To the jury he is the pleader employed as an actor.
I have my own principles and practice to answer for, and am an humble pleader for the gude auld cause in a legal way.
Some people even thought they could recognize Trachalus' style of oratory, fluent and sonorous, well adapted to tickle the ears of the crowd: and as he was a popular pleader his style was well known.
He made war only upon injustice and oppression; and when he commenced as a pleader he was noted for the energy with which he protected a client whom he believed to have been wronged.
He chose the bar for his profession; he resolved to make his way into popularity as a pleaderbefore the Senate courts and in the Forum.
There followed an overflowing half-column of warmest praise, embodying felicitations to the unnamed city so fortunate as to secure this "peerless pleader and Prince of Gentlemen.
That peerless pleader and Prince of Gentlemen," came crisply to my ears.
The youthful pleader had unconsciously used the most potent argument possible.
Sometimes he applauds the early efforts of a young pleader at the bar, or gives him counsel as to the causes which he should undertake, or the discipline necessary for oratorical success.
The poor pleader must hire or borrow purple robes and jewelled rings, if he is to compete with them.
The court is to him an arena worthy of the greatest talent and industry,(880) and the successful pleader may win a fame which may entitle him to take rank with the great orators of the past.
To this, the aforesaid pleader Alberic added that it had been signified to the king that the bishops muttered among themselves, and had even made preparation for some of their party to proceed to Rome against him.
At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience.
Neither the great merchant, nor the judge, nor the pleader preserves his sense of right; they feel no more, they apply set rules that leave cases out of count.
Consequently, a pleader should give each member of the jury something that he may get hold of and recognise as his own opinion.
Like Marcus Tullius, he was the foremost pleader of his day; like him again he dabbled in poetry, and his verses, so far as we know them, were sorry stuff.
Nor must his profession as a pleader be forgotten in enumerating the circumstances which concurred to give his writings their peculiar character.
Thus paper second followed paper first, Thus did the two join issue--nay, the four, Each pleaderhaving an adjunct.
It is much less convincing and suggests more of the characteristics of the special pleader with a difficult case.
He appears rather as a special pleader marshaling all available forces against the one institution which assailed the Union.
He is an exception to the proverb, and is none the worse pleader than he is always pleading his own cause.
It is as a satirist and pleader in verse that Dryden is best known, and as both he is in some respects unrivalled.
His reason for being chosen to speak the Prologue, is that he may be a pleader (orator) for the Poet, a task which would be likely to be better performed by him than by a younger man.
He is to be the pleader and advocate of the Poet, to influence the Audience in his favor, and against his adversaries; and not to explain the plot of the Play.
A polite and elegant scholar; an eminent pleader at the bar in Dublin, and afterward advanced to be one of the justices of the Common Pleas.
No pleader at the bar could match His diligence and quick dispatch; Ne'er kept a cause, he well may boast, Above a term or two at most.
Bulgaria had a position unique in her class, for she was luckier than most of her peers in having enlisted on her side the American delegation and Mr. Wilson as leading counsel and special pleader for her claim to an outlet to the Ægean Sea.
Armenia's cause found a forcible and suasive pleader in Boghos Pasha, whose way of marshaling arguments in favor of a contention that was frowned upon by many commanded admiration.
The pleader against, and the pleader for, made each in due order, the evolutions which they are accustomed to make in the arena which is called a criminal court.
It should be sufficiently evident to any unprejudiced reader that in writing it he has played the part of the special pleader rather than that of the historian.
He has used government records freely, and as is usually the case when a special pleader quotes from such records, the nature of the matter which he has omitted is worthy of more than passing attention.
He was a spokesman of the people, a democratic pleader for justice and sympathy.
But Hardy is so much a special pleader for Tess, that the argument suffers and a grave fault is apparent when the story's climax is studied.
He seized on the young pleader like a lion on his prey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleader" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
