A bench of three or more of them constituted the County Court, a body having a wide civil and criminal jurisdiction of its own, and concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit Court over a still larger field.
From one end of the State to the other, every county seat became a drill field.
This County Court sat monthly, and in addition to its judicial functions was charged with considerable legislative duties for the county, under a system which gave large recognition to the principle of local self-government.
And hence some treason to this gentle dame In his foul heart, the wicked County brewed; Or, as the first occasion served, would stray Out of the road, and leave her by the way.
He, when he sees them fly on either hand, Would fly as well from that dread cavalier; Makes for the gate, and would the drawbridge lift, But the pursuing county is too swift.
Here too Rogero comes; where getting sight Of his lost love, the County strives in fray With fierce Ferrau, and, after slaughter fell Amid the paynim host, finds Isabel.
She, conversant with Brava's cavalier, The miserable county knew aright; And mighty marvel in that dame it raised To see him rove, a naked man and crazed.
The courser scowered about the powdery shore, Showing how good his speed in the career: The County by that stroke astounded sore, Has not the power the frightened horse to steer.
CII Come to himself, the County turns his eye And sees his Brandimart upon the plain, And in such act Gradasso standing by As clearly shows by whom the knight was slain.
The county hastes in his impatient heat, Eager to reach that isle, the monster's seat.
CVII Here from his horse the sorrowing County lit, And at the entrance of the grot surveyed A cloud of words, which seemed but newly writ, And which the young Medoro's hand had made.
XCII An aged dame was with her, and the pair Wrangled, as oftentimes is women's way; But when the County was descending there, Concluded the dispute and wordy fray.
No doubt he gained the seat for that county by virtue of his position at the Home Office; but the same distinction has also made him one of the best-abused men of his day.
He is in favour of the withdrawal of all State grants for religious purposes, and he is also an advocate for the assimilation of the county and borough franchise.
He was Deputy-Chairman of Quarter Sessions in his native county of Glamorganshire, and he was also Chairman of the Vale of Neath Railway, Captain of the Glamorganshire Rifle Volunteers, and fourth Charity Commissioner of England and Wales.
For a Scotch Member to be also a Cabinet Minister is, at present, a conjunction of exceeding rarity; and no less exceptional is it to find the county of Renfrew returning to the House of Commons one who is not a politician of native growth.
The colossal bones of this cetacean are so plentiful in the interior of Clarke County as to be characteristic of the formation.
In several parts of the county of Antrim, in the north of Ireland, chalk with flints is traversed by basaltic dikes.
I'm driving in to the county fair," explained the farmer.
The sentence, and the manner of its execution, were ordered to be published in the newspapers of the county where the regiment was raised.
Phil, take these papers over to the county attorney's office.
The great witch-finder, Matthew Hopkins, having gone through the county of Suffolk and tested multitudes of poor old women by piercing them with pins and needles, declared that county to be infested with witches.
Thereupon Parliament issued a commission, and sent two eminent Presbyterian divines to accompany it, with the result that in that county alone sixty persons were hanged for witchcraft in a single year.
It was the day they had to go into the county court about the will that was not, when he recollected Delaroo's paper and pulled it out of its envelope.
Frontier settlers in Tryon County were being massacred by Indians.
The interior of Tryon County was said to be dangerous ground.
If we fight England, we got to have the Injuns on our side er else Tryon County won't be no healthy place fer white folks," Solomon wrote.
They are scattered in small colonies, especially in Gomor county and in Transylvania.
The other lowland lakes, as, for instance, the Palics near Szabadka, and the Velencze in the county of Feher, are much smaller.
The course of the Old River Nene is eastward across the county midway between Huntingdon and Peterborough, and about 1(1/2) m.
The county resisted the illegal taxation of Charles I.
All the seventeen courts, including the two full courts, had jurisdiction in trespass covenant and debt of less than forty shillings, and in these civil cases such of the freeholders of the county as were present were judges.
The charter also granted that the above places with the town itself should become the county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
The ancient county system was gradually absorbed by this new governing element.
No woman lodger can vote in any local election, although men lodgers can vote in District and Parish Council and Guardian elections, and in the election of the London County and London Borough Councils.
Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education, Added Member of Education Committee of County Council of West Riding of Yorkshire, &c.
For neither men nor women is there any ownership franchise, lodger franchise, or service franchise for Town Council elections or for County Council elections outside London.
In thecounty of Gloster, justice of peace and coram.
Evelyn tells us that the custom was not altogether extinct in his time, near his dwelling in the county of Surrey, "where the maidens yearly planted and decked the graves of their defunct sweethearts with rose-bushes.
I remember to have visited it when I was a child, in the company of a doating mother, who breathed her last there; and the place, associated with that circumstance, had ever afterwards been the gloomiest spot in the county of my birth.
