court

• I do not bear patiently any evil spoken of the court: for it must be acknowledged, by the most malicious, that the court is the purifier of the whole nation La Fontaine. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
• His work as examiner-in-general for the court was a merciful failure, and encouraged the students of the district to return to their district court, who on the rumour of him had transferred themselves in a body to a Highland Presbytery, where the standard question in Philosophy used to be, "How many horns has a dilemma, and distinguish the one from the other." —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
• I'll steal into the court, and gaze upon the star that sways the fortunes of his royal house The moonbeam fell upon the fountain; the pavement of the court was a flood of light; the rocks rose dark around. —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
• He despised these two courts, transposed to the banks of the Rhine, for his court was his camp. —  History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
• His work as examiner-in-general for the court was a merciful failure, and encouraged the students of the district to return to their district court, who, on the mere rumour of him, had transferred themselves in a body to a Highland Presbytery, where the standard question in Philosophy used to be, "How many horns has a dilemma, and distinguish the one from the other." —  Rabbi Saunderson

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