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  • Seiler had learned from the bailiffs, who were notorious for prying and telling tales, that the jurors were evenly split.†   (source)
  • He worked past her and nodded at the bailiff, Ed Soames, then picked out a document from the evidence table and made his way back to the witness stand.†   (source)
  • At ten a.m., Martin Stanley, the bailiff, stood up and announced that the court was in session, Judge Lyle Ottarson presiding.†   (source)
  • Then Bailiff Kingsmill in pursuit, A Charter he did take, Which sailed as fast as it could go To Lewiston, across the Lake.†   (source)
  • We were squeezed through the crowd and ushered to one of the areas in front, near the bailiff.†   (source)
  • Just as the bailiff came into the hall to call them to the courtroom, Mr. Washington turned the corner and strode toward them, smiling.†   (source)
  • The bailiff asked her to state her name, and over and over again she said it was Annie Wilkes, but she said no more; she sat there with her fibrous solid ominous body displacing air and said her name over and over again but no more than that.†   (source)
  • Plus the seats are cramped, and if you doze off the bailiff gets after you.†   (source)
  • ONE AFTERNOON, in my ninth month at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, as we were on our way to the operating room, a bailiff served Deepak Jesudass with papers.†   (source)
  • Or send the bailiffs round.†   (source)
  • The next page was a letter from Father to his bailiff.†   (source)
  • A subdued laughter went around the courtroom but the judge wasnt laughing nor the bailiff.†   (source)
  • As I crossed the floor I finally had a clear view of everything-the crowd, the judge, the prosecutors and defense attorneys-and I made a point of focusing only on the bailiff, who was waiting for me by the witness stand.†   (source)
  • She has experience at it, at standing before judges and bailiffs, pleading.†   (source)
  • The bailiff beside me became more and more alert.†   (source)
  • True, some slaveowners and their overseers were brutal and cruel, but the same was true of some Westerosi lords and their stewards and bailiffs.†   (source)
  • In New York City it's standard procedure: Leave your money with the bailiff, enough for everyone.†   (source)
  • The judge ignored Ekström and gestured to the bailiff to open the door to admit Blomkvist and Edklinth.†   (source)
  • Oh, it's cost him plenty-but he's bought the judge, the clerks, the bailiffs, their backers, their backers1 backers, a few legislators, half a dozen administrators-he's bought the whole legal process, like a private thoroughfare, and there's no single crossroad left for me to squeeze through to stop it!†   (source)
  • They were introduced to Fred the bailiff, who had popped out ofsome room or other when they had come in.†   (source)
  • MR. MEEKER, the bailiff, enters.†   (source)
  • TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED FROM THE BAILIFF.†   (source)
  • Around noon Seiler noticed that the bailiffs had suddenly stopped talking to him.†   (source)
  • 'You're excused,' the judge said, and the bailiffs hefted Peter out of his seat again.†   (source)
  • The bailiffs looked at each other, and then at Jordan.†   (source)
  • Another man bolted for the door and had to be restrained by the bailiffs.†   (source)
  • He stood in the hallway and watched the bailiffs lead Peter away.†   (source)
  • Two bailiffs approached Williams and escorted him to a small door at the end of the jury box.†   (source)
  • Besides the two bailiffs, she and I were the only people in the courtroom.†   (source)
  • After the jury was out of sight, the bailiffs escorted Angel back to the holding cell.†   (source)
  • There was no way to go back inside where there were police officers and bailiffs with guns.†   (source)
  • Within minutes, the bailiffs let it be known that the lone holdout was a woman named Cecilia Tyo, a feisty divorcee in her late fifties.†   (source)
  • She was a judge, dammit; she should have been allowed to go there, but two bailiffs were firmly holding her back.†   (source)
  • Then he walks across the floor and is escorted by the bailiffs through the door that leads to the tunnel that will take him to jail.†   (source)
  • 'Bailiffs,' Alex murmured, and the two beefy courtroom attendants grabbed the woman by the arms to escort her out of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • He grabbed his briefcase and hurried out the back door, the one through which the bailiffs were taking Peter.†   (source)
  • No. He left his cousin Ser Manfrey as castellan, old blind Ricasso as seneschal, his bailiffs to collect duties and taxes for his treasurer Alyse Ladybright to count, his shariffs to police the shadow city, his justiciars to sit in judgment, and Maester Myles to deal with any letters not requiring the prince's own attention.†   (source)
  • Or sent the bailiffs round.†   (source)
  • At precisely 1:30, Judge Green walked back into the courtroom and ordered the bailiffs to bring the jury in.†   (source)
