Of course I am much too good-natured a friend of both parties not to tell Gray of Goldmore's opinion in him, and the nabob's astonishment at the of the briefless barrister having any dinner at all.
You little know, you gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease, what hardships briefless barristers endure.
Shirker, who has about as much warmth as an eel, made up to Polly years and years ago, and was no bad match for a briefless barrister, as he was then.
Nowadays briefless barristers utilize their legal knowledge as financiers and company promoters; before those two honest pursuits had been invented they had to turn their attention to other specs.
Mr. Saltram was a barrister, almost a briefless one at present, for his habits were desultory, not to say idle, and he had not taken very kindly to the slow drudgery of the Bar.
I don't know how many generations of brieflessbarristers these chairs and tables have served.
Not as the briefless barrister--the man without means or position!
No man hates the profession that brings him fame and money; but the doctor without patients, the briefless barrister, can hardly love law or medicine.
Or had he possessed a little more personal vanity, he might have suspected the truth; for certainly there was not a handsomer man in the whole county than was this briefless young lawyer with the napless hat and thread-bare coat.
A briefless young lawyer, with a long list of impoverished brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins!
But the briefless young lawyer in the napless hat and thread-bare coat never accepted one of these invitations, for the very simple reason that he had no evening dress in which to appear.
And the reason of all this was, that Miss Berners of Black Hall loved a poor, briefless young lawyer, who had nothing but his handsome person, his brilliant mind, and his noble heart to recommend him.
Things had altered since that time: the briefless barrister was still briefless, but he now despised briefs: could he have been sure of a judge's seat, he would hardly have left his present career.
Marstern's father was wealthy, and all knew that he could afford to be brieflessfor a time.
Although as yet a briefless young lawyer, he had a case in hand which absorbed many of his thoughts--the conflicting claims of two young women in his native village on the Hudson.
He was a briefless barrister of the Inner Temple, and resided with his father till the period of his death.
I mean that as a briefless barrister I have ample time at my command, and I shall only be too happy to place it and myself at your service.
Old stagers' of the Home and Western Circuits, can recall how the juniors of their briefless and bagless days used to entertain the natives of Guildford and Exeter with Shakspearian performances.
What, I asked in my own mind, can cause this obsequiousness on the part of Miss Toady; has Briefless got a county court, or has his wife had a fortune left her?
And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week.
After all, few would credit the celebrated, beautiful actress with anything beyond a passing fancy for the youthful, briefless barrister.
Well, other brieflessbarristers peg away at journalism, and political agency work, and coaching, and studying.
Mrs. Miller was congratulating herself upon the success of her tactics; she flattered herself that her daughter was completely getting over that unlucky fancy for the penniless and briefless barrister.
I'm what is commonly called a briefless barrister.
Afraid of too much work, when but for that dog he was briefless still!
They have been trained perhaps for the bar, but wanted assiduity to master the dry details of the law, and patience to sustain them throughout a long round of briefless circuits.
You don't remember me, Lady Mary," said theBriefless one.
On the following Monday, the Briefless one announced to the Club that he had received an invitation to dine at the Loveredges' on the following Wednesday.
But she thought Somerville the Briefless even nicer, and later, under cross-examination, when Somerville was no longer briefless, told Somerville so himself.
Jack Herring and Somerville the Briefless went that night with Johnny and his sister to the theatre--and on other nights.
Somerville the Briefless called at the offices of Good Humour, in Crane Court, the following morning, and he also borrowed Miss Ramsbotham's Debrett.
The Briefless one, entering the smoking-room, lifted a chair and let it fall again with a crash, and sitting down upon it, crossed his legs and rang the bell.
The Briefless one, muttering that the worst of mixing with journalists was that if you did not watch yourself, you fell into their ways, drank his whisky in silence.
On Tuesday, theBriefless one entered the Club with a slow and stately step.
I think I can understand it," said the Briefless one.
Could it be the obscure, briefless lawyer in Gray's Inn (that very morning the object of his young pity) who was thus lifted into fame?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briefless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
