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The Court-house square in Edgefield, S.C., was where many "old timers" sat and talked every day.
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Court-house, they became involved in the mob, and subject, of course, to their insolence.
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The hope to which unconsciously, and in spite of himself, he had still secretly clung, had now dissolved, and the venerable old man fell forward senseless on the floor of the Court-house, with his head at the foot of his terrified daughter.
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Admitted within the precincts of the Court-house, they found the usual number of busy office-bearers, and idle loiterers, who attend on these scenes by choice, or from duty.
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Maso times del Saggio, being one morning in search of an especiall friend, went to the Court-house, and being there, observed in what manner Messer Niccolao was seated; who looking like some strange
The Decameron 2004
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Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imitation of the Parthenon: the ancient religions houses of the Spanish town are gone, or turned into military residences, and masked so that you would never know their former pious destination.
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There are two stores on the beach, and at these and at the Court-house they aggregate, for lack of club-house and exchange.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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In this guise they reached the Court-house without any interruption, and they found the business of the day there far advanced.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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After he had met with them, these were his salutations: My honest Boyes, if ever you did me any kindnesse, declare it more effectually now, in accompanying me to the Court-house, where you shall behold such a singular spectacle, as (I am sure) you never yet saw the like.
The Decameron 2004
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Business is not here a synonym for hurry, and official duties are light; so light, that in these morning hours I see the governor, the sheriff, and the judge, with three other gentlemen, playing an interminable croquet game on the Court-house lawn.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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