  • She even hugged one of the bailiffs.†   (source)
  • I'll come to the jail to see you in a couple of days" The bailiffs took her away, and I walked back into the courtroom.†   (source)
  • The bailiffs were Darren and David Bowers, a pair of cheerful, inseparable identical twins in their late fifties.†   (source)
  • I told Randall I'd file the appeal immediately and watched the bailiffs lead him back toward his isolation cell.†   (source)
  • The judge called our case around 10:00 a.m. The bailiffs brought Randall to the podium, and Glass glared down at him from the bench.†   (source)
  • I was sitting with Thomas Walker II, an assistant district attorney named Fred Julian, and a couple bailiffs in the judge's office in Mountain City, getting ready to go to trial with Maynard Bush.†   (source)
  • The bailiff held the door open for Art Moran and stood aside to let him pass.†   (source)
  • Disorder, chaos, the Bailiff's men coming for the furniture in his own chambers, no doubt.†   (source)
  • The bailiff called the court to order, and the jury filed in.†   (source)
  • It was nearly lunchtime when the bailiff called out, "Order in the court!†   (source)
  • Diana Leven surveyed the packed gallery, then asked a bailiff to turn off the lights.†   (source)
  • He scrawled something on a piece of paper, and the bailiff walked it up to the bench.†   (source)
  • Is that what it is about—the bailiff serving you papers?†   (source)
  • And tell Mandy I'll be back with the bailiff We'll need lunch.†   (source)
  • Fred the bailiff came in and announced, "All rise.†   (source)
  • The bailiff went to hand me a glass of water.†   (source)
  • Just as Greenleaf sat down, a bailiff slipped a note to me.†   (source)
  • Mastine, the judge, the bailiff beside me.†   (source)
  • The bailiff offered me stale coffee in a styrofoam cup.†   (source)
  • "You're doing fine; breathe," this steely bailiff said.†   (source)
  • The male bailiff who had led me in came toward the center of the room and waited for me.†   (source)
  • The bailiff held a Bible in front of me.†   (source)
  • A bailiff stood in the open doorway and made eye contact with Murphy.†   (source)
  • The door opened and a male bailiff poked his head in.†   (source)
  • The professor will slip into one of the seats in the back near the bailiff.†   (source)
  • A female bailiff, middle-aged and wearing wire-framed glasses, assisted me up onto the stand.†   (source)
  • A while later, a bailiff opened the door of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • The bailiff was as friendly as she could be.†   (source)
  • "No," the bailiff said, "quiet, mostly."†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," I said to the bailiff, crying more now.†   (source)
  • He called Sarah's case twenty minutes after I sat down, and a bailiff brought her in.†   (source)
  • I now handed them to the bailiff, who in turn handed them to Judge Green.†   (source)
  • The bailiff announced the entrance of Judge Len Green.†   (source)
  • I went back to the jury room and asked the bailiff to give Angel and me some privacy.†   (source)
  • JUDGE (Shouting) I shall ask the bailiff to clear the court, unless there is order here.†   (source)
  • I consented to go; we arrived at Toronto, at the City Hotel, about 5 o'clock; awoke the people; had breakfast there; I unlocked Nancy's box and put some of her things on, and we left by the boat at 8 o'clock, and arrived at Lewiston, about 3 o'clock; went to the tavern; in the evening we had supper at the public table, and I went to bed in one room and McDermott in another; before I went to bed, I told McDermott I would stop at Lewiston, and I would not go any further; he said he would make me go with him, and about 5 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kingsmill, the High Bailiff, came and arrested us, and brought us back to Toronto.†   (source)
  • The bailiff knocked at the door to the judge's chambers, then opened it and said that the sheriff was present on business he wished to keep private.†   (source)
  • "I'm not that way," said the bailiff.†   (source)
  • The bailiff wore his coat and held his lunchbox in his hand; he'd been on his way out, he explained; the judge was still working at his desk.†   (source)
  • 18 It had been the judge's bailiff, Ed Soames, who'd answered the door when Art Moran knocked at five after five on the evening of the sixteenth and asked to see Lew Fielding.†   (source)
  • The bailiff, Ed Soames, at the request of Judge Fielding, had given a good head of steam to the sluggish radiators, which now and again sighed in the four corners of the room.†   (source)
  • From the corner of her eye, Alex saw a bailiff enter the courtroom and whisper to the clerk, who looked at Alex and nodded.†   (source)
  • 'We'll take a fifteen-minute recess,' he ordered, and as another bailiff hauled Peter through a rear door, the judge turned to Josie.†   (source)
  • She slipped past the bailiff who was babysitting them, heading toward the window seat where she'd been curled before, reading.†   (source)
