Everybody in the courtroom seemed to be looking at him and whispering.
Gathered in Judge Russell's courtroom were as many of the office assistants as could escape from their duties, anxious to officiate at the legal demise of Caput Magnus.
The courtroom began to do the same--slanting this way and that and spinning obliquely round and round.
In spite of the fact that the building was unheated, and mushy snow was falling from a heavy sky once more, the courtroom was jammed on the day of the hearing.
We merely did what anyone else in this courtroom would do if he had the chance, and thought of it first," he said.
The walls of the courtroom are adorned with paintings of past governors as well as a full-length portrait of George the First.
The vaulted roof and the courtroom above for the Liberty of St. Mary have disappeared.
My methods may be a bit unusual--I always did like the courtroom scenes in the old books by that fellow Smith--but Space Lobby never had any reason to reverse my decisions.
The little courtroom was filled, mostly from the villages.
It was the general feeling of most of the heads of the villages when they met the next day in Southport, using the courtroom that had been presided over so long by Judge Ben Wilson.
Then Brotherton found that the Law and Order League was sending for its members to meet in the Federal courtroom at half-past eight.
Nesbit was loitering in the clerk's office, adjoining the courtroom to listen to the plea.
Nobody in the Courtroom knew better than he what was happening.
The stir that went through the courtroom was not shocked surprise, it was a sigh of fulfilled expectation.
Somebody must have given the petty officer a quick briefing on courtroom phraseology.
Some alterations in thecourtroom had been a conservative way of putting it.
Max Fane met them at the courtroom door with a pleasant greeting.
The man would think of him as he walked on in the snow--of his victory in the courtroom and his future.
The sharp cold restored his wandering energies and a realization of his victory in the courtroom brought him a belated glow.
As a recompense for her firmness and restraint in the courtroom she wept for long hours, as old women who have experienced great misery, or as very sympathetic and kind-hearted young people know how to weep.
It is not within the rail of the courtroom but within the pages of these sensational journals that justice is made a farce.
But the throngs that filled the courtroom were quiet and well ordered, and the justified interested outnumbered the morbid.
Having left an associate to select the jury the writer returned to the courtroom to find that his friend had chosen for foreman a Hebrew named Abraham Levy.
The door of the courtroom then opened, and James Parker was led to the bar and pleaded guilty to the forgery of the check in question.
We need have no fear of Star Chamber proceedings in America, and no harm would be done by excluding from the courtroom all persons who have no business there.
When it was all over, and the defendant had passed out of the courtroom rejoicing, he turned to the foreman and asked the reason for the verdict.
His morning wait in the courtroom had seemed interminable.
He merely felt a little lonesome and wished that he might look out over the sea of faces that crowded the courtroom and see his Aunt Min's among them, smiling her encouragement.
She, too, drifted away from the chilling courtroom with its judge and its petty officials.
Never before had a crowd in Lost Valley gone out from a courtroom in that strange and bodeful silence.
He talked until the courtroom was still as death and the Indian women behind her were rocking in unison of grief.
As Heney concluded, the packed courtroom burst into applause.
The courtroom was packed with detectives, agents and thugs employed by the various graft defendants.
The jury had not been in the courtroom when Heney was shot, and from the moment of the shooting had been shut away from the public.
After leaving Hebbard's courtroom on the afternoon of March 4, Ruef dropped out of sight as completely as though the earth had opened and swallowed him.
Judge Dunne, when finally found by Burns, objected as strongly as had Judge Lawlor to going to the courtroom that night, but finally yielded to the same representations as had been made to Judge Lawlor.
Murphy, one of Ruef's lawyers, testified that he had last seen Ruef just outside Hebbard's courtroom on Monday.
All parties at the meeting with Judge Dunne at the courtroom were agreed and the incident was quickly over.
As I made this statement I walked on out of the courtroomand someone stopped me somewhere between there and the entrance door of the building and Dr.
In its unaffected artlessness Mrs. McDonald's entry into the courtroom and her removal of her hat as she sank into her chair was an act of almost girlish grace.
Every man in the courtroom felt a choke in his throat, but if Mrs. McDonald felt it she gave no evidence of it.
The bickerings and the charges and the abuse that had made the courtroom like a pothouse brawl all day were forgotten.
