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Usage examples of prefect.

Messala Rufus tried to cast the lots to see which of the patrician prefects of each decury of ten senators would become the first Interrex, Bursa vetoed.

States had been troubled by divers ill-intentioned persons pretending to have received revelations from another World, and professing to produce demonstrations whereby they had instigated to frenzy both themselves and others, it had been for this cause unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millenary, special injunctions be sent to the Prefects in the several districts of Flatland, to make strict search for such misguided persons, and without formality of mathematical examination, to destroy all such as were Isosceles of any degree, to scourge and imprison any regular Triangle, to cause any Square or Pentagon to be sent to the district Asylum, and to arrest any one of higher rank, sending him straightway to the Capital to be examined and judged by the Council.

At first the place reminded him of Via Salaria in Rome, a mausoleum for Lucilius Peto, a wealthy military tribune and prefect of the smiths and the cavalry.

I am supposed to be cleaning out the narthex while Father Quine dines with the Aedile and Prefect Corin.

Governor Scapula that the acting prefect of the Ala Prima Thracum believes that his men can make a crossing of the river and hold it so that the legionaries will be able to cross downstream of our horses.

Let us suppose our ancient monarchy abolished, our independent hierarchy reduced to a stipendiary sect, the gentlemen of England deprived of their magisterial functions, and metropolitan prefects and sub-prefects established in the counties and principal towns, commanding a vigorous and vigilant police, and backed by an army under the immediate orders of a single House of Parliament.

As with thumbs unbent they glared, Till the prefect gave the signal That his life should not be spared.

If Mill, the dormitory prefect, was awake, the chuckle would make him speak, for Mill was of a suspicious nature, and believed that it was only his unintermitted vigilance which prevented the dormitory ragging all night.

I am also Prefect Extraordinary to the Aranea Spiders of the Dispersal.

In the first place I felt somebody lying in my bed, and in the second I saw the prefect, with a candle in his hand, coming along slowly and taking a survey of all the beds right and left.

Quintus Valerius Corvus, prefect of the Ala Quinta Gallorum - or I will be when it is fully formed.

Peripherally, he became aware of movement at the bridges, of Corvus crossing the upper bridge behind Galba, riding in a knot of prefects and tribunes, of the Praetorian Guard preparing to cross the central bridge on foot surrounding the mounted dazzle of gold and white that was the emperor.

Leaving Gunnar and Hnefi with the gate prefect to purchase entry disci for the others, I ran over to where the guardsmen stood at their post.

Gaius Antonius Hybrida for atrocities he committed while he was a prefect of cavalry under Sulla ten years ago.

Haslich alias De Lassa, but could not do so without seeing the Prefect and getting instructions.