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  • My grandmother still lives in the same home in the Bronx, presiding as ever as the family matriarch.†   (source)
  • This made little sense to us, because a Monroe County judge had presided over the trial, but there was nothing we could do.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci presided over the Priory between 1510 and 1519 as the brotherhood's Grand Master, which might help explain your grandfather's passion for Leonardo's work.†   (source)
  • A thousand frozen stars preside over the quad.†   (source)
  • It sat back from the street, aloof behind its apron of lawn and its cast-iron fence, not so much looking out on the square as presiding over it.†   (source)
  • Having never presided over a trial of murder in the first degree before, he felt himself in a precarious position: if the jury returned a guilty verdict the decision would be his alone as to whether the accused man should hang.†   (source)
  • At ten a.m., Martin Stanley, the bailiff, stood up and announced that the court was in session, Judge Lyle Ottarson presiding.†   (source)
  • I once presided over an involuntary emergency admission at the state mental hospital for a woman who thought she was Emeril.†   (source)
  • Over all rituals, over all services—over every rite of passage— Owen Meany would preside.†   (source)
  • I was going to ask you to preside over the toast—as a representation of the Goddess.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen," said a slightly singsong voice, and with a slight shock, Harry saw the same small, tufty-hired wizard who had presided at Dumbledore's funeral, now standing in front of Bill and Fleur.†   (source)
  • I separated from Brinker in the quadrangle, since one of his clubs was meeting and he could not go back to the dormitory yet—"I've got to preside at a meeting of the Golden Fleece Debating Society tonight," he said in a tone of amazed contempt, "the Golden Fleece Debating Society!†   (source)
  • In fact I was once a trusted advisor to certain high officials, many of whom presided over government agencies.†   (source)
  • He tried for a second or two to entertain himself with the idea of a ghost, but he had no belief in the supernatural, not even in the supremely undemanding being that presided over the Norman church in the village.†   (source)
  • He tells her he did not become headmaster of Leamy's National School to preside over an academy of messenger boys.†   (source)
  • Six-Fingers, the chairman of the new Neighborhood Dictatorship Group, presided over them, wearing a red armband and an expression of importance.†   (source)
  • She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV.†   (source)
  • The setting-up was held in the yard because nobody besides himself would enter 124—an injury Sethe answered with another by refusing to attend the service Reverend Pike presided over.†   (source)
  • It is odd to see his father presiding in the kitchen, standing in his mother's place at the stove.†   (source)
  • Timur goes on about the paperwork Farooq will file, the judge he is hoping will preside over the proceedings, a second cousin of Farooq's wife.†   (source)
  • David's uncle, Halina Wind's brother, Rabbi Leon Wind, presided over the ceremony, and spoke eloquently, with reverence and power.†   (source)
  • A couple of weeks later, I began preparing to preside over a funeral at church.†   (source)
  • The hall was so cold, the presiding officer announced that men could keep their hats on.†   (source)
  • With my eyes on income-and-outlay, the shop was doing better and soon we were able to hire a saleslady to preside over the front room while Father and I worked in back.†   (source)
  • The Reverend forbade us to observe any ritual over which he was not asked to preside, but twice, at night, I slipped out to spy on the funerals.†   (source)
  • So she and Mama decided the next step would be to go to the presiding bishops of our community's churches.†   (source)
  • I was dying as a human, yet completely alive as a vampire; and with my awakened senses, I had to preside over the death of my body with a certain discomfort and then, finally, fear.†   (source)
  • There'll be a presiding justice and a board of officers acting as the jury.†   (source)
  • He'd done it in spite of presiding over what had to be one of America's most dysfunctional football teams.†   (source)
  • It was a mediocre boardinghouse for penniless students, presided over by a middle-aged couple with a calling for espionage.†   (source)
  • Despite his sense of humor and his often wry look at higher authority, he was a very fine SEAL commander, and hie presided over one of the best fighting platoons in the entire U.S. Navy.†   (source)
  • I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city's sewer system.†   (source)
  • At the Herndon House Hotel, around the corner from Ford's, at around 8:00 P.M., Booth presided over a meeting of some of the conspirators he had recruited over the previous months to strike against President Lincoln.†   (source)
