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 Herbert George 2004

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 William Ferneley Allen

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) 1920

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 1906

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 1905

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

On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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 1885

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 John Richard Green 1860

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 Charles James Lever 1839

'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 1801