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Usage examples of gavel.

Reversing his gavel, he pointed across the room to a V-angle in the end partition, indicating that Fleech was to be taken there.

They could name them--Skiddaw and Saddleback, Helvellyn and Fairfield, Langdale Pike and the Gavel, Seatallan and Haycock, and through that circle of grey listening hills they could see the trumpeters moving.

Having gaveled that enterprising young woman into her clothing and out of his courtroom, Judge Blick had settled down to year after year of ordinary drunks, thieves, wife beaters, non-supportive ex-husbands, traffic-ticket scofflaws and Army deserters, with nothing ever to attract his attention.

Princess Cruise liner trying to return from Bermuda, the final bell ring of the New York stock exchange, the last clap of the gavel suspending Congress eight months ago.

Lodge, a bespectacled gentleman farmer with a cherubic face and handsome gray wavy hair, rapped the gavel.

Voices rippled across the small gray room until the judge banged her gavel and jolted Broyles into action.

Mason Broyles restrained his client, but the courtroom boiled over even as Judge Achacoso banged her gavel again and again.

Judge Schor, disgusted, tapped his gavel loudly, and ordered the court cleared and the session adjourned until the next morning.

The bailiff rushed to restrain Park, and Judge Shaheen hammered his gavel to quell the anxious babble in the court-room.

He stood up and shouted for silence but failed to get it until he pounded a gavel on the desk.

A display set into the wall came to life, and Trecker took a gavel from a drawer and rapped it on the desk.

As Winterberry walked slowly to Ailim, Bucus towered over the table, waving his gavel at her.

The robe and the gavel do notwith rare exceptionsturn middle-level politicians, average lawyers, and ideologically extreme professors into justices of the highest caliber.

The picture frames, a crystal bud vase, an assortment of tiny bronze cats, millefleur paperweights, a walnut gavel with a bronze plate on the handle.

Skyler took a front-row seat and peered down from the balcony, just as the speaker gaveled the proceedings to order and asked for a voice vote.