  • All this was being presided over by a lovely old woman with pure white hair that had been rolled into a bun at the nape of her neck.†   (source)
  • They also built a wooden dais for a woodwind band whose program was limited to contradances and national waltzes, and for a string quartet from the School of Fine Arts, which was señora de Olivella's surprise for her husband's venerable teacher, who would preside over the luncheon.†   (source)
  • Horst presided at the head of the table.†   (source)
  • The hostess presiding over the Banquet brings Lea a small silver box; the same thing happens to Joseph Peterson on the screen.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday afternoon, Neal Beidleman presided over a memorial service at the Mountain Madness encampment.†   (source)
  • At the entrance to Mudhole was a tiny wooden church presided over by the Reverend "Little" Richard.†   (source)
  • There were no bars or restaurants at the airport—just a stand with prepackaged sandwiches, presided over by a man with sect marks on his face.†   (source)
  • It should, in fact, be cold and hard as it presides over the silence of midnight.†   (source)
  • Catherine has presided over more than twenty-five thousand fistula surgeries and has trained countless doctors in the specialty.†   (source)
  • How unjust it was that Thomas Stone's reward for his failings, for his selfishness, should be to preside in that chair and command the respect, the awe, and the admiration of the likes of Constance and others in this room.†   (source)
  • Down by the depot, the postmistress, a gaunt woman who wears a rawhide jacket and denims and cowboy boots, presides over a falling-apart post office.†   (source)
  • I presided over a funeral today.†   (source)
  • Clara made breakfast as silently as she had presided over supper.†   (source)
  • Excusing himself from the group presided over by his wife, he made his way to the group presided over by his daughter.†   (source)
  • The king presided, solemn and irritable.†   (source)
  • Reverend Howard Thomas was the presiding elder over a district in Arkansas, that included Stamps.†   (source)
  • The most important of these was St. Jean Bosco in Port-au-Prince, where the priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide presided.†   (source)
  • The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†   (source)
  • At the funeral for the Clems' daughter, the presiding minister told the congregation that it was okay to be confused.†   (source)
  • While YaYa's appearance was undeniably imposing, Rowan's students had known her only as the gentle black lioness who dozed inside the Warming Lodge and presided over the Sanctuary with grandmotherly benevolence.†   (source)
  • I have a meeting later back in town, but I thought I'd look over the crime scene, introduce myself to the presiding on-site.†   (source)
  • The latest one was a retired judge living in Tumba; he had presided over several cases involving prostitution.†   (source)
  • Lyndon Johnson keeps his mouth shut as often as possible when the president presides over a meeting.†   (source)
  • As mayor almost his only duty was to preside at banquets, given on the Shire-holidays, which occurred at frequent intervals.†   (source)
  • He had no boat crew to command, no income to manage, no trips to plan, not even a dining table to preside over.†   (source)
  • Whenever he looked at the Vice President presiding in his chair, wrote Maclay, "I cannot help thinking of a monkey just put into breeches."†   (source)
  • On July 13,1982, in a court where Gorman presided, and Mastine, Paquette, and Madison were in attendance, Gregory Madison was sentenced.†   (source)
  • Gabrielle returned with Mr. Sanders and Mr. Lehman, whom Luke recognized as the silver-haired gentleman who'd presided over the auction.†   (source)
  • Before being ousted by his cousin Mohammad Daud Khan, Shah had presided, from 1933 to 1973, over Afghanistan's most enduring modern period of peace.†   (source)
  • I'm Death himself, presiding over this butchery.†   (source)
  • And he presides over the American contributions to a dictionary that embraces the most racy and up-to-the-minute expressions, if they have sufficient currency.†   (source)
  • He presides at ball and feast and rides about the city in a palanquin of ivory and gold.†   (source)
  • The presiding judge, the Honorable Smith Thompson, was also a U.S. Supreme Court justice.†   (source)
  • My mother presided over three huts at Qunu which, as I remember, were always filled with the babies and children of my relations.†   (source)
  • He had presided over the burial of many men and women, but this day was worse.†   (source)
  • "I want the newspapers to forget this thing," said the presiding steward.†   (source)
  • Prof presided over first and Adam Selene addressed them by video and encouraged them to do a thorough job—"History is watching you."†   (source)
  • Against the back wall, an ebony statue of Santa Bárbara, the Black Queen, presides.†   (source)
  • Reaching under the abandoned teacher's desk he sat behind as presiding officer, Carter pulled out a small black box.†   (source)
