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Example sentences for "magistrate"

Lexicographically close words:
magistra; magistracies; magistracy; magistral; magistrat; magistrates; magistrats; magistrature; magistratus; magistri
  1. Mr. Lewis submitted to the magistrate that there had been no attempt to murder the infant.

  2. From this document it appeared that the committees of the two churches were not at one on the question as to the relation of the civil magistrate to the church.

  3. If the magistrate connive at his absenting himself from the Sabbath duties, the sin will be greater in the magistrate than can be the other's coming.

  4. He refused the title of king, but accepted as a civil magistrate the name of imperator, [26] with which the soldiers had been wont to salute a victorious general.

  5. Note the sacred laurel trees, the two altars, and the officiating magistrate whose head is covered with the toga.

  6. Any tribune could veto, that is, forbid, the act of a magistrate which seemed to bear harshly on a citizen.

  7. Though a magistrate could not legally be removed from office, Tiberius had the offending tribune deposed and dragged from his seat.

  8. A magistrate was at length found who would act, but it was then too late, as drink had rendered the mob insensible to danger.

  9. In the early part of this session the house considered a charge brought by Mr. Denman against Mr. Kenrick, a magistrate of the county of Surrey, and one of the Welsh judges.

  10. This has reference to a scene which occurred at the house of Lord Mansfield, where some of the mob were still collected, when a magistrate was found willing to act.

  11. The bill further declared that a commission of the peace might be granted in any large borough if the lord-lieutenant thought fit, and in other towns the mayor for the time being would be the magistrate of the borough.

  12. Perpetual magistrate is he Who keeps strict justice full in sight; Who bids the crowd at awful distance gaze, And virtue's arms victoriously displays.

  13. I have known the chief magistrate of fifty thousand people, fall from his phaeton, and humbly ask bread at a parish vestry.

  14. If the laws are defective, or the magistrate too weak to execute them, it is dangerous for a man to possess property.

  15. If a man's sentiments and practice in religious matters, appear even absurd, provided society is not injured, what right hath the magistrate to interfere?

  16. If the magistrate has been too weak to execute his designs, he has backed his schemes with the aid of the church; this occurred with King Stephen and the Bishops.

  17. She tells the magistrate how it happened, and resists his improper advances.

  18. The lady's maid tells the magistrate that she had put him into the chest which the money-lenders had stolen.

  19. The third witness was an ex-magistrate of Whithorn, who told that he was almost run to earth by the goblin.

  20. I lick him again before the magistrate and send him home.

  21. Really the magistrate of Pontevedra lied with so much ease, and in such a serious way, that it became a question whether he was an artful rogue, who delighted to upset his friends.

  22. All eyes were now turned to the Galician magistrate in surprise.

  23. It was Don Enrique Valero, also a magistrate of the Court, a man of an agreeable presence, with a fine expressive face, albeit somewhat marked by the fast life he had lived.

  24. His colleague's unblushing lying propensity aroused in the magistrate an indignation that was sometimes real, and sometimes feigned.

  25. His name was Saleta, and he was a magistrate of the Court of Justice, and a constant visitor at the Quinones' house.

  26. The row only subsided when the magistrate gave orders for the Court to be cleared.

  27. Strabonius reports that the inhabitants of Cathea brought their infants at the age of two months before a magistrate for inspection.

  28. A remarkable instance is an old magistrate known to Hufeland, who lived at Rechingen and who died in 1791 aged one hundred and twenty.

  29. Beethoven's personal intervention with the magistrate eased the situation for the nephew.

  30. It finally required the combined ecclesiastical and secular authority of Linz (bishop, magistrate and police), to effect the expulsion of the lady from town.

  31. The following one shows Beethoven's ethical character in strong light: To the Magistrate Czapka: DEAR SIR: Hofrath von Breuning and I have carefully considered what is best to be done.

  32. The Grand-Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Baden-Hombourg arrived in America on a tour of pleasure, and in due course came on to pay their respects to the Chief Magistrate of the Union.

  33. Our chief magistrate is a citizen like any one else.

  34. Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks now stood forth, and communicated to the magistrate all he knew or suspected, from the reserve of Waverley, and the evasions of Callum Beg.

  35. Mr. Morton prudently abstained from argument, which he perceived would only harden the magistrate in his opinion, and merely asked how he intended to dispose of the prisoner?

