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  • The one thing Putnam cannot do at this point is show clemency.†   (source)
  • Eragon overtook him in less than ten feet, and as the man was still crying and asking for clemency, Eragon wrapped his left hand around his neck and squeezed.†   (source)
  • Subsequently, a clemency appeal was presented to the newly elected Governor of Kansas, William Avery; but Avery, a rich farmer sensitive to public opinion, refused to intervene-a decision he felt to be in the "best interest of the people of Kansas."†   (source)
  • The defendants should receive clemency, he said, otherwise the future of South Africa would be bleak.†   (source)
  • Let's pray to God for his enemies to show him clemency.†   (source)
  • It had never occurred to me during the capital murder trial that all this might be whirling around in Shay's head; that the reason he did not get up and beg for clemency during sentencing was because in order to do that, it felt like he'd also be admitting to the crime.†   (source)
  • There is no clemency and no exchanges for a Russian 'momma.'†   (source)
  • He felt as though he were a condemned man submerged in the concrete depths of an inescapable prison, on a long death-row walk toward lethal punishment—yet simultaneously he believed in the possibility of clemency and rebirth.†   (source)
  • If the nobles had been loyal to the common people and treated them with clemency and justice, they would have won their contests with the monarch and the royal authority would have been weakened.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, Socrates--according to Plato--contends that the unmanly and pathetic practice of pleading for clemency disgraces the justice system of Athens.†   (source)
  • I implore you—you who have the power to give clemency and freedom—to reconsider my imprisonment in the light of my past good works, and to return me to my life in Warsaw.†   (source)
  • If you sue for his clemency you must first do his bidding.†   (source)
  • Let us forget Random in the courts of clemency.†   (source)
  • He commands benevolence, clemency, sympathy, tolerance, but not love; he forbade us to tie our heart in love to earthly things.†   (source)
  • For them there could be "no allowance, no clemency."†   (source)
  • But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.   (source)
  • Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.   (source)
  • Clemency is a fine, royal virtue, which turns aside the currents of wrath.   (source)
  • Do not you recollect, I came about six weeks ago to plead for clemency, as I come to-day to plead for justice.   (source)
  • Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us.  It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended power to confess our national sins and pray for clemency and forgiveness.   (source)
  • Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was insensible to the pleas for clemency.†   (source)
  • Even the Chief Justice recommended clemency, and with the aid of several strong petitions in her favour I was able to save her life.†   (source)
  • We had submitted an extensive clemency petition to the governor with affidavits from family members and color photographs, but I didn't expect anything in response.†   (source)
  • Clemency?†   (source)
  • We are still pursuing clemency for Trina Garnett, who is serving her life sentence in Pennsylvania, a state that doesn't recognize her right to resentencing despite the Supreme Court ruling.†   (source)
  • At that time, I asked the prison commissioner, who was communicating on an open telephone line to Governor George Wallace to grant clemency on the grounds that Mr. Evans was being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment.†   (source)
  • Governor Hunt quickly denied our request for clemency, declaring that he would not "go against the wishes of the community expressed by the jury that Mr. Lindsey be put to death," even though we stressed that the community's representatives—the jury—had done the opposite; it clearly elected to spare Lindsey's life.†   (source)
  • And on Saturday, February 13th, Colonel Read came up from the encampment with the word that General Putnam had refused our plea for clemency.†   (source)
  • A group might be less attuned to suspicious apprehensions or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency.†   (source)
  • Two months later, Avery also denied the clemency appeals of York and Latham, who were hanged on June 22, 1965.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when the causes of the sedition inflame the resentments of the majority party, they might be obstinate and inexorable when policy demands clemency.†   (source)
  • The prince took counsel with his physician, Narada, saying, "If I have misjudged the clemency of Heaven, then am I cursed indeed."†   (source)
  • Yet the King, out of his charity, And urged by your friends, offered clemency, Made a pact of peace, and all dispute ended Sent you back to your See as you demanded.†   (source)
  • He was ready to make any display of clemency, forgiveness or cowardice.†   (source)
  • He'll do his bit next time without any short-time or clemency foolishness.†   (source)
  • Clemency is a fine, royal virtue, which turns aside the currents of wrath.†   (source)
  • But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.†   (source)
  • Clemency is a royal virtue; employ it, and you will find that you derive advantage therein.†   (source)
  • This unwonted clemency was no small sign of it.†   (source)
  • This idea completely restored clemency to his heart.†   (source)
  • He threw himself on Monseigneur for clemency.†   (source)
  • Clemency beareth the torch before all the other virtues.†   (source)