  • Oh, we had a perfect case all right, but the man who presided at the trial was Judge Narragansett, one of those old-fashioned monks of the bench who thinks like a mathematician and never feels the human side of anything.†   (source)
  • If it was up to me, I would elope to Vegas and have a fifty-dollar pirate-themed wedding with Elvis presiding.†   (source)
  • However, there was a hearing in court presided over by Judge E. W. Jayawardene—one of Lalla's favourite bridge partners.†   (source)
  • Danger roamed the steep slopes and loamy valleys, and the magisterial high rock presided over both men and beasts, sharply defining the limits of their ambition, of their lives.†   (source)
  • The criminal court for Washington County is now in session, the Honorable Leonard P. Green presiding.†   (source)
  • In a letter to several governors of the first states, Washington wrote, "I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection."†   (source)
  • Every unbiased observer may think, without being judgmental, that passion, not reason, presided over the Council's decisions.†   (source)
  • It was a pathetic sight, particularly when the sergeant lined up the men after they finished and had them pour their scavengings into his cap, which he in turn presented to the presiding officer-in-charge.†   (source)
  • Chiara presided over the lighting of the candles while Gabriel, playing the role of proud father, recorded the event on his secure mobile phone.†   (source)
  • George Ticknor Curtis, the United States Commissioner, who presided at the hearing, decided that Sims, who was a fugitive slave, must be returned to his owner in Georgia.†   (source)
  • Such a man presided at the examination before plea—a man so pure and good that he canceled out a lot of wickedness with his life.†   (source)
  • Beck's Hardware was still open, and Mr. Beck, looking tired and bewildered, presided over rows of empty shelves.†   (source)
  • As an important military leader who had often presided at military courts, Strelnikov must have heard and read any number of confessions and depositions by condemned men.†   (source)
  • Not one of them knew my name, but all of them had prior knowledge that a white teacher would preside over them for the year.†   (source)
  • Standing near the piano but not near enough to help, she presided but not with her whole heart on guard against disaster; while disaster was what remained on the minds of the little girls.†   (source)
  • Bitterly assailing the collection of measures which formed the "Great Compromise" and scornfully ridiculing its sponsors, he complained when he was constantly called to order by the presiding officer.†   (source)
  • Reuben Atlee had never presided over one, though he would not admit this.†   (source)
    presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
  • All rise,' he bellowed, 'the Honorable Charles Albert presiding.†   (source)
  • Grandmother Adelia's portrait was still presiding.†   (source)
  • A knight whose funeral was presided over by a Pope?†   (source)
  • That's right, George, you boys shall personally preside over the completion of my project.†   (source)
  • The Honorable Judge Ronald Davies presiding.†   (source)
  • A red, tender-mango-shaped secret in a vat Presided over by a Nowl.†   (source)
  • Now it presided over Camp Half-Blood, protecting the valley from intruders.†   (source)
  • Within a few years, he would be presiding over a potassium factory a thousand miles from Moscow.†   (source)
  • She would be presiding over communities where hunting was not only revered but necessary.†   (source)
  • I see you are still presiding over tables at the Boyarsky.†   (source)
  • Presiding: Comrades V. A. Ignatov, M. S. Zakovsky, A. N. Kosarev†   (source)
  • We'd had Elizabeth baptized, and a priest presided over their burials.†   (source)
  • He would leap at the chance to preside over the ceremony if it would help him earn my favor.†   (source)
  • Seven slash marks indicated his years of service—more than any presiding officer, including Reyna.†   (source)
  • Winter moves into it and presides there.†   (source)
  • Then an Iron Sister presided over my divorce.†   (source)
  • In days, I'd be presiding over Shay's funeral.†   (source)
  • People who preside over national affairs must understand and profit by these cycles.†   (source)
  • Women can't testify fully in court, and yet women can be judges presiding over the court.†   (source)
  • His father was presiding as usual the day the Senate confirmed the appointment.†   (source)
  • We suggested that Fikile Barn, a member of the Yu Chi Chan Club, preside over meetings.†   (source)
  • I don't attend hangings, although I've presided over some, of the homegrown sort.†   (source)
  • The presiding judge would be Andrew T. Judson.†   (source)
  • Woodrow Wilson, who presided over the American invasion of Haiti.†   (source)
  • Dr. Moroka, without consulting the executive, agreed to preside over the convention.†   (source)
  • And people presiding in either should have the capacity to improve them.†   (source)
  • He's still the presiding judge, Jake, regardless of where the trial takes place.†   (source)