Dunbarton was one of the towns taken from Hillsborough County to form the County of Merrimack.
It is in Montgomery Countyand we often have late spring frosts there.
In a few years the whole oil region of Venango Countywas an inextricable tangle of these primitive pipelines.
The campaign was a most animated one, and Prentiss addressed the people in very nearly every county in the State; the people, en masse, flocked to hear him, and his name was in every mouth.
King never removed from the county of his birth, nor abandoned his profession, remaining upon the soil of his nativity and among those with whom he had been reared, maintaining through life the character of an upright man.
When admitted to practise law, he located in the little village of Lexington, in the County of Oglethorpe, and very soon was not only the leading lawyer, but the leading man of all the up-country of Georgia.
The judiciary of Georgia had consisted of two courts only--the superior, and inferior or county court--from the organization of the State.
He continued to reside upon his plantation in Lawrence County with his slaves, carefully providing for their every want until his death.
This county I believe, sir, was once represented in the State of Georgia as the County of Bourbon, at the time this State with Alabama constituted a part of that State.
In an almost adjoining county to that of the residence of Judge Lumpkin, was coming forward, in the profession of law, another gifted son of Georgia--Walter T.
They resided in Natchez, and there was a strong prejudice in the east and the north of the State against the people of that city and the County of Adams.
The five counties above named constituted the County of Bourbon when the jurisdiction of the United States was extended to the territory.
His march through the State was over the heads of the people, hundreds following him from county to county in his ovation.
This is the county of my birth, and all of these, save Cobb, were natives, too, of the dear old land.
The Republican party of Savannah nominated him to represent the county of Chatham, in the Legislature of the State, before he was twenty-one years of age.
And when he introduced his friend to another as the inferior judge of the Inferior Court of the inferior County of Lincoln, and was knocked down for the insult, he intreated the bystanders not to suffer him to be injured.
Permanent restoration of peace, however, was not to come to Perry County yet for a time.
Should I ever return to said county I am willing that the cases shall be redocketed and the trials proceed.
Devil Anse Hatfield and others were arrested for this, taken to Logan County and placed in jail there, but were soon afterwards released.
In this connection it may be well to state that the county has rarely had a coroner and no records were kept of deaths.
He had established in the county of Breathitt a reign of terror under the influence of which the law was paralyzed and its ministers overrun.
Except those required to be in attendance, the good citizens of the county were not there.
Justices of the Peace of Rowan Countyand which directed the delivery of Martin to Bowling.
He sold out his earthly possessions in Rowan County and bade farewell to his native State.
The ink had hardly dried on the treaty when Perry County was again thrown into turmoil and strife.
Prohibition is supposed to exist in Jackson and the county at large.
Pierce, the man who had so mysteriously appeared on the streets of Morehead in company with Cook Humphrey on the day of the riot, was arrested in Greenup County and taken to Bath County for trial on a charge of robbery.
Is it a wonder that Attorney-General Hardin stigmatized the whole machinery of justice in the county as "rotten"?
There was consternation among all who had in the least degree incurred the enmity of the tyrants who now controlled both county and town.
This famous castle, partly modernized, is now used for the county jail and courts, the prison-chapel being in the keep.
The irregularly-shaped district of Lancashire partly cut off from the remainder of the county by an arm of the Irish Sea is known as Furness.
Within is the sword surrendered to Nelson by Admiral Winthuysen at the battle of St. Vincent, and by him presented to the chief city of his native county of Norfolk.
Of the ancient Cambridge Castle, built by the Conqueror in 1068, nothing remains but the mound upon Castle Hill, where the county courts are now located.
Let us make a brief excursion south of Mount Snowdon, along the coast of the pastoral county of Merioneth, where Nature has put many crags and stones and a little gold and wheat, but where the people's best reliance is their flocks.
Here he lives in state and bounty, Lord of Burghley, fair and free, Not a lord in all the county is so great a lord as he.
Leicester Castle still exists only in a portion of the great hall, but it has been enlarged and modernized, and is now used for the county offices.
The county of Bedford gives the title to the dukedom held by the head of the great family of Russell, and Francis Charles Hastings Russell, the ninth Duke of Bedford, has his residence at the magnificent estate of Woburn Abbey.
The great manufacturing county of England for cotton and woollen spinning and weaving is Lancashire.
Her knowledge of spelling would not exceed that of an average third grade pupil, and she is called one of the best colored teachers in the county from which she came.
The recent fanaticism in the county did not get one believer from our church.
Now the pauper reads by a better light than the squire did in days when squires were county gods.
Two ministers in Whitley County had called a public meeting to discuss their peculiar doctrines.
A lawyer can scarcely achieve distinction while practicing in a backwoods county court, nor can a surgeon remain proficient in his science unless he keep in constant touch with the world of surgery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "county" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
