And when Peacey wrote back, pointing out that Richard was legally his child, and that he would be taken out of her custody if she went on making this fuss about Roger, she chose immediately.
Surely that hardly ever happened except when there had been a divorce, and a husband whose wife had run away with another man was awarded by the courts "the custody of the child.
But happily the progress of the world is not in the exclusive custody of the occasional men of genius.
After replying to these questions, Grandier was removed in custody to a kraal, where he was threatened and beaten with very little respite, and for four days had nothing but mealies to eat.
Footnote 30: Robert Earl of Gloucester had been entrusted by Stephen with the custody of Dover Castle: but Robert lying now under heavy suspicion, the King sent Matilda his queen to besiege it, in which she was successful.
The duties of this office were the public reading of the longer scripture portions and the custody of the sacred books.
For the custodyof church jewels, ornaments, robes, books, archives, etc.
Convention between the representatives of Great Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia, who declared Bonaparte to be the prisoner of the allies, and entrusted his custody especially to Great Britain.
The Irishmen in New York made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue Thomas Kaine, in the custody of the United States marshal, and claimed by the British government, under the treaty, as a fugitive from justice.
Notwithstanding the pope's interdict, King John gave a receipt to the sacrist of Reading, for books which had been in the custody of the abbot of that monastery.
The two chiefs in his custody escaped from him there.
The rest of the Chinese property came into the possession of Captain Sebastian de Aguilar, and any other person who may have received into his keeping and custody other goods belonging to the said property.
The Bishops of Durham and Lichfield, both aged and infirm, obtained leave to be in the custody of the Black Rod.
He remained in the custody of Maxwell, the Usher of the Black Rod, ten weeks, compelled to pay 436l.
Then we have handed back the said young nobleman into the custody of the noble lord his father, after that by the said Hugues, the African has been recognised as the servant of the accused.
Of course, if we wished to send aliens out of the country, or to retain disaffected persons in custody without bringing them to trial, we must obtain an Act of Parliament empowering us to do so.
At the first watch, Fabius, on a signal given to those who were in the citadel, and those who had the custody of the harbour went himself round the harbour, and took up a position of concealment, on the side of the city which faced the east.
They were delivered into the custody of Lucius Virginius, a military tribune, together with the letter sealed as it was, to be conveyed to the consul Claudius.
Two suits of apparel were presented to each of the ambassadors, and one to each of their attendants and to the Numidians, who were discharged from custody and given back to the king.
The fellow would know me at once, and I might be laid by the heels again under the old warrant; besides being charged with breaking away from the custody of the soldiers.
It is followed by "the instrument of sessyn of the bell," dated twenty-one days later, from which we discover the substantial advantages pertaining to the custody of this relic.
It still remains there, in the custody of the sexton, and is regarded with such general interest as is likely to secure its preservation.
He was immediately conducted to the president, to whom he used some very imprudent expressions, and by whom he was committed to the custody of Centeno.
When this resolution of the viceroy was communicated to the oydors, they called the chancellor before them, from whom they took the seal, which they committed to the custody of the licentiate Cepeda, the senior oydor.
While in prison and till his death, Centeno, to whose custody he had been committed, treated him with much civility, and would not allow any one to insult his fallen greatness.
She cannot escape thence without your connivance," he said; "and you shall answer to me for her safe custody with your life.
Henceforth, we resign the custody of the powder to you.
Committing him to the custody of an officer of the guard, whom he enjoined to keep strict guard over him, as he valued his life, Knevet then went in search of the Earl of Salisbury.
In some places, the bier is kept in the custody of the barber, who brings it whenever it is required.
The jewels, and votive offerings made to the Bhutas, are kept in the custody of the Muktesar.
The guardian of the woman then goes away, after she has been handed over by the Smarta to the custody of the Purakkoyimma.
Duane, be taken into the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms attending this House, to be kept subject to the further orders of the Senate.
Who knows but the power in whose custody he is may expect America to interest herself in his favor?
A motion was made to add the following words to the end thereof: "And that the said Matthew Lyon be considered in the custodyof the Sergeant-at-arms until the further order of the House.
Within the past two years nine prisoners, who were either in jail or in the custody of the officers, have been taken from them without resistance, and put to death.
He was in the custody of the officials, but the mob went to the jail and took him out in front of the prison and hanged him by the neck until he was dead.
Through this, food and offerings were passed to the anchorite, together with the keys of the church treasure-chest, left in his custody by the clergy.
Stanley, (who was in custody with her,) who now reads the Scriptures in the Gipsy tents near Southampton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "custody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
