She has set her heart upon that briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

The attorney has always been seen as a briefless lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [`Highlights' of 7th ANPP Assembly] Reference

But a short time since he was hungry and briefless in some garret of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

What could a briefless barrister do better than throw himself upon the law?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference

Bissett was a fellow member of the Middle Temple, as contentedly briefless as himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

The magazine was not named after the publisher but after its sponsor, Hugh Fraser, a "briefless barrister" and man about town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

Rumpole has been reduced to going to some free law advice place in the East End where he went as a young and briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]

A briefless lawyer is not very inflammable tinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia — Complete] Reference

Yet he was still the same briefless barrister he had ever been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont] Reference

Not as the briefless barrister -- the man without means or position! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Calf] Reference

Bacon continues a "briefless barrister," with much time at his disposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

But now he is simply a briefless barrister, without a friend in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Isle] Reference

Bitter are a briefless bag, a curate's bread, a diploma that brings no fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Duke] Reference

He could not dare to face his friends in London as a young briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference

England, who live at home at ease, what hardships briefless barristers endure. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

Serjeant's Inn, where he shared an office with a friend equally briefless and poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent House] Reference

Lucien was not yet admitted to Aix; Joseph was a barrister, to be sure, but briefless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

Polly years and years ago, and was no bad match for a briefless barrister, as he was then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

Marstern's father was wealthy, and all knew that he could afford to be briefless for a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taken Alive] Reference

Mr Charles Glascock, they were always wound up very much in favour of the briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Blondet upon one condition -- the penniless and briefless barrister must be an assistant judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

Rupert Carleton was still in the twenties, but he had been a briefless barrister for some years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holiday Round] Reference

I can only describe it in the well-worn phrases, 'briefless barrister' and 'impecunious junior.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Green Ray] Reference

He was, as has been said, although a clever, yet certainly at present a briefless young barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [How It All Came Round] Reference

Somerville, the briefless, held that in the absence of all data such conclusion was unjustifiable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tommy and Co.] Reference

I'm a barrister -- briefless -- the type of barrister that populates the Temple and all those places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference

For from the little man's snuff-taking and easy-going, idling ways, Boyd had taken him for a briefless advocate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference

He is a man of genuine worth, and neither a disappointed candidate for Government employ nor a briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hungry Stones and Other Stories] Reference

The briefless barrister complains that there is no middle course between having nothing to do and being overwhelmed with briefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

Candidate was a blow to us: we had hoped for nothing worse than a briefless carpet-bagger from the Temple, as on previous occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference

The briefless one looked happy -- nay, triumphant: Jennings was a wealthy man, all knew; and, any how, he should bag a bouncing fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference

Could it be the obscure, briefless lawyer in Gray's Inn (that very morning the object of his young pity) who was thus lifted into fame?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia — Complete] Reference

After all, few would credit the celebrated, beautiful actress with anything beyond a passing fancy for the youthful, briefless barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winding Paths] Reference