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barrister
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  • After breakfast the barrister arrived and Rex delivered a summary of the case.†  (source)
  • He went to college, and he got — plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law: but he is such a dissipated young man, they will never make much of him, I think.†  (source)
  • You should have heard those Lahori barristers and politicians give speeches.†  (source)
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  • Ms. Barrister, I think your sister-in-law should rest now.†  (source)
  • But if anyone had suggested to my aunt that this Swann, who, in his capacity as the son of old M. Swann, was 'fully qualified' to be received by any of the 'upper middle class,' the most respected barristers and solicitors of Paris (though he was perhaps a trifle inclined to let this hereditary privilege go into abeyance), had another almost secret existence of a wholly different kind: that when he left our house in Paris, saying that he must go home to bed, he would no sooner have turned the corner than he would stop, retrace his steps, and be off to some drawing-room on whose like no stockbroker or associate of stockbrokers had ever set eyes—that would have seemed to my aunt as extraordina†  (source)
  • I wondered what the builder of the house, the distinguished barrister, Rhett St. Croix, would say if he knew that Will McLean was walking the streets of Charleston with a key to his house.†  (source)
  • Men are to be met with who have successively been barristers, farmers, merchants, ministers of the gospel, and physicians.†  (source)
  • Through a gentleman named Peter Holland at the Central Intelligence Agency, I was given an introduction to your friend Sir Henry Sykes over in Montserrat, who in turn introduced me to a retired London barrister St. Jacques rose quickly from the table to replenish his drink, his eyes warily on the former, disbarred judge.†  (source)
  • And I am afraid I have not the necessary push—I believe that is the name barristers give to their vulgarity—for success in pleading.†  (source)
  • Gumming his lips, he looked stoically at the table for the defense, where Mum was seated alongside the haglings and Bellagrog, who had elected to don an enormous barrister's wig for the occasion.†  (source)
  • —No going to law with nations; cannon are the barristers of Crowns; and the sword, not of justice, but of war, decides the suit.†  (source)
  • I learned an eclectic smattering of Commonwealth law from a traveling barrister too drunk or too pompous to realize he was lecturing an eight-year-old.†  (source)
  • Slowly, the awareness came to me that no matter what happened, my struggles and efforts could not eradicate the weight and inalienable supremacy of two hundred years: the children of slaves could not converse or compete with the offspring of planters, the descendants of London barristers, the progeny of sprawling, upward-climbing white America.†  (source)
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