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On a cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only reduction of Comrade Yagoda's power seemed to be in transferring to Soviet courts the Ogpu's right to pronounce sentence of Death.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
These, as Herodotus tells us, were chosen men, who had to pronounce sentence for the Persians, and explain the customs of the fathers; and "everything was brought before them."
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max
