assizes
Example Sentences
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Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never listen to speeches except when they put me on a jury at assizes.
From Second String by Hope, Anthony
Examinations would be conducted, assizes would be held, and for all I knew, Mr. Herbert might be condemned and hanged while we were yet marching and countermarching upon the borders.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
This was quite in private conversation, and only came to light after the business of the assizes was over.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
