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Lexicographically close words:
coursed; courser; coursers; courses; coursing; courte; courted; courteous; courteouslie; courteously
  1. From the time when he encountered the Mohammedan propagandists at the Court of Uganda he has seen how intimately and vitally the faith and the traffic are everywhere united.

  2. Lord Aldborough paid the demand, and, on landing, went to the legal officer to know when the court of justice would sit.

  3. In the city a firebrand—in the court a liar—in the streets a bully—in the field a coward!

  4. The trial at length came on, and there were decidedly more parsons present than I believe ever appeared in any court of justice of the same dimensions.

  5. I replied, that Mr. Harvey, my senior, would return into court directly.

  6. Gillespie was discharged on his recognizance to appear in the court of King’s Bench the ensuing term, and plead his Majesty’s pardon.

  7. The Irish court at that period was kept up with great state, and hence the parties who frequented it were more select.

  8. When his court would have had him quarrel with and correct the Peloponnenses for their ingratitude to him, he said, "By no means; for if they despise and abuse me after being kind to them, what will they do if I do them harm?

  9. Although the court and juries were fast to bring to punishment those who had resisted the writs, yet Burton, the leader of the posse, who shot four persons after they had surrendered, was not even indicted by a Mormon grand jury.

  10. Proceedings will be instituted against them in a court organized by Chief Justice Eckels, held in this county, which court will supersede the necessity of appointing military commissions for the trial of such offenders.

  11. We do not propose to inquire into recommendations affecting the laws of the Territory, made by the Governor and Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of Utah.

  12. The jury thus instructed, though kept in session two weeks, utterly refused to do anything, and were finally discharged, as an evidently useless appendage of a court of justice.

  13. This order, however, was nugatory, as the court had no power to enforce its judgments.

  14. WAITE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Idaho.

  15. The court decided against the injunction, thus again sustaining the Secretary.

  16. The trial was not concluded when the court adjourned on Monday, and was to have been continued on the following day.

  17. The court being about to be held in Fillmore, a Jew was hired for $25 to quarrel with Drummond.

  18. The Probate Court of Salt Lake, imprisoning a United States Marshal, for obeying an order of the Supreme Court!

  19. They accordingly passed a bill, providing, among other things, for holding the court at St. George on the third Monday of October.

  20. In 1821 he was admitted an attorney of the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington.

  21. Fortunately the attorney, Mr. King, who drew up the papers before he went to California four years ago, has returned on a visit, and I am to meet him in court this afternoon.

  22. Upon that the court says: "But a far more difficult question arises under the other part of the objection.

  23. If the Court please, and gentlemen of the jury, on page 4645 there is the letter from Miner to Carey.

  24. If it is admitted by the Court we will establish exactly what I have told you.

  25. Let me just state it, and the Court will understand it perfectly.

  26. All the millions, however many there may be, are in your hands; they are to be disposed of by you under instructions from the Court as to the law.

  27. I offered to bring into court every check, including the time they said we drew money to pay Brady.

  28. First, I will refer the court to the tenth edition of Starkie, page 627.

  29. Read from page 1008 of the record and there you will find what the Court said about these very petitions: "I shall take the responsibility of dispensing with the reading of petitions when there is no point made with regard to them.

  30. The policy of the Government is to be found in its laws, and the Court was unwilling to allow a Second Assistant Postmaster-General to set up his policy in his defence against a charge in this court.

  31. And yet we are assured here in this august tribunal, in a Federal court of the United States, where the defendant stands under the protection of the the Constitution of his country, that his character is absolutely worthless.

  32. The usual question is--and the court determines that question--whether a man shall be a witness or not.

  33. Dorsey, and yet stood up in court and admitted that he had.

  34. That is the opinion of Mr. Justice MacLean, in 4 MacLean's Circuit Court Reports, 103.

  35. It is a question whether the Court too---- Mr. Ingersoll.

  36. Gentlemen, you have only to take into consideration, he says, what we offered to prove and what the Court would not allow us, and what the defendants failed to prove.

  37. At last, in the year 1710, he determined to make a humble proposal to Bishop Randulph of Bergen, and to Bishop Krog of Drontheim, entreating them to support at court his plans for the conversion of the Greenlanders.

