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Usage examples of milne.

Once her eyes adjusted, Nina said hello to a number of them: Judge Milne, who was rumored to be considering retirement, Bill Galway, the new mayor of South Lake Tahoe, and a few former clients.

His bailiff, Deputy Kimura, had toured the courtroom, meticulously collecting bubble gum and newspaper litter before Milne came in.

Judge Milne said, looking down through his half-glasses at the file on his desk.

She told Milne that she knew little of these transactions because she knew little about what was going on at Markov Enterprises.

His robe billowing behind him like a kite tail, Milne disappeared behind his partition.

One feminist publication had brought out a noisy contingent of rabble-rousers who sat near Riesner, trying to engage him in dialog, but Judge Milne imposed silence in his court with a slight raising of the eyebrow.

Riesner and accepted a scolding from Milne for arguing the law in her opening statement.

He asked the judge for a one-day continuance, but all he got was a bruise and some shaking up, so Milne said no.

She had figured out that Milne tended to let in somewhat more than he had to under the strict rules of evidence.

Thousands of subtle distinctions, derived from thousands of cases over hundreds of years, flowed from each statement Milne made now, and the jury would hear only the one-syllable version.

The instructions were written in the plainest English possible, but many of the words and concepts were still new to the jurors and looks of incomprehension flitted across their faces as Milne went on in a voice that never varied and never emphasized one instruction over another.

Nina crossed her fingers on her lap and also waited for Milne with an eagerness so extreme it felt painful.

Instead, Judge Milne delivered a stinging lecture to Nina in open court, widely quoted in the media, that made her red to the roots of her hair, beamed Jeffrey Riesner up to the moon, and yanked out the last shreds of her self-confidence.

That air of genteel poverty which her predecessor, Lilias Milne, had had in common with most of her kind was completely lacking.

It was too long ago for me to remember the arrival of Lilias Milne, but I was sure she had not been brought here by the family carriage.