  • A bailiff touched her shoulder.†   (source)
  • She walked in with the bailiff, but instead of marching toward the tiny wooden balcony where the witness was to sit, her body moved of its own accord in the other direction.†   (source)
  • Judge Wagner summoned a bailiff.†   (source)
  • A bailiff came out to them.†   (source)
  • The bailiff stood.†   (source)
  • My father got himself good and hanged by Lord Piper's bailiff, my brother Wat got sent to the Wall, and the Lannisters killed my other brothers.†   (source)
  • The first time we filed out of our holding pen—a small room in the superior courthouse that would begin to feel as familiar as my apartment—I thought maybe some bailiff had let us into the wrong courtroom.†   (source)
  • Judge Iversen gestured to the bailiff, who admitted Inspector Modig and a woman Prosecutor Ekström did not immediately recognize.†   (source)
  • Fred the bailiff appeared and said his official words, and they all rose, and the Court of the Honorable Henry J. Atkins was now in session.†   (source)
  • I reached into my pocket, retrieved the note the bailiff had passed me just before I began my closing, and handed it to Michael.†   (source)
  • "He's a good judge," the bailiff said.†   (source)
  • The bailiff walked back toward court.†   (source)
  • My bailiff stubbed out her cigarette.†   (source)
  • I was assigned to the bailiff.†   (source)
  • "How is she, bailiff?" he asked.†   (source)
  • The bailiff came to get me.†   (source)
  • The bailiff looked at me.†   (source)
  • He insisted that everything be passed forward through the bailiff, as though he was repulsed by the idea of having to deal directly with a lowly lawyer.†   (source)
  • MEEKER starts out, then pauses) Long as I've been bailiff here, we've never had nothin' but drunks, vagrants, couple of chicken thieves.†   (source)
  • I see her going to the town with her basket; and Arthur Davies goes with her; I see her knitting on the hall step while we play cricket; I see her stretching her arms out to Mrs Williams when the bailiffs took possession of their house and the Captain stood at the window bawling and shying jugs, basins, chamber pots onto the gravel — "Come to us, Mrs Williams"; "No, Mrs Stephen," sobbed Mrs Williams, "I will not leave my husband."†   (source)
  • I expect to find the bailiffs in the hall when I go home.†   (source)
  • Now that Oak had turned himself into a shepherd, it seemed that bailiffs were most in demand.†   (source)
  • But it was the tone common to all the bailiffs he had ever had.†   (source)
  • "And against whom do you thus rebel?" inquired the king; "against your bailiffs?†   (source)
  • here they have only got as far as the bailiffs.†   (source)
  • We were dressed and barbered alike, and could pass for small farmers, or farm bailiffs, or shepherds, or carters; yes, or for village artisans, if we chose, our costume being in effect universal among the poor, because of its strength and cheapness.†   (source)
  • And the audience—seeing to its astonishment, Clyde, accompanied by Reuben Jephson, making his way forward—straining and whispering in spite of all the gruff commands of the judge and the bailiffs.†   (source)
  • And Clyde, in his own overwrought condition, hearing her cry and seeing her fall, jumping up—the restraining hand of Jephson instantly upon him, while bailiffs and others assisted her and Titus who was beside her from the courtroom.†   (source)
  • There, disguised under other names, and concealed under other costumes, are police agents, magistrates, attorneys-general, and bailiffs.†   (source)
  • The individual members of this class, however, are being constantly hurled down into the proletariat by the action of competition, and, as modern industry develops, they even see the moment approaching when they will completely disappear as an independent section of modern society, to be replaced, in manufactures, agriculture and commerce, by overlookers, bailiffs and shopmen.†   (source)
  • The bailiffs and brokers seized upon poor Raggles in Curzon Street, and the late fair tenant of that poor little mansion was in the meanwhile—where?†   (source)
  • "Athos, then, went to pay a visit to one of his friends absent at the time," continued Treville, "to a young Bearnais, a cadet in his Majesty's Guards, the company of Monsieur Dessessart, but scarcely had he arrived at his friend's and taken up a book, while waiting his return, when a mixed crowd of bailiffs and soldiers came and laid siege to the house, broke open several doors—" The cardinal made the king a sign, which signified, "That was on account of the affair about which I spoke to you."†   (source)
  • He was in the hands of the bailiffs.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to be waited on by bailiffs in livery," she said; "you will never get back though most probably—at least not you and your diamonds together.†   (source)