  36. What a thing we should think it for a worshipful magistrate to call up a girl of that character to talk to a lady!

  37. It does give one a sort of start to hear a most respectable magistrate tell one such a domestic arrangement.

  38. A little later the examining magistrate was sitting in the kitchen drinking tea, while Loshadin, the constable, was standing at the door talking.

  39. The coachman said he could see the forest; the examining magistrate could see nothing but the trace horse.

  40. The examining magistrate saw a stick with a crook, and a beard and a bag, and he fancied that it was Loshadin, and even fancied that he was smiling.

  41. The elder gave orders that he was to be informed when the police superintendent or the examining magistrate came," he said, "so I suppose I must go now.

  42. The examining magistrate did not sleep soundly.

  43. In the outer room the doctor and the examining magistrate shook the snow off themselves and knocked it off their boots.

  44. The youth of the examining magistrate aroused his compassion, and that was probably why he addressed him familiarly.

  45. When it was fully daylight the doctor and the examining magistrate put on their fur coats and felt boots, and, saying good-by to their host, went out.

  46. The examining magistrate laughed, danced a quadrille, flirted, and kept wondering whether it was not all a dream?

  47. The doctor and the examining magistrate got into the sledge, and the white coachman bent over them to button up the cover.

  48. The examining magistrate listened: there was no woman up there, it was the wind howling.

  49. The doctor and the examining magistrate said nothing, got into the sledge, and drove to Syrnya.

  50. A Deputy Magistrate was ordered to secretly investigate the matter and, if possible, to capture the miscreants.

  51. Him they left lying there; but rolled the offending Magistrate in an old mat, bound him tightly with a rope and carried him away to the river.

  52. The Magistrate told him of the dacoits and of his escape.

  53. The unfortunate Magistrate could not understand his father-in-law's behaviour.

  54. About midnight, the Magistrate awoke with a start to hear many voices calling him by name.

  55. The Deputy Magistrate In the Dacca district, a few years ago, there was a big dacoity.

  56. For a time the Magistrate pleaded to deaf ears.

  57. Two years before a movement was started by the local magistrate and the people for building a breakwater to serve as a barrier against the floods.

  58. By a bribe his accuser had the matter brought before a magistrate who was well known as anti-foreign, and who no sooner heard he was in foreign employ than he ordered him to be beaten without going into the case.

  59. An assistant deputy magistrate on the Chihli expectant list had a daughter renowned for her docile disposition and her filial piety.

  60. Certainly, the city magistrate went down to inspect the spot.

  61. Why so much vagueness in indicating the chief magistrate of the Republic?

  62. But his associates made a violent assault on that magistrate as he was leaving the Priors' palace, and after wounding or killing several of his escort, broke into the prison and rescued the criminal.

  63. And even as the Republic had a foreign magistrate in the person of the Podesta, so the guild had one also in the person of its notary, likewise appointed for one year.

  64. This decree rigorously prohibited recourse to any tribunal or magistrate save to the legally constituted authorities, such as the priors, the Captain, Podesta, or the judges in ordinary of the Commune.

  65. Their united body of consuls formed the capitudini, and these were afterwards headed by a proconsul, a magistrate held in the highest esteem.

  66. They bore colours given them by either magistrate in the presence of the public parliament, and whenever the bell rang the signal for their assembly no gatherings of the people were allowed in the city.

  67. Venice is perhaps the only Commune in which it was customary, in the absence of statutory provisions, to appeal to natural reason: whence Bartolo's remark that the Venetian magistrate gave judgment manu regia et arbitrio suo.

  68. Thus a magistrate originally appointed--according to the chroniclers--to do the work of an ordinary judge is seen gradually fulfilling the functions of the head of the Republic.

  69. A woman of suitable age may be committed by any judge or magistrate for any offense over which he has jurisdiction, except murder in the first and second degrees, provided, however, that the woman has not previously been convicted of a felony.

  70. The Chief Magistrate of the city has stated in print the following: "The present Workhouse, through no fault of the Commissioner or its officers, is a poor place for these women.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magistrate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administration; arbiter; arbitrator; beak; chancellor; commissioner; court; elder; executive; headman; indicator; judge; justice; legislator; magistrate; management; mayor; minister; moderator; officer; official; prefect; president; referee; selectman; supervisor; treasurer; umpire; warden