  • Oh, sire! clemency is the only light which can enlighten the interior of so great a soul.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant, were that clearly lawful for us under the circumstances, consider the consequences of such clemency.†   (source)
  • Mrs. van der Luyden's attitude said neither yes nor no, but always appeared to incline to clemency till her thin lips, wavering into the shadow of a smile, made the almost invariable reply: "I shall first have to talk this over with my husband."†   (source)
  • Also variable public sentiment, whatever its convictions in any given case, was usually on the side of the form or gesture of clemency —without, however, any violence to its convictions.†   (source)
  • The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies coming, one after another, without interruption into the bosom of a family, will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician.†   (source)
  • I loved the dim superstition, the propitiatory intent, that had put the grave there; and still more I loved the spirit that could not carry out the sentence--the error from the surveyed lines, the clemency of the soft earth roads along which the home-coming wagons rattled after sunset.†   (source)
  • After many preliminary and futile efforts on the part of Belknap and Jephson to obtain a commutation of the sentence of Clyde from death to life imprisonment (the customary filing of a plea for clemency, together with such comments as they had to make in regard to the way the evidence had been misinterpreted and the illegality of introducing the letters of Roberta in their original form, to all of which Governor Waltham, an ex-district attorney and judge from the southern part of the…†   (source)
  • …any defense for Clyde, but rather to discover whether under the circumstances there was a possibility for a defense, Mason had urged upon him the wisdom of persuading Clyde to confess, since, as he insisted, there was not the slightest doubt as to his guilt, and a trial would but cost the county money without result to Clyde—whereas if he chose to confess, there might be some undeveloped reasons for clemency—at any rate, a great social scandal prevented from being aired in the papers.†   (source)
  • Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.†   (source)
  • It seemed that Caddy's unfortunate papa had got over his bankruptcy—"gone through the Gazette," was the expression Caddy used, as if it were a tunnel—with the general clemency and commiseration of his creditors, and had got rid of his affairs in some blessed manner without succeeding in understanding them, and had given up everything he possessed (which was not worth much, I should think, to judge from the state of the furniture), and had satisfied every one concerned that he could do…†   (source)
  • She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion.†   (source)
  • …to the times of old, and to those hideous eras of Roman oppression, when the manners of the people were corrupted, their traditions obliterated, their habits destroyed, their opinions shaken, and freedom, expelled from the laws, could find no refuge in the land; when nothing protected the citizens, and the citizens no longer protected themselves; when human nature was the sport of man, and princes wearied out the clemency of Heaven before they exhausted the patience of their subjects.†   (source)
  • They need not have cut off his head, if you please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for life.†   (source)
  • Do not you recollect, I came about six weeks ago to plead for clemency, as I come to-day to plead for justice.†   (source)
  • On this Sunday evening, he accompanied his brother to the gate with an air of endurance and clemency; being in a bland temper and graciously disposed to overlook the tears.†   (source)
  • But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to Biddy, and we dropped the subject.†   (source)
  • The door was opened before he had reached it, and, as if to put his clemency to rout with the suggestion of a richer opportunity, Mrs. Bread stood there awaiting him.†   (source)
  • " "And this was all he said?" enquired Ivanhoe; "would not any one say that this Prince invites men to treason by his clemency?"†   (source)
  • Your clemency, Monseigneur!†   (source)
  • The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity recommended them to the clemency of the government.†   (source)
  • This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, "May I?" and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the same fat five fingers.†   (source)
  • It was conceived as follows:— Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most closely unites sosiety.†   (source)
  • ') Once he asked the pensioner, in that general clemency which asked him anything to keep him afloat, how old his younger grandchild was?†   (source)
  • The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life.†   (source)
  • But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not inexorable.†   (source)
  • He was indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final…†   (source)
  • Compassion, which is the same thing as clemency, causeth the love of subjects, which is the most powerful bodyguard to a prince.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.†   (source)
  • But the knowledge would have been useless here; it was not called for; neither clemency nor dignity was put to the trial—Eleanor brought no message.†   (source)
  • Willoughby could not hear of her marriage without a pang; and his punishment was soon afterwards complete in the voluntary forgiveness of Mrs. Smith, who, by stating his marriage with a woman of character, as the source of her clemency, gave him reason for believing that had he behaved with honour towards Marianne, he might at once have been happy and rich.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED Coming now to the other qualities mentioned above, I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel.†   (source)
  • stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently.   (source)
    clemency = leniency (kindness shown toward offenders)
  • I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak.†   (source)
  • A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour: the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes, incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality, of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice, tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.†   (source)
  • Had the nobles, by a conduct of clemency and justice, preserved the fidelity and devotion of their retainers and followers, the contests between them and the prince must almost always have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority.†   (source)
  • I treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I observed both the soldiers and people were highly delighted at this mark of my clemency, which was represented very much to my advantage at court.†   (source)
  • If our innocence and her tears and mine can with strict justice open the door to clemency, extend it to us, for we never had any intention of injuring you, nor do we sympathise with the aims of our people, who have been justly banished.†   (source)
  • Both the good women kept strict silence during the whole scene between Mr Allworthy and the girl; but as soon as it was ended, and that gentleman was out of hearing, Mrs Deborah could not help exclaiming against the clemency of her master, and especially against his suffering her to conceal the father of the child, which she swore she would have out of her before the sun set.†   (source)
  • Now suppliants, from Laurentum sent, demand A truce, with olive branches in their hand; Obtest his clemency, and from the plain Beg leave to draw the bodies of their slain.†   (source)
  • But they could never gain my consent to put him to death, for the reasons above mentioned, since it was an Englishman (even yourself) who was my deliverer; and as merciful counsels are most prevailing when earnestly pressed, so I got them to be of the same opinion as to clemency.†   (source)
  • ...he accorded him his pardon with a clemency which will bring him praise in all the journals, and throughout all ages.†   (source)
  • Ent'ring, with cries they fill'd the holy fane; Then thus, with lowly voice, Ilioneus began: "O queen! indulg'd by favor of the gods To found an empire in these new abodes, To build a town, with statutes to restrain The wild inhabitants beneath thy reign, We wretched Trojans, toss'd on ev'ry shore, From sea to sea, thy clemency implore.†   (source)
  • " "An old book that," said the curate, "but I find no reason for clemency in it; send it after the others without appeal;" which was done.†   (source)
  • This was accorded with more good-will than it was accepted: for Partridge would rather have submitted to the utmost inclemency of the weather than have trusted to the clemency of those whom he took for hobgoblins; and the poor post-boy was now infected with the same apprehensions; but they were both obliged to follow the example of Jones; the one because he durst not leave his horse, and the other because he feared nothing so much as being left by himself.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, as men generally derive confidence from their numbers, they might often encourage each other in an act of obduracy, and might be less sensible to the apprehension of suspicion or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency.†   (source)
  • They are bred up in the principles of honour, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of their country; they are always employed in some business, except in the times of eating and sleeping, which are very short, and two hours for diversions consisting of bodily exercises.†   (source)
  • Why Sir, said he, you neither know whom you are protecting, nor what they have done: but pray come hither, and behold an instance of compassion, if such can merit your clemency; and with that he shewed me the poor fellow with his throat cut, hanging upon the tree.†   (source)
  • He can set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour of Achilles, the misfortunes of Hector, the treachery of Sinon, the friendship of Euryalus, the generosity of Alexander, the boldness of Caesar, the clemency and truth of Trajan, the fidelity of Zopyrus, the wisdom of Cato, and in short all the faculties that serve to make an illustrious man perfect, now uniting them in one individual, again distributing them among many; and if this be done with charm of style…†   (source)
  • But in justice to this prince's great clemency, and the care he has of his subjects' lives (wherein it were much to be wished that the Monarchs of Europe would imitate him), it must be mentioned for his honour, that strict orders are given to have the infected parts of the floor well washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they are in danger of incurring his royal displeasure.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when the sedition had proceeded from causes which had inflamed the resentments of the major party, they might often be found obstinate and inexorable, when policy demanded a conduct of forbearance and clemency.†   (source)
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  • Specifically, he believed in the inevitable influence of clement and inclement weathers.†   (source)
  • When I was invited to sing my song "Friends" at the memorial service in Clement Park, I really wondered to myself, "What can I offer this hurting community?"†   (source)
