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Example sentences for "inquest"

Lexicographically close words:
inough; inpouring; input; inputs; inque; inquests; inquietude; inquietudes; inquire; inquired
  1. Durham attended the inquest as Sir Simon's lawyer and executor, and Miss Plantagenet attended it with him.

  2. A jury at an inquest has not the right to condemn a man," said Durham, sharply.

  3. Not till after the inquest did any newspaper venture to state that the man had really committed the crime.

  4. When I have heard the evidence at the inquest I'll know how to shape my course.

  5. Her good opinion was strengthened at the inquest by the sturdy way in which the lawyer maintained this point.

  6. Finally the paper stated that an inquest would be held within two days on the dead body.

  7. With regard to the commission of the crime, the jury at the inquest found Bernard guilty without one dissenting voice.

  8. An inquest was held at the Blue Boar, and after a post-mortem examination of the bodies, and the whole of the Evidence heard by the Jury, a Verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against William Thompson.

  9. Lankester, the coroner, held an adjourned inquest on Wednesday, and there being no further evidence the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder by hanging and suffocation of Richard A.

  10. After hanging an hour the bodies were cut down, and an inquest was held at eleven.

  11. Yesterday, at noon, an inquest was opened at the Race Hill Inn, Lewes Road, before J.

  12. I wish to be placed in the earth at the least possible expense and inconvenience at the inquest this writing will shew that I caused my own death, being, at the same time quite serene and composed.

  13. At the Coroner’s inquest it was given in evidence that the child had been beaten on the head with a heavy flint stone, and its tongue cut completely out at the root.

  14. Mr. Nisbet's evidence at the inquest was a tissue of fabrications.

  15. The inquest was held, and you gave false evidence at it.

  16. The doctor testified at the inquest to the cause of the young lady's death.

  17. When I first made his acquaintance he promised to assist me and set me up in a good way of business, but after the inquest I lost sight of him, and his promises were not fulfilled.

  18. An inquest was held yesterday at the Hare and Hounds on the body of Beatrice Lockyer, a young lady residing with her stepfather at 79 Lamb's Terrace, who met her death by suffocation.

  19. Who else at the inquest could have known anything about it?

  20. Observe," I remarked, "that at the inquest no allusion is made to the fact that Mr. Nisbet would so largely benefit by the death of his stepdaughter.

  21. At the inquest he told a deliberate lie, for he swore he had never written to the woman, or sent her anything, or been on familiar terms with her.

  22. My marshal was the subject of equal discomfort; and I think I may congratulate you, gentlemen, not only on there being very few prisoners, but also on the fact that you are not holding an inquest on our bodies.

  23. Horsford at the inquest swore that he had never written to the deceased or visited her.

  24. An inquest was held and a post-mortem directed.

  25. All the trouble and inquest over that man's death, and through his sheer crass obstinacy.

  26. An inquest was held at Wimble's Museum, Danmouth'--eh?

  27. The coroners inquest was to him the enemy, and he would have to view the body.

  28. The inquest revealed that the schoolmaster had indeed gone into Saint-Marlouf on the days mentioned by the tradesman.

  29. For four days he did not go out, waiting for the inquest to be terminated; but on the fifth day he went out again and killed two more soldiers by the same stratagem.

  30. When the sheriff, with Grayson, had penetrated to the neighborhood of the coroner, the inquest was continued by calling David Sovine.

  31. Tom had been brought to the inquest in a wagon; but as it was necessary to avoid the main road, Mason had unharnessed Blaze for Tom to ride.

  32. Understanding that Tom was to be taken to the coroner's inquest that afternoon, Hiram tried to persuade the sheriff to take him to Perrysburg jail at night for safety; for he had no knowledge of Bob McCord's plan for sending the mob there.

  33. Something of the bold assurance which he displayed at the inquest was lacking.

  34. At the inquest the doctor distinctly said that there were no marks on the body to suggest he had been the victim of foul play.

  35. Found drowned; that will be the verdict of the inquest to-morrow, but that won't prove anything.

  36. When the inquest was adjourned, no doubt most people were surprised.

  37. Two days after the inquest I went to see the professor.

  38. Before the day fixed for the hearing of the adjourned inquest I went to see Christopher Quarles.

  39. I was convinced this was Quarles's position, and the straightforward evidence given at the inquest next day only confirmed this conviction.

  40. At the coroner's inquest it was said that he died from syncope, whatever that means, but the folks round here said it was fright.

  41. It's mortal unpleasant for me, for the doctors come along, and the coroner, and there's an inquest and no end of fuss.

  42. An inquest was held on the following day, but before it took place there was a new and most important development.

  43. She said at the inquest that she had earnestly warned Wentworth not to sleep in the haunted room.

  44. He was arrested on suspicion, and at the inquest the verdict was against him.

  45. There was, of course, an inquest and an autopsy.

  46. The coroner's inquest seems to deny the evidence of foul play, but I have my very strong suspicions.

  47. Great crowds surrounded the house, but only a few found entrance to the inquest room.

  48. As the inquest went on, he had again and again looked at the hands and arms of Orlando, and it had seemed impossible that, strong as he was, his fingers had the particular strength which could have done this thing.

