Briefless

Shirker, who has about as much warmth as an eel, made up to Polly years and years ago, and was no bad match for a briefless barrister, as he was then. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Mortimer, John (2006)

But a short time since he was hungry and briefless in some garret of the ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then they had often discussed together the objects of their ambition and future prospects; then Tom Towers was struggling hard to maintain himself, as a briefless barrister, by shorthand reporting for any of the papers that would engage him; then he had not dared to dream of writing leaders for The Jupiter, or canvassing the conduct of Cabinet ministers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They had chosen their part, and she had chosen hers, — and had thought that she might climb to the glory of wealth and rank, while they would have to marry hard-working clergymen and briefless barristers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She half closed her eyes, and indulged herself in a fascinating picture of a briefless barrister lodged in a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When Nora Rowley made those comparisons between Mr Hugh Stanbury and Mr Charles Glascock, they were always wound up very much in favour of the briefless barrister. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He could not dare to face his friends in London as a young briefless barrister. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The attorney has always been seen as a briefless lawyer. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Men have died as almost briefless barristers, toiling into old age in heartless wrangling, who had their chance of high places on the bench, but ambitiously resolved to wait for something higher, and so missed the tide. ❋ Various (N/A)

There is a poor lad sitting biting his nails till he bites them to the quick, wearing out his heart-strings in constrained silence on the back benches of Westminster Hall: he maketh speeches, eloquent, inwardly, and briefless, mutely bothereth judges, and seduceth innocent juries to his ❋ Various (N/A)

What could a briefless barrister do better than throw himself upon the law? ❋ Various (N/A)

The next day he employed a briefless lawyer, one that had wit and brass enough and who had his way to make in the world, and was determined to make it. ❋ Austin Bidwell (N/A)

The magazine was not named after the publisher but after its sponsor, Hugh Fraser, a "briefless barrister" and man about town. ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)

When Lincoln was a briefless barrister, frequenting the courts on their own peregrinations, to catch the eye of client or judge, he was at Clinton, Illinois, where a case came up of a very modern nature. ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)

I believe they thought me too fast, and Tom too much of a genius: and, therefore, both of us were left among the ranks of the briefless army of the stove. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mrs. Miller was congratulating herself upon the success of her tactics; she flattered herself that her daughter was completely getting over that unlucky fancy for the penniless and briefless barrister. ❋ H. Lovett Cameron (N/A)

She has set her heart upon that briefless barrister. ❋ H. Lovett Cameron (N/A)

Longinus better than Littleton and Coke, and is happy in anything but law -- a briefless barrister, but a gentleman of consideration. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

Bissett was a fellow member of the Middle Temple, as contentedly briefless as himself. ❋ Various (N/A)