Noun : the last assize; the great assize. From Dictionary.com.
He's the judge and the jury at the jester's assize. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman] Reference
IN FORO CONSCIENTIAE, in the assize of conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
I have counted as many as four cases at one assize. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
I can let him go, or let him rot there until the assize. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
It happened that the king's assize was being held just then in. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
At the very next assize the king announced the prince's tutors. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The English dance and dress during an assize week, and the lively. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
The court is met, the assize are set: the robes of state look brave. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Plympton, with assize of bread and beer, and this right was allowed. '. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
In 1534 a second great assize against heretics was held in the same place. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
If the country folks of those assize towns on his circuit could see him now!. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
He recommended the establishment of an additional circuit and of a second assize. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Aylesbury is the assize town for the county, though Buckingham is the county town. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
The first assize of ale seems not to have been enacted till the reign of Henry III. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Appeal was made, therefore; but the appeal court upheld the judgment of the assize court. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
I was held till the assize, and then the judge ordered me flogged and made me sign on a carrack. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
And, finally, appointed the said indictment and defence to be submitted to the judgment of an assize. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Hampshire? — its revenues of Stanwell, and rents of assize? — its spiritualities in Cardiganshire?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
From eight to ten of these desperate characters were sent to Cork for trial at every assize of Bear Haven. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He is fearful of being sheriff of the shire by instinct, and dreads the assize-week as much as the prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Child, a barrister of the Temple, belonging to the western circuit, of which Reading is the first assize-town. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
The detective sat down at a desk quietly, and even without hesitation; but his eye was the iron eye of a judge at assize. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
His practice was as slender as his means, but nevertheless he managed to ride the western circuit after the judges of assize. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
His travels never exceeded the distance to the county-town, and that only at assize-and session-time, or to attend an election. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
At Hamersham, the assize town, he was generally in some repute, being a constant grand juror for the county, and a man who paid his way. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
The judge of assize, before whom I shall soon stand for my trial, might command me to retire to prison without a verdict given by a jury. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
When he concluded, however, there was a good deal of whispering in the jury-box, and at last the gentlemen of the assize requested permission to retire. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
Clare, and his success was mainly owing to the eloquence of one of his monks, who pleaded the cause of the monastery in person, before the judge of assize at Northampton. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
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