  49. The inquest on Joel Mazarine was ended presently, and Nolan Doyle and the Young Doctor set out to tell Louise that a "low man," once her husband, had paid a high price for all that he had bought of the fruits of life out of due season.

  50. Talbot, if you require me to testify at the inquest in regard to this will.

  51. Talbot just enough to show you to be as desirable a witness in the impending inquest as myself.

  52. Till the inquest has been held over the remains of Mrs. Webb, Coroner Talbot wishes you to regard yourself as a possible witness.

  53. I read at the inquest a description of his cabin, in which it stated that the old logbooks of his vessel were preserved in it.

  54. I understand, however, from the inquest that there were some objects which you failed to overlook?

  55. You must have read in the account of the inquest about the man's cabin, Mr. Holmes, but perhaps your friend here has not heard of it.

  56. It was by virtue of his office that he had possession of the book in which he was reading; it had been found among the dead man's effects--in his cabin, where the inquest was now taking place.

  57. At the inquest upon his body the book was not put in evidence; possibly the coroner thought it not worth while to confuse the jury.

  58. The tidal train did not leave London early that morning; and the inquest was deferred, to suit other pressing engagements of the coroner, until the twenty-sixth.

  59. The coroner inquired, with a touch of irony, if the jury wished the inquest to be adjourned, under existing circumstances.

  60. She was curious to know how the inquest had ended.

  61. The doctor, returning a few minutes afterwards, had warned the two women that a coroner's inquest would be held in the house, and had vainly cautioned them to be careful of what they said or did in the interval.

  62. The purpose of the inquest is to ascertain how Mrs. Farnaby met with her death.

  63. The evidence drawn out by the inquest subsequently confirmed the innocence of these parties.

  64. The discovery was at once communicated to the police, and the body was soon after removed to the Morgue, where an inquest was held upon it.

  65. Your first official act will be to select a foreman and then to attempt to determine from the evidence as submitted the cause of death of the corpse over whom this inquest has been held.

  66. Besides, this is merely a coroner's inquest and not a court action.

  67. It was the bailiff, using a regular district-court introduction of the fact that an inquest was about to be held.

  68. What this inquest will bring forth, I do not know, but as sworn and true members of the coroner's jury, I charge and command you in the great name of the sovereign State of Colorado, to do your full duty in arriving at your verdict.

  69. It is customary in an inquest of this character; certain departures from the usual rules must be made that the truth and the whole truth be learned.

  70. In December, 1523, he served on the inquest of wardmote in the ward of Bread Street.

  71. The silence of spiritual and physical exhaustion in which Meynell had been wrapped since the morning of the inquest was first penetrated and broken up by the sight of Stephen's anguish.

  72. There's to be an inquest this evening, they say.

  73. There was much interest felt in Upcote Minor in the inquest held on John Broad's mother; and the kitchen had taken toll before the paper reached the drawing-room.

  74. Richard had told her, indeed, and she saw from the Post, that at the inquest Barron had apparently accounted for the conversation.

  75. Barron's manner to himself had been singularly abrupt and cold when they happened to run across each other, outside the room in which the inquest was held; but all that was sufficiently explained by the position of the heresy suit.

  76. On the days immediately following the publication of the evidence given at the inquest on Hester the outside world had made no sign.

  77. The Coroner has refused to open an inquest until Mr. John Lane can attend to give his evidence.

  78. On the night of the inquest Mr. Verner had his dinner served in his study--the wing of a fowl, of which he ate about a fourth part.

  79. Since the miserable occurrence touching Rachel, Robin Frost was a fearfully changed man; never, from the hour that the coroner's inquest was held and certain evidence had come out, had he been seen to smile.

  80. I want to know if that inquest can be squashed.

  81. The inquest had been summoned in due course.

  82. The revelation at the inquest had affected Mr. Verner in no measured degree, greatly increasing, for the time, his bodily ailments.

  83. As you know, the inquest was to have been to-day.

  84. There would be an inquest on the body of Sir Charles at ten o'clock the following morning, as the authorities had already informed her, but Beatrice had looked upon this as merely a formal affair.

  85. Whatever happens between now and this time to-morrow there must be no inquest on the body of Sir Charles Darryll!

  86. After the decision arrived at by both doctors, of course the inquest to-day would have been quite formal.

  87. FIRST CASE of an inquest which has taken place since the massacre of the memorable 3rd.


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    Other words:
    analysis; autopsy; coroner; country; examination; hearing; inquest; inquiring; inquiry; inspection; investigation; panel; postmortem; probe; probing; quest; research; trial; venire