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In the preparation of briefs and in oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Fitch was the superior.

Diamonds had become more to him than either briefs or pleadings.

At Court he got no briefs, but his fellowship enabled him to live by practising economy.

"It is as much as saying, he 'll enter into recognizances for an indefinite series of five-hundred-pound briefs," added O'Reilly.

Briefs gave him his dinner, the drama gave him his supper; his supper got to be the more substantial of the two.

She became the light of her father's house, and used even to copy out his briefs, at which task I often found her of an evening.

Briefs poured in upon Rupert next day, and he was engaged for all the big Chancery cases.

HAPPY DAYSALAN ALEXANDER MILNE

As the weeks passed by, clients came to me as of old, and I found myself having to refuse briefs.

I have been poring over your last two or three letters, and they read like a set of briefs for a debate.

His briefs embraced every variety of pleading, civil and criminal.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985