  • A U.S. magistrate presided and did so with little interest.†   (source)
  • In administrative court, the charge would be read by the presiding magistrate.†   (source)
  • In all the others, a single judge presides without a jury, following either canon or civil law.'†   (source)
  • Zeke had informed me that Bennington would preside at the meeting instead of Piedmont.†   (source)
  • He had been out in the Alisal presiding at the disintegration of old, old lady German.†   (source)
  • You have been presiding over an educational desert.†   (source)
  • Magnolia trees towered and presided over the ceremony.†   (source)
  • So between the ceremonies and events and the reporters documenting my every move as I presided and thanked and kissed Peeta for the audience, I had no privacy at all.†   (source)
  • The revision of the deeds took place at the same time as the summary courtmartial presided over by Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, which ended with the execution of all officers of the regular army who had been taken prisoner by the revolutionaries.†   (source)
  • When Carlo recovered, the bishop arranged for him to live in a small monastery attached to the cathedral over which the bishop presided.†   (source)
  • In the snow, the clock tower of Upper Canada College appears to preside over a preparatory school in a small New England town; when it's not snowing, the cars and buses on the surrounding roads are more numerous, the sounds of traffic are less muted, and the presence of downtown Toronto seems closer.†   (source)
  • This was the lowest court she had ever presided at: a thirteen-year-old lawyer, a court stenographer who records in Polish, and the judge in African robes.†   (source)
  • The tree presided over the woods like a benevolent matriarch, protecting its inhabitants under the shelter of her branches.†   (source)
  • — How many times, when I presided over a funeral, had mourners delivered the usual well-meaning platitudes: "Well, she's in a better place," or "We know he's looking down on us, smiling," or "You'll see him again."†   (source)
  • Unlike Gerald and Lydia, who preside at the center of their dinners, his parents behaved more like caterers in their own home, solicitous and watchful, waiting until most of their guests' plates were stacked by the sink in order finally to help themselves.†   (source)
  • Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?†   (source)
  • One of the women mentioned that the local chapter of the Links, the most prestigious black women's civic and social organization in the United States, had expressed a desire to preside over the Savannah debutante proceedings, as they did in Atlanta and other cities.†   (source)
  • He reminded them that previous tempering of Church law—the Vatican II fiasco—had left a devastating legacy: Church attendance was now lower than ever, donations were drying up, and there were not even enough Catholic priests to preside over their churches.†   (source)
  • That outside these rooms, where I supposedly presided over the education of Madeleine —erratic conversations about killing and vampire nature in which Claudia could have instructed so much more easily than I, if she had ever showed the desire to take the lead-that outside these rooms, where nightly I was reassured with soft kisses and contented looks that the hateful passion which Claudia had shown once and once only would not return that outside these rooms, I would find that I was, according to my own hasty admission, truly changed: the mortal part of me was that part which had loved, I was certain.†   (source)
  • His aunt, Uma Maima, presides in the kitchen all morning, harassing the servants as they squat by the drain scouring the dirty dishes with ash, or pound heaps of spices on slabs that resemble tombstones.†   (source)
  • She rang the buzzer to signify to the court officer that she was ready to start, and waited to hear her cue: 'All rise, the Honorable Alexandra Cormier presiding.'†   (source)
  • Sir Isaac Newton's burial, attended by kings and nobles, was presided over by Alexander Pope, friend and colleague, who gave a stirring eulogy before sprinkling dirt on the tomb.†   (source)
  • But having settled in Italy, he was lured back to Russia by Stalin in '34 and set up in Ryabushinsky's mansion—so that he could preside over the establishment of Socialist Realism as the sole artistic style of the entire Russian people.... "And what has been the fallout of that?"†   (source)
  • The judge presiding was inconsequential to him: someone who would rubber-stamp this process and turn it over to the court where Jordan would have to put on his dog-and-pony show.†   (source)
  • Who is presiding this week?†   (source)
  • She could feel the secretary's eyes on her-clearly the woman wanted to know why Judge Cormier was standing in front of her desk instead of at the courthouse presiding over the arraignment that they were all waiting to hear about.†   (source)
