At this stage of the proceedings, a gentleman well known to you as a rising lawyer of this place before the war commenced, and better known since then as a gallant and meritorious officer, appears as her defendant.
It was clear to Blanka now why her lawyer had been so ready to renounce "the faith of his fathers.
The Very Reverend Dean Szerenyi was first sent by the master of ceremonies to instruct the lawyer and his client in the details of their approaching interview.
The lawyer put on his eyeglasses and read the name,--"Benjamin Vajdar.
But then they reconsidered the matter, and at last came to see that it was a very fair proposal, and one that needed no lawyer or interpreter to make clear to them.
When her lawyer had withdrawn she sought her book and turned its leaves in search of the address.
In a few days thelawyer carried out his purpose and was received into the Church of Rome.
Furthermore, by retaining a Protestant lawyer you appear to challenge me to the bitterest of conflicts.
She could hardly wait for her lawyer to return, so eager was she to question him in the matter.
No sooner had her lawyer left her than a letter was delivered to Blanka by one of the hotel servants.
It was so desperate that we hired a lawyer and laid the case before him that night as we sat in our horrid cells--they wouldn't take Hinckley for bail any more.
After the first no one wrote to her except the old lawyer who sent her half-yearly dividend; and she had written to no one.
Perhaps the old lawyer would let her anticipate it for once.
Meanwhile the lawyer was blowing his nose, wiping his spectacles, taking papers out of a pocket at the back of his frock-coat, and settling himself at the table.
The lawyer broke the seal, unfolded the will, and remarked by way of preface: "The document is in the handwriting of the deceased.
Fortunately the old lawyer had consented without demur to let Beth have her half-year's dividend in advance, so that there was money for Arthur.
A lawyer reading a will aloud is sure of the interest of his audience, and, on this occasion, it was evident that each member of the little group listened with strained attention, but with very different feelings.
Rodriguez was at once a guerilla chief and a demagogue; he was a lawyerwho wore the epaulets of a colonel.
The revolutionary movements of the year 1809 found an echo in Lima, and a young lawyer named Mateo Silva fell a victim to his patriotic ardour, dying in the casemates of Callao, after six years of imprisonment.
It troubled him so much that he went to see a lawyer about it.
But for several months nothing could be heard from the defendant, who was still absent in Europe, although the lawyer who managed his property in his native city wrote him frantic and repeated appeals to return and defend his case.
Brown University, and a lawyer by profession, who began practice in Winslow, Maine, in partnership with Gen.
Thomas, he believes that a man cannot be a great lawyer who is nothing else,--that exclusive devotion to the study and practice of the law tends to acumen rather than to breadth, to subtlety rather than to strength.
Great as has been his success in winning verdicts, and sound as have been his opinions, it is doubtful whether there is another lawyer living of equal eminence, whose charges for legal service have been so uniformly moderate.
I think it's a great thing to be such a governor as this lawyer will be," he said when he had recovered himself.
I wouldn't be a lawyer if that were not so," said Elizabeth.
The letter was from the gentleman who had been her father's lawyer in the city.
You're either a dominie or a lawyer -- one of the six.
I should say, your eye was a lawyerand your mouth a clergyman.
Why should a lawyer have a wife any more than a philosopher?
Winifred put her fingers thoughtfully through and through the short dark wavy brown hair which graced her brother's broad brow, and wondered with herself whether there would not be a better lawyer in the city before long.
Because he is said to be the best lawyerin the city.
I guess you're the heaviest article on board, Winthrop; -- she never carried a lawyer before.
Winthrop was a lawyer himself, and no longer in a lawyer's office.
I think it's a great thing to be such a lawyer as Governor will be," said Winnie.
After the rebellion of 1798, he was imprisoned, and upon gaining his freedom came to the United States, establishing himself as a lawyer in New York, where he was influential in amending and codifying the state laws.
Like most of the barristers of this country, he conceived that to be a lawyer was necessarily to be a politician, and he rushed forward into public life to extend his fame and enlarge his sphere of action.
How many clergymen of the present day would like to have their sermons judged by the standard of a great lawyer of a somewhat irritable temperament?
The famous lawyer does not specify the churches which he visited.
No, papa; it was the lawyer brought her, and then her own good heart made her burst out.
He set his lawyer to draw a deed, and his lawyerappointed a day for signing it at her house.
If a man wants to be my lawyer he must enter into my feelings a little.
The lady, with her good mother-wit, kept conversation going till the lawyer was nearly missing his next appointment.
The lawyer knocked down four brace in no time, and those that escaped him and turned back for the wood were brought down by Bassett, firing from the hard road.
But my lawyer tells me you seek pecuniary compensation for an affront.
It will cost you a thousand pounds, Sir Charles, I dare say; but if it teaches you never to write of an enemy or to an enemy without showing your lawyer the letter first, the lesson will be cheap.
