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Usage examples of draft.

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

Holy Tribunal presented Galileo its draft text of an abjuration for him to speak aloud.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

It might have been a draft, Alec reasoned, taking a second glance around.

When an administrative agency engages in a legislative function, as, for example, when, in pursuance of statutory authorization, it drafts regulations of general application affecting an unknown number of people, it need not, any more than does a legislative assembly, afford a hearing prior to promulgation.

The carracks had too deep a draft to bring them in the way that those bedamned galleys had run up the beach.

At dessert Calsabigi begged me to give him my opinion of a scheme he had drafted, the aim of which was to bring in a sum of two million crowns, so that the credit of the lottery might remain secure.

Ridgeson had called, asking for background and clarification on some points, and a copy of the rough draft of the booklet had been sent to him.

I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.

I, for example, have been forced to draft counter-legislation for bribery at the curule elections.

Plebsand Corneliusinto agreeing that Gaius Piso himself should draft the new bribery law.

So edition 1824, which is supported by the Bodleian manuscript,--both the cancelled draft and the revised version: cf.

HAD sent me a letter and a certified bank draft: instantly cashable money.

It is in the form of a draft, cashable in Sydney and-was Intending to display the draft, in proof of his words, Henry felt in the pocket of his coat and found it empty.

Miss Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace, the one girl I thought had friend potential, turned out to be a Manhattan celebutante hoping to gain credibility by slumming at Pineville High for a marking period or two, then writing a book about it, which was optioned by Miramax before she completed the spell check on the last draft, and will be available in stores nationwide just in time for Christmas.