  • "Can you imagine," concluded the Count with a glint in his eye, "if when you sought your wife's hand, you had to issue your proposal with the stamp of a presiding agency, and were then required to take down her response on a little pad of paper in triplicate—so that you could give one copy to her, one to her father, and one to the family priest?"†   (source)
  • So renowned was the experience of dining at the Boyarsky that on any given night one might have to elbow one's way through a crowd of hopefuls just to catch the eye of Andrey, as he presided over the large black book in which the names of the fortunate were set down; and when beckoned ahead by the maitre d', one could expect to be stopped five times in four languages on the way to one's table in the corner, where one would be served flawlessly by a waiter in a white dinner jacket.†   (source)
  • Zacharie had presided over the school for two more years, then had retreated to a monastery in France.†   (source)
  • He found himself remembering tales he had first heard as a child at Casterly Rock, of mad Lady Lothston who bathed in tubs of blood and presided over feasts of human flesh within these very walls.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had researched Iversen's background and found that he was an exacting judge of long experience who had presided over many high-profile cases.†   (source)
  • The Junior Choir, dressed in white, sang "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Precious Memories," their eyes fastened on the songbooks they did not need, for this was the first time their voices had presided at a real-life event.†   (source)
  • Many years earlier, the priest had presided over the death of another child, Pedro Macias-the firstborn of Umberto and Oralia Macias.†   (source)
  • In the late 1950's, it came to be presided over by a company employee, Reverend Josiah Lanier, who also happened to be a Methodist.†   (source)
  • The district court judge who had presided over Salander's case, and who now had in part to accept the role as the villain in the drama, had retired and was refusing to comment to the press.†   (source)
  • On the podium, a group of twenty or so Americans sitting at a long table were presiding over the proceedings.†   (source)
  • Oh, I see nothing wrong-except that last New Year's Eve I was in El Paso, Texas, presiding at the opening of the San Sebastian Line of Taggart Transcontinental, as you should remember, even if you didn't choose to be present on the occasion.†   (source)
  • And yet this was at least a partially inaccurate impression, for now and again the prisoner glimpsed him as he paused to talk to other men, joke with them and laugh, and then he seemed carefree, jovial, generous: "The kind of person who might see the human side"—an important attribute, for the man was Roland H. Tate, Judge of the 32nd Judicial District, the jurist who would preside at the trial of the State of Kansas versus Smith and Hickock.†   (source)
  • There were two criminal court judges that presided over the four-county circuit where I did most of my work.†   (source)
  • But when the frail, wizened lama slated to preside over the puja had been unable to make the trip from his distant village on the appointed day, Ang Tshering declared that it would be O.K. for us to climb through the Icefall after all, because Sagarmatha understood that we intended to perform the puja very soon thereafter.†   (source)
  • Wyoh helped Prof, helped Stu, had her own organizations, I made trips out to Mare Undarum—and had little time to preside over Congress; task fell on senior committee chairman, Wolf Korsakov ....who was busier than any of us; LuNoHoCo was running everything Authority used to run and many new things as well.†   (source)
  • Who's presiding?†   (source)
  • All day my Uncle Ned, who is heading a commission on race-riots (and so has been given this building to live in while in Jaffna), is at work, and all day my Aunt Phyllis presides over the history of good and bad Ondaatjes and the people they came in contact with.†   (source)
  • Though there's a group for every ethnicity-sometimes loosely presided over by a professor who teaches in that cultural discipline— Cedric has noticed that the black students have a special place in the firmament.†   (source)
  • The feast continued late into the night, presided over by the grinning skull on its pillar of black marble.†   (source)
  • However, as today is mine day to preside over this, our congregation, I propose that we delay our most serious debates for the moment, and if you are agreeable, allow me to pose a few questions to the meet.†   (source)
  • Our presiding elder had heard the story of Reverend Taylor and Sister Monroe, but I was sure he didn't know her by sight.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes down the road, Mortenson saw the spitting image of Yugu's new mosque presiding over the impoverished village of Xurd.†   (source)
  • Presiding over all of this is a mistress of ceremonies known as Tante Sue, a tiny dynamo of a woman who boasts seven great-grandchildren.†   (source)
