gaol-delivery

• “As soon as school was dismissed Lewisham made a gaol-delivery of his outstanding impositions, and hurried back to his lodgings, to spend the time until his dinner was ready — Well? ...”

  Love and Mr Lewisham

• “Two remarkable incidents marked the reign of Edward III. in connection with the City of London; the Lord Mayor was now constituted, by royal charter, one of the judges of oyer and terminer and gaol-delivery at”

  The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges

• “It is a vast liberation, a great gaol-delivery of the spirit of Man; nay, rather a great Acquittal.”

  X. On Reading the Bible (III)

• “As soon as school was dismissed Lewisham made a gaol-delivery of his outstanding impositions, and hurried back to his lodgings, to spend the time until his dinner was ready -- Well? ...”

  Love and Mr. Lewisham

• “The army was largely an army of gaol-birds, raised by gaol-delivery; but it was a good army of bad men; nay, it was a gay army of unfortunate men.”

  A Short History of England

• “It is a vast liberation, a great gaol-delivery of the spirit of Man; nay, rather a great”

  On The Art of Reading

• “The zealous author, however, regrets the general gaol-delivery on the score of sorcery, and thinks, had the times been calm, the case might have required a farther investigation, and that, on the whole, the matter was ended too abruptly.”

  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

• “Every person committed for felony or treason was entitled to be released on bail unless indicted at the next session of gaol-delivery after his commitment, and to be discharged if not indicted at the sessions which followed.”

  History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683

• “We know better, and hence we buy the Radical vote by a little coquetting with communism, and the model working-man and the rebel by an occasional gaol-delivery, and the Papist by a sop to the Holy Father.”

  Lord Kilgobbin

• “Tout au contraire,' cried Lady Delacour, starting from her reverie, and assuming a playful manner: 'I have made a general gaol-delivery of all my old hatreds; and even odious Mrs Luttridge, though a hardened offender, must be included in this act of grace: so you need not fear that Mr Vincent should fall under my royal displeasure for consorting with this state criminal.”

  Belinda

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