leaders

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M. Planche follows this typical use of the word in Virgil, in Ovid, and in Racine, the last of whom says in the Pleaders: "Natheless, gentlemen, The anchor of your goodness us assures."

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

Lawyers' Hall:" "Farewell, Toronto, of great glory,  Of valour, too, in modern story;  Farewell to Courts, to Lawyers' Hall,  The Justice seats, both great and small:  Farewell Attorneys, Special Pleaders,  Equity Draftsmen, and their Readers.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

Pleaders, too, were equally absent; each party—plaintiff and defendant—was expected to plead his own case.

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne

Pleaders and advocates are sometimes driven into it, because to use vigorous, clean, crisp English in addressing an ordinary jury or committee is like flourishing a sword in a drawing-room: it will lose the case. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Under the old régime, as may be seen in Racine’s comedy of The Pleaders, the judges were not always free from such suspicion.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul