assizes

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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

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

Till the spring assizes at E——, where he was to be tried, it furnished the staple of conversation, and every fresh bit of evidence, for or against him, was eagerly repeated and canvassed.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Crowe, Catherine