My lawyer shall defend them at my expense," said Lady Bassett, with a sigh.
Well, the lawyer said there was no time to lose; so I have brought you the anonymous letter.
In this fencing-match between a lawyer and a lady each gained an advantage.
The question was argued before the full court, and the judges, led by the first lawyer of the age, decided unanimously that the provisions of the statute did not affect sane Englishmen and their rights under the common law.
The next morning Roland presented himself at the office of Mr. Fernlea, who was the leading lawyer of the town.
He had written once to his solicitor to make an inquiry; but it was simply whether the lawyer had seen him.
The Holy City was now besieged by the hireling host of France, acting under Oudinot; and the London lawyer had to stay outside.
In case there had been none, he did not wish the lawyer to be any wiser about the affair.
It had been made by a lawyer of the highest respectability, who was ready to prove it.
The lawyer took a chair; the lady sank into a couch.
Even the old lawyer acknowledged this, after reading the quaint letter of the brigand, and scrutinising its still more quaint enclosure.
I said this, noticing that the lawyer talked with an air of triumphant confidence, besides having used the conditional tense when speaking of the chances of his client being identified.
Perhaps the lawyer was never more delighted in his life, than when his clerk protruded his phiz inside the office-door, and announced sotto voce the arrival of General Harding.
The young Lincoln's Inn lawyer let his bag of gold drop heavily upon the doorstep.
Of course, General," said the lawyer apologetically, "we are obliged to make these remarks in the way of our profession.
These, and a few other like facts, were all that the London lawyer could learn about his professional brother of Rome.
Meantime, however, the evidence already in view seems quite enough to enable us to form a tolerably clear notion of the sort of lawyer he was down to the end of 1763, which may be regarded as the period of his novitiate at the bar.
In general, it may be described as a period during which he had settled down to steady work, both as a lawyer and as a politician.
This was commented upon with considerable ability by the lawyer for the commonwealth, and by another lawyer engaged by the friends of the deceased for the prosecution.
The Orham band-- minus its first cornet, who was himself one of the volunteers--had serenaded them at the railway station and the Congregational minister and Lawyer Poundberry of the Board of Selectmen had made speeches.
Our lawyer went to him; I went to him and begged him not to press the case.
All I have told thus far is established by such evidence as even a criminal lawyer would approve.
At last a lawyer at Reigate sprang one on us that had been made years ago during some temporary quarrel with my mother.
Let me consult my lawyer concerning this obligation, and if I find what you propose practicable, I'll give you my answer.
Oh no, 'tis the lawyerwith an itching palm; and he's come to be scratched.
I have ordered my lawyer to draw up writings of settlement and jointure--all shall be done to-night.
He was secretary there at first, but then he became a lawyer too.
No; he never said anything, but my sister told me about the time they had to take him out of the apartment, when she was working, and put him in that place, and she had to get a lawyer to get him out.
No lawyer of that name; but the famous Hatton lives here," was the reply.
Do you happen to know a lawyerby name Hatton in this Inn?
I know I can win that competition and build that boat for the Government,” said Holland to a young lawyer whom he had met at lunch in a downtown New York restaurant, “if I can only raise the money to pay the fees and other expenses.
I underestimated the brains in the son of a bitch--no, hardly even that, for a cub lawyer should have seen it coming, the obvious countercharge by innuendo.
A lawyer trying to be useful according to rational ethics--what is there to help him?
Earlier perhaps he had been too intensely preoccupied with other aspects of the case and with his own situation as Judge, the lawyer and judge dominant, the male animal quiescent or at least temporarily locked up in the cellar.
Cecil, what did you say to the rising young lawyer that turned him pink?
My lawyer has placed certain documents and information in my hands,” continued Mr. Brackett.
That lawyerfellow has been rustling around like a hen on a hot griddle for the last ten minutes.
It is only a few days since mylawyer reported to me the facts of an investigation into your career.
And the others are a lawyer and an officer of the law,” added Hiram.
He quickly gained the reputation of being the best feudal lawyer in Scotland, and is said to have received greater emoluments from his practice than any counsel before his time.
Clerk was of a convivial disposition, and the contrast between the crabbed lawyer and the good-natured bon vivant was strongly marked.
Cuthbert Grayne was perhaps more of a criminologist than either a lawyer or a policeman, but in his more barbarous surroundings he had proved successful in turning himself into a practical combination of all three.
As you know yourself, Bulmer could make a man feel pretty murderous, and I rather fancy the lawyer had himself irregularities to confess, and was in danger of exposure by his client.
The lawyer seemed the most alert of the group; he was articulate if somewhat abrupt.
He was very genial with his inferiors, and would have his lawyer and his architect staying in his house for all sorts of holidays and amusements.
Nobody's left lately, except that lawyer who was poking about for antiquities.
Eight hours after Bulmer's chauffeur saw his lawyer off by the train I heard Bulmer's own voice as plain as I hear yours now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
