And as the pleadingswere vague and windy His Lordship ordered memorials hinc inde.
One nervous old barrister named Lamb, who usually prefaced his pleadings with an apology, said to Erskine one day that he felt more timid as he grew older.
What will be the price of the plaintiff's pleadings then, Madams?
I was not entitled to put this question now, since I had not dared to allege in my letters or pleadings that I had breached my promise owing to any misconduct of plaintiff.
Nothing came of these pleadings of Paine; but perhaps on his last stroll along the Hudson, with his friend Fulton, to watch the little steamer, he may have recognized the real mediator beginning its labors for the federation of the world.
With Danton, Paine had been on friendly terms, though he described as "rose water" the author's pleadings against the guillotine.
The wife of Utina, with her father, came to the barks of the Frenchmen, bringing bread for the present wants of the company; but the policy of the Indians did not suffer the pleadings of the woman to prevail.
And I conjure this high and sacred court to let not these pleadings be heard in vain.
The speaker, less convinced by the eloquent pleadings of the petitions before him, than by his recent disappointment, took part with the opposition.
Get up, immediately," he said in an assertive voice quite different from his futile and inane pleadings of a short while before.
Then he had gone away, and when Lem's pleadings had suddenly ceased, Eveley felt that the little tempest would live its life, and die its death, and perhaps Miriam at least would find happiness in the lull that followed.
How faint were the pleadings of duty against such arguments!
Could I hazard the consequences of an avowal, which all my subsequent pleadings could never obliterate.
Therefore, I have added soliloquies to many of these directions for love, to show you how, by such pleadings with yourselves, to affect your hearts, and kindle love.
Her tears, her shrieks, her piteous pleadings were all in vain.
For the pleadings before the Star Chamber under Henry the Eighth see Schanz, ii.
To all the despairing pleadingsand appeals of her lover she has but one answer:-- "You must forgive Fedalma all her debt.
But the trustees stood firm against the subtle cunning of the politicians, and the eloquent pleadings of avarice.
Her husband Basilius is now ordered to reply to the pleadings of the opposite party, either at the King's Comitatus, or in some local court of competent jurisdiction.
He then had to watch the course of the pleadings and listen to the Judge's decision, so as to be able to prepare a full statement of the case for the Registers or Journals[155] of the Court.
They will find them to be in the character of prosecution pleadings against an accused man, on his trial for the commission of great crimes!
Mademoiselle de Valois was driven to distraction; and when tears and pleadings failed to soften her father's heart, she declared in the hearing of the Court that she would commit suicide unless her lover was restored to liberty.
Her pleadings and tears and faintings were powerless to melt him.
In vain did the boy-King storm and protest; equally futile were Marie's tearful pleadings to her uncle.
As a last resource Marie flies to the King, with tender pleadings and tears, begging him not to desert her; to which he answers that no power on earth shall make him wed the Infanta.
Milan, however, was resolute not to surrender the plotter, and turned a deaf ear to all the Princess's pleadings and cajoleries.
It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleadings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
