“The name by which we are known in open air must not be pronounced in this subterranean judgment-seat.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
“We are in the judgment-seat,” said Frank, settling to the pasty. ❋ Unknown (2007)
According to one account, he was cut down by the swords of the soldiers before the very judgment-seat of Theodoric; according to another, a cord was first fastened round his forehead, and tightened till ‘his eyes started’; he was then killed with a club. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is astonishing, when we read of the enormous injustice and barbarity of this beast, to know that no one struck him dead on the judgment-seat. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Surely, if the goddesses decide among themselves the question of the golden apple, Paris himself must vacate the judgment-seat. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now all refuge has perished, for ye must stand before the judgment-seat, and there is no appeal, but only hanging is in store for you. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This remark did not protect art and thought from being condemned once again before the judgment-seat of trade. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He is not blind to the defects of the Christian Church, and looks forward to a time when Christian and Pagan shall be alike brought before the judgment-seat, and the true City of God shall appear ... ❋ Unknown (2006)
The courage of young critics is prodigious: they clamber up to the judgment-seat, and, with scarce a hesitation, give their opinion upon works the most intricate or profound. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There are men to whom a peal of noes rattling about their ears never takes the sound of a true denial, and others to whom the word once pronounced, be it whispered ever so softly, comes as though it were an unchangeable verdict from the supreme judgment-seat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
No naked slave, ushered into the presence of some mighty prince, could approach his judgment-seat with more profound reverence and terror than that with which the Jew drew near to the presence of the Grand Master. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The bearers set me down at the gate of the Yamun among the festering wretches dragging the heavy weights, the filthy and noisy beggars, the gamblers, the fortune-tellers, the messengers of justice, and the countless hangers-on of the prison and judgment-seat of the Naam – Hoi magistrate, and passing through ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In numerous cases, when there is a press of business before the judgment-seat and a dead-lock occurs, accusers and witnesses are huddled indiscriminately into the Naam – Hoi prison, sometimes for months; and as the Governor or magistrate takes no measures to provide for them during the interval, some of the poorer ones who have no friends to bribe the jailer on their behalf, perish speedily. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In brief, the judgment-seat is a square hall, open at one end, with a roof supported on three columns. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In some cases criminals are brought directly from the judgment-seat to the execution ground on receiving sentence, but as ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
From the prison it is only a short distance to the judgment-seat, and passing once more through the “Gate of Righteousness,” we crossed a large court infested by gamblers and fortune-tellers, and presented ourselves at a porch with great figures painted on both its doors, and gay with the red insignia of mandarinism, which is the entrance to the stately residence of the Naam – Hoi magistrate, one of the subordinate dignitaries of Canton. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The powerful and unjust cowered at the steps of your judgment-seat, and the poor and oppressed arose like morn-awakened flowers under the sunshine of your protection. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Bible told, was not to be interpreted literally: when one came to think of it, had He ever — outside the Bible — been known to stoop from His judgment-seat, and lovingly and kindly intervene? ❋ Unknown (2003)
The people hearing this gave a great shout, and made such an outcry for delight, that there was no appeasing it; and the censors rising from their judgment-seat, accompanied him home to gratify the multitude, who followed after, clapping their hands and shouting. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
