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On a cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death.
From Time Magazine Archive
“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
The old justiciar Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, now on his death-bed, had also refused to pronounce sentence on the defaulters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
