Sample Sentences for
magistrate
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    The magistrate and the ministers will examine you.  (source)
    magistrate = judge
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    undergoing stern question before a magistrate  (source)
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    When the magistrate sentences "strokes with a light cane".  (source)
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    Mr Fraser is an Englishman, a retired magistrate, and he insisted on telling me at length about some of his cases.  (source)
    magistrate = judge
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    Tata's plan was to speak to Pompeii's magistrates — the men elected to lead the city.†  (source)
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    To these causes of public distress and apprehension, must be added, the multitude of outlaws, who, driven to despair by the oppression of the feudal nobility, and the severe exercise of the forest laws, banded together in large gangs, and, keeping possession of the forests and the wastes, set at defiance the justice and magistracy of the country.†  (source)
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    What return shall be made to the man who has never had the wit to be idle during his whole life; but has been careless of what the many care for—wealth, and family interests, and military offices, and speaking in the assembly, and magistracies, and plots, and parties.†  (source)
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    The chief saluted the magistrate, and...  (source)
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    The Inquest was held in the City Hall, with a number of Magistrates present, all staring and frowning; and an immense crowd of spectators, and Press men, pushing and shoving and jostling, so as to be in a better position to see and hear; and these had to be reprimanded several times, for disruption.†  (source)
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    To avoid this kind of embarrassment, the Quakers have of late years been gradually declining the public service in the Assembly and in the magistracy, choosing rather to quit their power than their principle.†  (source)
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    Were this principle rigorously adhered to, it would require that all the appointments for the supreme executive, legislative, and judiciary magistracies should be drawn from the same fountain of authority, the people, through channels having no communication whatever with one another.†  (source)
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    I'm merely the magistrate of the district.  (source)
    magistrate = judge (or investigating authority)
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    Frederick, it was said, intended to bring against them twenty men all armed with guns, and he had already bribed the magistrates and police, so that if he could once get hold of the title-deeds of Animal Farm they would ask no questions.†  (source)
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