  • President of Flanders; Master Jehan Coleghens, burgomaster of the city of Antwerp; Master George de la Moere, first alderman of the kuere of the city of Ghent; Master Gheldolf van der Hage, first alderman of the ~parchous~ of the said town; and the Sieur de Bierbecque, and Jehan Pinnock, and Jehan Dymaerzelle, etc., etc., etc.; bailiffs, aldermen, burgomasters; burgomasters, aldermen, bailiffs—all stiff, affectedly grave, formal, dressed out in velvet and damask, hooded with caps of black velvet, with great tufts of Cyprus gold thread; good Flemish heads, after all, severe and worthy faces, of the family which Rembrandt makes to stand out so strong and grave from the blac†   (source)
  • The bailiffs were put upon me; I was taken as I was going out of his house; when I wrote to her for money, she said she was ill in bed and put me off to another day.†   (source)
  • One of Lady Gaunt's carriages went to Hill Street for her Ladyship's mother, all whose equipages were in the hands of the bailiffs, whose very jewels and wardrobe, it was said, had been seized by those inexorable Israelites.†   (source)
  • For her mother being dead, her father, finding himself not likely to recover, after his third attack of delirium tremens, wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse.†   (source)
  • During the progress of this memorable holiday, little Rawdon, if he had got no special liking for his uncle, always awful and cold and locked up in his study, plunged in justice-business and surrounded by bailiffs and farmers—has gained the good graces of his married and maiden aunts, of the two little folks of the Hall, and of Jim of the Rectory, whom Sir Pitt is encouraging to pay his addresses to one of the young ladies, with an understanding doubtless that he shall be presented to the living when it shall be vacated by his fox-hunting old sire.†   (source)
  • His days were passed in conducting his own correspondence; the lawyers and farm-bailiffs who had to do business with him could not reach him but through the Ribbons, who received them at the door of the housekeeper's room, which commanded the back entrance by which they were admitted; and so the Baronet's daily perplexities increased, and his embarrassments multiplied round him.†   (source)
  • They sent word by the bailiff to Mr. Prescott they wanted to testify in the case.†   (source)
  • A bailiff stepped to Roark's side to escort him out Roark stood by the defense table.†   (source)
  • But a job in 1915 doesn't pay off the bailiff in 1914.†   (source)
  • shield both in themselves and in the progeny the brittle bones and tired flesh of an old man against the day when the Creditor would run him to earth for the last time and he couldn't get away: and so sure enough the daughter fell in love, the son the agent for the providing of that living bulwark between him (the demon) and the Creditor's bailiff hand until the son should marry and thus insure him doubled and compounded—and then the demon must turn square around and run not only the fiance out of the house and not only the son out of the house but so corrupt seduce and mesmerise the son that he (the son) should do the office of the outraged father's pistol-hand when fornication threatened†   (source)
  • As McEachern watched him from the window, he felt something of that pure and impersonal outrage which a judge must feel were he to see a man on trial for his life lean and spit on the bailiff's sleeve.†   (source)
  • The bailiff went up and the sheriff and the judge, and the police chief, and the lawyers all came together to listen for a few minutes, then they parted again and the sheriff took the stand and told how Janie had come to his house with the doctor and how he found things when he drove out to hers.†   (source)
  • He turned and followed the bailiff.†   (source)
  • They were brought up together with the children of his German bailiff.†   (source)
  • 'Where does he live?' the bailiff from the farm asked, when Jim had been lifted on to a hurdle.†   (source)
  • My bailiff tells me you are quite the proper person.†   (source)
  • If you meet with any difficulties and want help here, don't go to the bailiff, come to me.†   (source)
  • I am only a farm bailiff, it is true; but I am not poor, nevertheless.†   (source)
  • 'Then we're to take him up to Three Chimneys?' said the bailiff.†   (source)
  • 'Seems to me the Doctor ought to have a look in first,' said the bailiff.†   (source)
  • 'All right, said the bailiff, 'you ought to know what your Ma 'ud like.†   (source)
  • Did you ever see a dun, my dear; or a bailiff and his man?†   (source)
  • Neither judge nor bailiff is known there.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes!" said I. "Coavinses has been arrested by the Great Bailiff," said Mr. Skimpole.†   (source)
  • And a gentleman to hobnob with a bailiff!†   (source)
  • The bailiff's four sergeants were still there, stiff, motionless, as painted statues.†   (source)
  • Do you know that I should have had a bailiff and a protest after me?†   (source)
  • Now I have a bailiff, a townsman; he seems a practical fellow.†   (source)