There were wet eyes in the courtroom as the real Dora McDonald was brought to life in the closing address of Mr. O'Donnell.
With the courtroom packed to the doors and several hundred men and women struggling to gain admission, the actual trial of Mrs. Dora McDonald, widow of Mike McDonald, commenced.
Chapter XL When Cowperwood came into the crowded courtroomwith his father and Steger, quite fresh and jaunty (looking the part of the shrewd financier, the man of affairs), every one stared.
He now decided to have Cowperwood take the stand, and at the mention of his name in this connection the whole courtroom bristled.
After some three-quarters of an hour of dreary waiting the door leading into the courtroom proper opened and a bailiff stepped in.
Because of the urgency of court matters generally, it was decided to depart for the courtroom at nine o'clock.
Cowperwood, senior, and his other sons sought places in the courtroom proper.
One of the interested listeners and spectators at this point was Edward Malia Butler, who had just stepped in from another courtroom where he had been talking to a judge.
During the long and tedious arrangement of the day's docket and while the various minor motions of lawyers were being considered, this courtroom scene still retained interest for Cowperwood.
It was a very different sort of crowd that overflowed the courtroom that morning from that which had so boldly flocked to the trial as if it were to make a Roman holiday of justice.
Ordinarily prisoners were brought over the Bridge of Sighs in small droves and herded in the detention pens just outside the courtroom until their cases were called.
Skirting the line of southern windows through which The Tombs was visible, ran a steel wire screen, eight feet high, marking off a narrow chute that hugged the walls to a door at the rear of the courtroom leading to the detention pen.
Auguste heard the rear door of the courtroom slam and knew without looking around that Raoul had left.
Auguste heard mutterings of approval from around the courtroom and a loud "Damned right!
Well," said Judge Cooper to the courtroom at large, "it seems the jury's a pretty fair distance from a verdict.
Surely you realize that your uncle and his cronies were planning to take you straight from the courtroom to the nearest tall tree if the court didn't sentence you to death.
The courtroom being not quite finished, the twelve jurymen sat on one side of the room in two pews carried over from the Presbyterian church.
He crossed the front of the courtroom to stand before the two rows of jurymen in their borrowed church pews.
If those twelve men sitting in church pews on the right side of the courtroomdecided they wanted to hang him, they would hang him even if their Jesus spirit himself came into the courtroom and told the truth about him.
The smell of fresh-cut wood pervaded the courtroom on the first floor of the village hall, as it did Auguste's cell.
This courtroom is full of people who've seen loved ones stabbed, shot, scalped, cut to pieces, burnt to ashes.
Flanked by the two blue-coated corporals, Greenglove and Otto Wegner started side by side toward the courtroom door, Wegner's peg leg thumping on the plank floor.
It was nearly noon and I had had no food offered me since the sandwiches our friends brought us in the courtroom at noon the day before.
As she came out of the courtroom she met her other lawyer, Mr. Van Voorhis, and told him what had been done.
The courtroom was crowded, many prominent men being present, among them ex-President Fillmore.
Compare such a courtroom scene with the floral games of the Toulouse of long ago, and the legendary origin of the golden violet.
The courtroom was crowded by an excited mob, and the judge took occasion to harangue the prisoner, denouncing his conduct in the most vehement manner.
They requested me to call at their courtroom the next morning at the opening of the court, and they would have me admitted to the practice of law in their court and throughout the state.
It was further ordered that no one be allowed to leave the courtroom under any circumstances.
Never in modern times had a Paris courtroom witnessed a scene like that which followed.
The courtroom was so still excepting for the low, spiritless voice of the woman, that one could hear the muffled sobs of one or two of the women in the room whose hearts were touched with the sorrowful story she was unfolding.
Five minutes later Stutterin' Andy walked out of thecourtroom a free man.
A sensation is rather like a client who has given his case to a lawyer and then has passively to listen in the courtroom to whatever account of his affairs, pleasant or unpleasant, the lawyer finds it most expedient to give.
In fact, Gardiner's magnanimity was the principal topic of discussion by the crowd which now stood in groups about the courtroom floor.
The preliminary hearing before a magistrate was held the following day, and the little courtroom was crowded to the doors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courtroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: court; courthouse; dock