  38. He will go to visit Okiok, and see the Kablunet, and court Nunaga," thought the jealous and suspicious Ujarak.

  39. The male periodically stops building to court the female.

  40. The male frequently interrupts construction to court the female.

  41. Over the Coroner's head is a small iron garland, the pendant handle of a bell, which rather gives the Majesty of the Court the appearance of going to be hanged presently.

  42. The Court of Exchequer having decided against the right of Alderman Salomons to take his seat in Parliament, Lord Lyndhurst has introduced a bill to remove Jewish disabilities.

  43. Why don't you wash and dress yourself when you come into a court of justice?

  44. The Court of Appeals decides that the law conflicts with that clause of the Constitution which requires the application of the revenues in each fiscal year, as also with that which forbids the incurring of a debt except in the mode specified.

  45. People talk across the court out of window, and bare-headed scouts come hurrying in from Chancery Lane to know what's the matter.

  46. The case was pleaded at great length; and the court pronounced a judgment declaring itself competent, keeping the case before it, fixing a day for discussing it on its merits, and condemning the Prefect in costs.

  47. Long-necked giraffes walked about, feeding from wooden racks in the court adjoining that of the hippopotamus, and glancing at us across it.

  48. The purest French is supposed to be spoken hereabouts, and the reputation thus given has for many years attracted hosts of foreigners anxious to attain the true accent formerly in vogue at the court of the refined Catherine de Medici.

  49. We can't take that, in a Court of Justice, gentlemen.

  50. Fenelon wrote his Telemachus in the palace of Versailles, at the court of the Grand Monarque, when discharging the duties of tutor to the Dauphin.

  51. He then returned to Rome, just after that city had been given over to sack; and the Pope was at Orvieto, where the Court was suffering very greatly from want of water.

  52. By the same master was drawn and reproduced in engraving a very beautiful ancient sarcophagus containing a lion-hunt, which was formerly at Maiano, and is now in the court of S.

  53. For Camillo Trevisano he painted the façade of his house at Murano, and in company with his son Marco he decorated the inner court with very beautiful scenes in chiaroscuro.

  54. When she has reached her twenty-first year she may manage her own property, if she chooses to do so, provided that she informs the court of her intention.

  55. In August 1912 the members of the Wiborg Town Court were arrested, and brought to St. Petersburg to be tried before a Russian Court for having refused to apply the law just mentioned.

  56. There is no doubt about it that the mazurka, when danced by stately court folk, is a very elegant and beautiful form of the terpsichorean art, although when young people get together it is apt to degenerate into something of a romp.

  57. When she has reached her twenty-fifth year she is of age, and may manage her own property without informing the court thereof.

  58. From the oil painting in the rooms of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, at Madison.

  59. From oil painting in Court House, at Davenport, Iowa.

  60. Before the next term of court could be held the tribe had been removed west of the Mississippi, whither went the two defendants.

  61. At the Inns of Court at the present day, a mess consists of four persons.

  62. John of Gaddesden, Professor of Medicine in Merton College, Oxford, and Court Physician to Edward II.

  63. A higher and more ceremonial court was held by the king in the periodical assembly.

  64. The normal court of law in ancient Ireland was the king's court, as the normal court in a Gaulish republic was the court of the magistrates of the republic.

  65. It is probably true that after the Feudal invasion, and especially when Irish law was adopted by Feudal lords, the brehon's court tended to supersede the court of king or lord as the normal instrument of judicature.

  66. Each of these assemblies was a court of law as well as a court of state.

  67. Reading it, one comes to realise the importance held by the assembly and particularly the court of assembly, the airecht, in the minds of our ancestors.

  68. The story of Cormac introduces us to a king's court held at the king's place of abode and in his house.

  69. There is, however, one little fact which shows us how effectively Margaret's influence operated against the Gaelic tradition of the Scottish court and its outlook.

  70. This court of assembly was called by the name airecht, oireacht; the word is used to translate the Latin curia.

  71. The first consequence will probably be, that the Court will have a considerable majority upon the new Elections.

  72. Samuel Turner and Sir Robert Ladbrooke were unstable, and a few months later, “ratted” and becoming subservient to Court influence, did their best to betray the liberties of the citizens confided to their championship.