  • "Do just as you like, only let it be as soon as possible," he said, and went to the bailiff.†   (source)
  • "I shall have no bailiff; I shall continue to be my own manager," she said decisively.†   (source)
  • Unless, indeed, you'll promise to have an understanding man as bailiff, or manager, or something.†   (source)
  • 'And now I fancy, brother, it's time for us to be going to have a talk with the bailiff.'†   (source)
  • "It's not those peasants but this bailiff!" said Levin, getting angry.†   (source)
  • I'll come and look at her," he said to the bailiff.†   (source)
  • "Then will you tell him to speak to the bailiff," said Bathsheba.†   (source)
  • His answer always was,— "I am looking for a place myself—a bailiff's.†   (source)
  • What would you have with those peasants!" said the bailiff, with a wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • I heard some of them shouting: 'Down with the bailiff of the palace!'†   (source)
  • The bailiff smiled and said: "Yes, sir."†   (source)
  • Were you not going to outrageously attack and pillage your lord, the bailiff of the palace?†   (source)
  • Levin sent for his bailiff, but immediately went off himself to look for him.†   (source)
  • What is the bailiff's feudal jurisdiction?†   (source)
  • "Can these rascals continue their farce?" asked the bailiff.†   (source)
  • You must settle with him, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," said the bailiff.†   (source)
  • He was annoyed, and reprimanded the bailiff.†   (source)
  • To think that they had been on the point of hanging the bailiff's sergeant!†   (source)
  • "Silence among the louts at the end of the hail!" said the bailiff sharply.†   (source)
  • "If we can manage it, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," said the bailiff.†   (source)
  • It was a lady whom he let in at the bailiff's door.†   (source)
  • They have been complaining this long while, of the bailiff, whose vassals they are.†   (source)
  • The bailiff said that he had said so a long while ago, but no heed had been paid him.†   (source)
  • And what complaints have they against the bailiff?†   (source)
  • He continued dreamily, and as though speaking to himself,— "Very fine, monsieur the bailiff!†   (source)
  • Satisfy the populace; I undertake to appease the bailiff, who will appease monsieur the cardinal.†   (source)
  • And I thought that they were acting against the bailiff!†   (source)
  • monsieur the bailiff was king of all that.†   (source)
  • And which is moving you say, against monsieur the bailiff of the Palais-de-Justice?†   (source)
  • I tell the bailiff.†   (source)
  • Oh, I did talk a lot of nonsense once, but there's nothing like a bailiff in the house to drive it out of you.†   (source)
  • She's the widow of a bailiff.†   (source)
  • The blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were standing in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument.†   (source)
  • He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache white eyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes, which were veined and raw; and all day long he sat in the bailiff's room, waiting to be put on a job.†   (source)
  • Totski, who was living abroad at this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.†   (source)
  • The smith and the bailiff started to see about the practicability of the suggested shelter, and the boy and the schoolmaster were left standing alone.†   (source)
  • It was more, far more; a country-house built for enjoyment pure and simple, with not an acre of troublesome land attached to it beyond what was required for residential purposes, and for a little fancy farm kept in hand by the owner, and tended by a bailiff.†   (source)
  • He's a farmer—pretty fairly well-to-do farmer —and I'm his bailiff; but—the imagination of that man!†   (source)
  • Dowley warmed to his work, snuffed an advantage in the air, and began to put questions which he considered pretty awkward ones for me, and they did have something of that look: "In your country, brother, what is the wage of a master bailiff, master hind, carter, shepherd, swineherd?"†   (source)
  • How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!†   (source)
  • Unseen by the spy, Mr. Cruncher stood at his side, and touched him on the shoulder like a ghostly bailiff.†   (source)
  • He examined the bailiff's accounts of the village in Ryazan which belonged to his wife's nephew, wrote two business letters, and walked over to the granaries, cattle yards and stables before dinner.†   (source)
  • He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given the scene-painter his dismissal long enough to justify the pleasing belief of his being then at least as far off as Northampton.†   (source)
  • He had come to St Petersburg with the view of obtaining some position corresponding to his rank, if possible that of vice-governor of a province; but he was prepared to be content with that of a bailiff in some department or other.†   (source)
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