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The Court-House is a fine classical building, and it had the quiet and restfulness about it of concentrated thought, and moreover there was the delightful odour of books and papers that I remember as a little girl, for I drove to court every morning with my father, who very often took me into one of the court-rooms for a few moments before he kissed me good-bye and sent me home with my mammy.
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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The State-House occupies a bluff overhanging the river; the handsome residence of the governor, a crowded penitentiary, the Lincoln Institute, and the Court-House are the other public buildings.
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I found the passages and staircases of the Court-House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court itself similarly illuminated.
The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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I found the passages and staircases of the Court-House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court itself similarly illuminated.
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Court-House, Virginia, in the Christmas week prior to his arrival; that he reached Petersburg and then encountered difficulties of the most trying nature; he next stopped at City Point, and was equally unfortunate there.
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Washington's right wing, he ordered Greene to file off from the road to Monmouth and, while the rest of the army pushed forward, to fight his way into the wood at the rear of Monmouth Court-House.
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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Stafford Court-House Jail, however, the sheriff permitted him to walk a
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The Court-House, a clumsy old structure, in which was the law-office of Colonel Mallory, contained judicial records of a very early colonial period.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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The next day I had a meeting of women and addressed them, and then lectured in the evening in the Court-House to both colored and white.
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The Court then interfered on behalf of Mr. Macarthur, and after a long altercation the Judge-Advocate retired from the Court-House, leaving behind him his papers.
A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne
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