  73. Here’s a minion sent down to a corporate town, In hopes to be newly elected; By his prodigal show, you may easily know To the Court he is truly affected.

  74. The inner court was festooned with flags, and covered with a large mat.

  75. White, I feel that these two might possibly bring about the creation of the needed International Court for the abolition of war.

  76. The day that International Court is established will become one of the most memorable days in the world's history.

  77. After Mr. Kloman had passed through the bankruptcy court and was again free, we offered him a ten per cent interest in our business, charging for it only the actual capital invested, with nothing whatever for good-will.

  78. In case of necessity appeal lay directly to the Supreme Court of the United States, a body vying with their own high tribunals.

  79. The citizens won a victory in the highest court and the then Laird ordered that thereafter "no Morrison be admitted to the Glen.

  80. He said he had intended going off on a revenue cutter for a few days, but Judge Bradley of the Supreme Court had died and he must find a worthy successor.

  81. The judge within sits in the supreme court and can never be cheated.

  82. The first impression of the church on landing from the gondola on the desolate-looking piece of pavement which here, as in many of the Venetian churches, forms a court between the canal and the west front, is not pleasing.

  83. That daily court you and caress, How few the happy secret find Of your calm loveliness!

  84. We soon reached the poor and desolate streets of the town, and diving into the dark court of the not over-clean looking hotel, gave ourselves up for a time to the contemplation of the quiet loveliness of the scene.

  85. Towards this court there is the same sort of arrangement throughout (though many modifications of detail)--an open arcade of pointed arches below, and a series of fine windows lighting a corridor above.

  86. In front of this church there is a court or atrium, surrounded with a perfectly open arcade, which is continued all along the north side of the church next the road and over the public footpath.

  87. One of the witnesses in the Court Martial Proceedings, of Major General Howe, in 1780, (N.

  88. Magistrate and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Parish of St. Ann.

  89. Magistrate and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Parish of Kingston.

  90. Magistrate and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Parish Port Royal.

  91. Hardly had he landed at Amsterdam, before he was arraigned by Samuel Nassy before the civil court and he was compelled to vindicate his conduct.

  92. Magistrate and Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Parish of Clarendon.

  93. Why, boy, 'tis the custom of the court to take all that one can get," cried Sir Walter who was noted for that very thing.

  94. She bade my supposed son to attend her in her chamber; and then, thou knowest the tenor of the court talk, she asked if she did not deem her mother fairer than she, the queen, was.

  95. It pays to give court to reduced royalty.

  96. But save for the few who were told, not one at the court penetrated my masquerade," said Francis.

  97. My good Rutland, expect not court manners in the midst of a forest.

  98. It was ill in thee not to return to us, but thou art young and full well do I ken the allurements that court life holds for youth.

  99. I would fain never behold the court again, and I pray that thou mayst never be called to its treacherous pleasures.

  100. So soon as I heard my father's name I left the court without leave, and came hither with all dispatch to warn him.

  101. Thou must come to the court oftener, Greville.

  102. The queen hath commanded that my son, Francis Stafford, shall accompany my Lord Shrope to the court to become one of her pensioners.

  103. Twould not be wise for thee to appear at court just now.

  104. We were near forgetting, Sir Malapert, that thou hadst not had benefit of court life.

  105. I have been longer at the court than thou and therefore know of that of which I speak.

  106. As thou art new to the court thou mayest not know that it is not permitted to any to deem any fair save the queen, and so we are sometimes forced to send tokens sub rosa.

  107. Save and except that I wearied of the court and its vain pleasures.

  108. Court said: "This is not a question of substituting the judgment of the Court for that of the Legislature.

  109. I think perhaps there is more reason to expect a favorable decision from some of the courts in the Western States than from the New York Court of Appeals.

  110. This court was created in 1878, and given this power.

  111. The Supreme Court of the United States approved this opinion in Knoxville vs.

  112. One chart shows the compensation they received, either through court action or from the employer, and it shows what 50 families received where the man was killed in a one-at-a-time accident in ten of the large cities of this country.

  113. In respect to the length of hours, dangerous labor may be required, it was said by the Supreme Court in Holden vs.

  114. That was carried to the same court and the Court held that the Legislature was entirely within its rights and had power to so declare.