  • Clement's Machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision.†   (source)
  • The other murderer was Ned Clement, who'd gone for three years under the name Scythe, for the weapon he'd used to torture and hack apart temple priestesses.†   (source)
  • Auntie An-mei must have bought this on Clement Street.†   (source)
  • More like Innocent and Clement.†   (source)
  • This is Fred Clement, former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.†   (source)
  • And there's the St. Clement of Rome Parish Church on West Esplanade and Richland.†   (source)
  • Clement Godbout, head of the Quebec Federation of Labour, accused the McDonald's Corporation of shutting down the restaurant in order to send an unmistakable warning to its other workers in Canada.†   (source)
  • It was a family heirloom, more than a hundred years old, carved by a goldsmith from Siena and blessed by Clement IV.†   (source)
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  • And doxies sunning on the roof in clement weather and men with warrants outstanding for reckless endangerment and depraved indifference.†   (source)
  • In their stark, ghostly expressions was the strongest statement I have ever seen that life may not be governed by anything fair or clement.†   (source)
  • The most recent riot had been three days of burning, shooting and beatings in January 1989, after Miami police officer William Lozano shot Clement Lloyd, twenty-three, an unarmed black man who was driving toward the officer on a motorcycle.†   (source)
  • Brother Clement, may the Father judge him justly.†   (source)
  • But then he began to change his tune, especially after Clement L. Vallandigham was nominated for governor of Ohio on an antiwar platform, which "fell like a thunderbolt on this regiment," reported Welton.†   (source)
  • With men of the quality of Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse, and Rufus Clement, president of Atlanta University—to mention only two who are world-renowned—the intellectual climate is of high quality.†   (source)
  • The weather stayed clement and all of the wood to our left was a desolate, blackened ruin.†   (source)
  • A Hardy, a Cave, a Pyne, and three Crabbs, Clement and Rupert and Clarence the Short.†   (source)
  • He cut poor Clement's tongue out when he would not speak.†   (source)
  • Brother Clement was not the only wounded man amongst us.†   (source)
  • It was shortly after that dark day of April 20, 1999, at a memorial service in Clement Park for the victims of Columbine, that I met Misty Bernall for the first time.†   (source)
  • By the 1300s, the Vatican sanction had helped the Knights amass so much power that Pope Clement V decided that something had to be done.†   (source)
  • And though Celaena had stopped shaking, she could still hear the shriek and thump of Ned Clement hitting the ground.†   (source)
  • They speak about the house, which Gerald and Lydia bought back in the seventies, when no one wanted to live in the area, about the history of the neighborhood, and about Clement Clarke Moore, who Gerald explains was a professor of classics at the seminary across the street.†   (source)
  • The ceremony honored the creative magic of sexual union, but Pope Clement convinced everyone that Baphomet's head was in fact that of the devil.†   (source)
  • She looked down and beheld the body of Ned Clement, the murderer who'd called himself the Scythe and spent years in the labor camps of Calaculla for his crimes.†   (source)
  • As part of the temporary memorial set up in Clement Park after the shootings, fifteen crosses were erected: thirteen for the victims, and two for their murderers.†   (source)
  • Despite Clement's false charges and best efforts to eradicate them, the Knights had powerful allies, and some managed to escape the Vatican purges.†   (source)
  • Pope Clement had been asked by God to cleanse the earth by rounding up all the Knights and torturing them until they confessed their crimes against God.†   (source)
  • The Templars' potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power, was Clement's true objective, but it slipped through his fingers.†   (source)
  • In a military maneuver worthy of the CIA, Pope Clement issued secret sealed orders to be opened simultaneously by his soldiers all across Europe on Friday, October 13 of 1307.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of the notorious Templar round-up in 1307—unlucky Friday the thirteenth—when Pope Clement killed and interred hundreds of Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†   (source)
  • 'Oh-"Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's."†   (source)
  • It was a church at one time, St Clement's Danes, its name was.'†   (source)
  • St Clement's Danes its name was.'†   (source)
  • At the Convent School of Saint Catherine's on Saint Clement's Road, Sister Theresa, the Mother Superior, walked softly through the dormitory lifting the window-shade beside each cot, letting the orchard cherry-apple bloom come gently into the long cool glade of roseleaf sleeping girls.†   (source)
  • We could watch the madmen, on clement days, sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks and pleasantly planted lawns; happy collaborationists who had given up the unequal struggle, all doubts resolved, all duty done, the undisputed heirs-at-law of a century of progress, enjoying the heritage at their ease.†   (source)
  • It wasn't any apostle-crossed or Aeneas-stirred Mediterranean, the clement, silky, marvelous beauty-sparkle bath in which all the ancientest races were children.†   (source)
  • Almost at random he said: 'Did you ever happen to hear an old rhyme that begins "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's"?'†   (source)
