath his breath: "The court will now adjourn...."†   (source)
  • The three men had adjourned to M. Deroulard's study.†   (source)
  • The people stand when the Court is adjourned, and while the Judge and his assessors leave the Court.†   (source)
  • "The Court will adjourn for one hour and reconvene at one o"clock," the judge said.†   (source)
  • Court adjourned.†   (source)
  • Before the congress adjourned, it was decided that another congress of American writers would be called in New York the following summer, 1935.†   (source)
  • After first-aid and a thorough medical examination by Dr. Jefferson Reginald Alfonso Spaugh, the popular GIN-ecologist, the guests adjourned to the Ball Room where dance music was provided by Zeke Buckner's Upper Hominy Stringed Quartette, Mr. Buckner himself officiating at the trap drum and tambourine.†   (source)
  • So the party adjourned to my sitting-room and we played for low stakes until late into the night, when Julia left and our host had drunk too much wine to be surprised that she and I were not in the same quarters.†   (source)
  • At the end of the proceedings today, the Adjournment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, the 21st of May, with, of course, provision for earlier meeting, if need be.†   (source)
  • But all he did was to point out the lateness of the hour and to ask for an adjournment till the following afternoon.†   (source)
  • Adjourned for a week.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, after some palavering among the bench, the Prosecutor, and my counsel, the presiding judge announced that the court would now rise; there was an adjournment till the afternoon, when evidence would be taken.†   (source)
  • pursuant to adjournment".†   (source)
  • As they adjourned, a hundred men crushed in to slap his back.†   (source)
  • But with that particular incident the court was adjourned for this day.†   (source)
  • It was after the first adjournment, and he came up with me in the street.†   (source)
  • This body passed a resolution to adjourn for the purpose of visiting Tuskegee.†   (source)
  • I'd adjourn to some other room, wherever you like to show me to.†   (source)
  • Howsomever, court was adjourned before the judge passed sentence.†   (source)
  • Very soon after that exchange of glances the inquiry was adjourned again to the next day.†   (source)
  • The court had about adjourned fer thet judge.†   (source)
  • Maggie felt a great relief in adjourning the decision.†   (source)
  • The Judges having to take part in a public demonstration out of doors, the Tribunal adjourned.†   (source)
  • Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance.†   (source)
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