  115. The charges of a lawyer to handle the case exceed the actual court charges many times.

  116. The Appellate Court here has the power to pass on findings of facts.

  117. These cases are put into the hands of the court and paid by the court and not by the attorneys, and it is left optional as to whether he will take a lump sum or an annuity.

  118. And while searching for their young mistress, the domestics of Llangorren Court have the romantic tale in their minds.

  119. For, to let out a little secret, the French lady's-maid was not the only feminine at Llangorren Court who had cast admiring eyes on the handsome boatman who came there rowing Captain Ryecroft.

  120. Two more days have passed, and the crowd collected at Llangorren Court is larger than ever.

  121. It would be strange if she should, with the love novels she continues to devour, and the "Court Intelligence" she gulps down, keeping alive the hallucination that she is still a belle at Bath and Cheltenham.

  122. Sir George is an old friend of the Wynn family--was an intimate associate of Gwen's deceased father--and both he and his son have been accustomed to look in at Llangorren Court san ceremonie.

  123. I would rather get it from your lips; and that you may have the opportunity of so giving it, I will call at the Court in the afternoon.

  124. On arrival at his home, and hearing of the great event at Llangorren, he had launched his skiff, leaped into it, and pulled himself down to the Court as if rowing in a regatta.

  125. You'll find plenty of people at the Court on your arrival.

  126. To his having been in this condition, several of the Court domestics, at the time called out of their beds, with purpose prepense, were able to bear witness.

  127. Court intelligence, with its odious plush and petty paltriness--this is the pabulum of a "London Daily" even the leading one supplies to its easily satisfied clientele of readers!

  128. He remains at the Court throughout the evening, making excursions into the adjacent woods, searching, and again exploring everywhere.

  129. At Llangorren Court all is changed, from owner down to the humblest domestic.

  130. In his several calls at the Court his reception has been both welcome and warm.

  131. She listened with that Ominous Calm which always precedes the Iowa Cyclone that takes the Roof off the Court House and moves the Poor Farm into the Adjoining County.

  132. It must be known that the Court lived in a Ward that was Dark in one End, and he was out for the Colored Vote in case he ran for Judge.

  133. The next day the whole court was assembled and the three women gave their skeins of wool, and then the prince turned to the girl and said:— “What have you done?

  134. Let him come in a week with all his court and fetch you.

  135. The next morning the three women with their grand dresses, and their pomade, and their scent, strutted boldly in before the court and the prince.

  136. If he were to marry me I would make, in one day, enough bread to last the court for a year.

  137. The next day the whole court was assembled again.

  138. We may mention, however, the terrible little poem entitled “Meminisse Horret,” written in 1867 while the Court was at Florence.


  139. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "court" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; address; alley; approach; area; arena; arterial; artery; assembly; association; attendance; attendant; attract; avenue; beak; bench; board; bypass; byway; cabinet; canvass; castle; causeway; chamber; chase; cincture; close; cohort; commission; conference; confine; container; coop; cortege; course; court; courthouse; courtyard; crescent; cultivate; date; diamond; diet; dike; directory; divan; dock; drive; driveway; enclave; enclosure; entourage; expressway; fairway; fawn; field; flatter; fold; follow; follower; following; freeway; gallantry; gridiron; ground; gymnasium; handshake; heavyweight; highroad; highway; infield; influence; invite; judge; judicature; junta; justice; key; lane; legislature; list; lobby; lobbyist; magistrate; manipulator; mansion; mews; outfield; oval; pale; parasite; park; parkway; parliament; pen; pike; place; play; playground; playroom; poolroom; pursue; quadrangle; racecourse; retinue; rink; road; roadbed; roadway; romance; rout; row; satellite; seek; serenade; solicit; spark; square; squire; staff; street; stretch; suds; sue; suit; suite; sweetheart; syndicate; synod; take; tempt; terrace; theater; thoroughfare; tower; track; train; tribunal; turf; turnpike; woo; wooing; yard


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    court bouillon; court card; court circles; court etiquette; court favour; court leet; court life; court martial; court order; court painter; court room; courteous knight; courtly love