What is "briefless"

Usage examples of "briefless".

Somerville, the briefless, held that in the absence of all data such conclusion was unjustifiable.

On Tuesday, the Briefless one entered the Club with a slow and stately step.

The Briefless one, entering the smoking-room, lifted a chair and let it fall again with a crash, and sitting down upon it, crossed his legs and rang the bell.

The Briefless one, muttering that the worst of mixing with journalists was that if you did not watch yourself, you fell into their ways, drank his whisky in silence.

Advertising Guide that, crossing the Park, he had seen the Briefless one leaning over the railings of Rotten Row, clad in a pair of new kid gloves, swinging a silver-headed cane.

Jack Herring and Somerville the Briefless went that night with Johnny and his sister to the theatre--and on other nights.

But she thought Somerville the Briefless even nicer, and later, under cross-examination, when Somerville was no longer Briefless, told Somerville so himself.

Denzil was a briefless barrister, who so far departed from the traditions of his brethren of the long robe as not to dwell within the purlieus of the Temple.

Inn, where he shared an office with a friend equally briefless and poor.

Victor and Colney had been champion duellists for the rosy and the saturnine since the former cheerfully slaved for a small stipend in the City of his affection, and the latter entered on an inheritance counted in niggard hundreds, that withdrew a briefless barrister disposed for scholarship from the forlornest of seats in the Courts.

But now he is simply a briefless barrister, without a friend in the world.

This herd of nobodies--younger sons with courtesy titles and empty pockets, ruined Guardsmen, briefless barristers--what was the use of telling Lady Maulevrier about such barren victories?

Rupert Carleton was still in the twenties, but he had been a briefless barrister for some years.

Does Mademoiselle Lapointe meet her young man, Antoine Bizard, who lives in the same building as the briefless lawyer Liotard?

But you can find plenty of briefless barristers always ready to put their finger in the political pie.