  • Now, seeing his father presiding in the kitchen, getting supper, for crying out loud—such a far cry from being a doctor—and his wife dead and his only son full of doubts about him, his life so pale and gray, Jerry was plunged into sadness.†   (source)
  • Catherine presides over the hospital, living in a cozy house in the center of the compound, and she plans to be buried in Addis Ababa alongside her husband.†   (source)
  • I wasn't officiating—it was my day off, so Father Walter was presiding, along with a deacon named Paul O'Hurley.†   (source)
  • The judge's bench had been removed from the old Philadelphia courtroom for this occasion, and replaced by a table on a wooden platform; it gave the room an atmosphere suggesting the kind of meeting where a presiding body puts something over on a mentally retarded membership.†   (source)
  • "Yes, it's a disgrace," agrees the caustic, some-what original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this "But the stamps work, don't they?†   (source)
  • Instead, among other things, he arranged a meeting at the White House, his friend Hillary Clinton presiding.†   (source)
  • He protested age and health ....then said would serve if could have certain things to help him; too old and too exhausted from trip Earthside to have responsibility of presiding—except on occasions of state—so he wanted Congress to elect a Speaker and Speaker Pro Tem....and besides that, he felt that Congress should augment its numbers by not more than ten percent by itself electing members-at-large so that Prime Minister, whoever he might be, could opt cabinet members or ministers of state who might not now be members of Congress—especially ministers-without-portfolio to take load off his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Jon Connington presided from the Griffin's Seat, sharing the high table with Homeless Harry Strickland, Black Balaq, Franklyn Flowers, and the three young griffins they had taken captive.†   (source)
  • By August, with guests due to arrive for the school-opening ceremony, Hawa presided glowingly over the new Korphe Women's Vocational Center.†   (source)
  • When the Vice President returned to Washington to preside over the Senate, he was looked upon by many, including young Senator Adams, as no better than a murderer.†   (source)
  • He also established New York's first mercantile agency and presided over it until just before his death at the age of eighty-five in 1873.†   (source)
  • Having acknowledged the concern he felt over his ability to sit silentlyby during the debate and preside only, he said it would be his "constant endeavor" to behave toward all members with the consideration and decorum befitting their station and character.†   (source)
  • The presiding judge upheld the M'Naghten Rule, and the jury gave the state the death penalty it demanded.†   (source)
  • UNFPA did make the disgraceful mistake in 1983 of awarding its Population Award gold medal to Qian Xinzhong, the head of the Chinese family planning program, who was then presiding over a brutal family planning crackdown involving forced abortions.†   (source)
  • Hiatt presided, tall and thin, uttering the opening remarks at his usual deliberate pace, as if his tongue weighed every word.†   (source)
  • In fact, the only justices on the court who were strong anti-slavery advocates were Smith Thompson of New York, who had presided over the original circuit court trial and the district court appeal, and Joseph Story of Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Such worries weighed heavily through the journey to New York, for all the "parade and show" in his honor, and in advance of his first appearance in the Senate, he prepared a brief speech in which, with marked understatement and honesty, he identified the problem: "Not wholly without experience in public assemblies, I have been more accustomed to take a share in their debates than to preside in their deliberations."†   (source)
  • My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats andcalves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals.†   (source)
  • Responding to questions relevant to his supposed intimacy with Mr. Clutter, the judge said, "He [Clutter] was once a litigant in this court, a case over which I presided, a damage action involving an airplane falling on his property; he was suing for damages to-I believe some fruit trees.†   (source)
  • For years Ophelia had served as the presiding spirit at headquarters, the person everyone could count on to be fair and sympathetic and, usually, temperate.†   (source)
  • Since we are headed for a trial, I'll tell ya'll right now that I will not preside over one with a dozen lawyers.†   (source)
  • But they would be overbalanced by the important disadvantage caused by having the same judges preside in the double prosecution of the accused.†   (source)
  • Jim Kim and an old friend from Duke were Farmer's best men; Père Lafontant and three Catholic priests presided; about four thousand people came, including all of Cange.†   (source)
  • If the same judges preside in both trials, the loss of life and property would often be virtually included with this punishment.†   (source)
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