  • He would buy the engraving of St Clement Danes, take it out of its frame, and carry it home concealed under the jacket of his overalls.†   (source)
  • He smiled apologetically, as though conscious of saying something slightly ridiculous, and added: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's!'†   (source)
  • Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's!†   (source)
  • The fragment of rhyme that Mr Charrington had taught him came back into his head, and he added half-nostalgically: "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's!†   (source)
  • "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's — "there, now, that's as far as I can get.†   (source)
  • With a sort of grave courtesy he completed the stanza: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's, When will you pay me?†   (source)
  • He had even started humming to an improvised tune Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's, You owe me three farthings, say the Suddenly his heart seemed to turn to ice and his bowels to water.†   (source)
  • Your clement sentence they would account pusillanimous.†   (source)
  • He disposed of his rooms in Clement's Inn and went to Italy.†   (source)
  • It was the plan of Alexander VI. and Clement VII.†   (source)
  • We were married, you know, at St. Clement's, because Wickham's lodgings were in that parish.†   (source)
  • Were the accomplices of Ravaillac or of Jacques Clement ever known?†   (source)
  • "Giles—Clement—dogs and varlets!" exclaimed the furious Norman, "what have you brought me here?"†   (source)
  • "Sir," cried she, "be kind, be clement, listen to my prayer!†   (source)
  • Clement! false-hearted, knaves, where tarry ye?†   (source)
  • He had charming rooms in Clement's Inn, with panelled walls, and he tried to make them look like his old rooms at the Hall.†   (source)
  • The owner, who was leaning against the settle's outer end, was Clement Yeobright, or Clym, as he was called here; she knew it could be nobody else.†   (source)
  • Respecting the chief of the Southdown family, Clement William, fourth Earl of Southdown, little need be told, except that his Lordship came into Parliament (as Lord Wolsey) under the auspices of Mr. Wilberforce, and for a time was a credit to his political sponsor, and decidedly a serious young man.†   (source)
  • It grew attached to them when they were clement and just, and it submitted without resistance or servility to their exactions, as to the inevitable visitations of the arm of God.†   (source)
  • Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance.†   (source)
  • A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man.†   (source)
  • "Is that you, Clement?" he asked.†   (source)
  • "Since your majesty is so clement," replied the leech, "you will not refuse to aid me a little in building my house, Rue Saint-André-des-Arcs."†   (source)
  • Napoleon certainly he knew something of, inasmuch as he had seen and spoken with him; but of Clement VII. and Alexander VI. he knew nothing.†   (source)
  • When kings find that the hearts of their subjects are turned towards them, they are clement, because they are conscious of their strength, and they are chary of the affection of their people, because the affection of their people is the bulwark of the throne.†   (source)
  • Well, such a woman, who would place the knife of Jacques Clement or of Ravaillac in the hands of a fanatic, would save France.†   (source)
  • "The Priest," said Clement, "is not half so confident of the Jew's conversion, since he received that buffet on the ear."†   (source)
  • The Hermit of St Clement's Well It was after three hours' good walking that the servants of Cedric, with their mysterious guide, arrived at a small opening in the forest, in the centre of which grew an oak-tree of enormous magnitude, throwing its twisted branches in every direction.†   (source)
  • At ten o'clock in the morning the Sieur de la Coste, ensign in the king's Guards, followed by two officers and several archers of that body, came to the city registrar, named Clement, and demanded of him all the keys of the rooms and offices of the hotel.†   (source)
  • Giles, Clement, and Eustace!†   (source)
  • —Clement and Giles!†   (source)
  • He had just been created a cardinal by Leo X. In 1523 Giuliano was elected Pope, and took the title of Clement VII.†   (source)
  • A jester at the court of his master, indulged and disesteemed, winning a clement master's praise.†   (source)
  • I was once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet.†   (source)
  • I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.†   (source)
  • The first enumeration of all the Bookes, both of the Old, and New Testament, is in the Canons of the Apostles, supposed to be collected by Clement the first (after St. Peter) Bishop of Rome.†   (source)
  • [2] Clement V., who will come from Avignon, and in a little more than ten years after the death of Boniface.†   (source)
  • The prophecy of the death of Clement after a shorter time affords an indication that this canto was not written until after 1314, the year of his death.†   (source)
  • Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old; certain she 's old; and had Robin Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.†   (source)
  • I remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at Clement's Inn,—I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's show,—there was a little quiver fellow, and a' would manage you his piece thus; and a' would about and about, and come you in and come you in: "rah, tah, tah," would a' say; "bounce" would a' say; and away again would a' go, and again would 'a come: I shall ne'er see such a fellow.†   (source)
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