What is "court-house"

Usage examples of "court-house".

Cantarini wishes to speak to you only as a private citizen, as he sends you word to call at his palace and not at the court-house.

Major Pitcairn laughed, and two soldiers, at his command, seized the pails and made haste to the court-house, followed by many more.

The court-house was finally exhausted by its visitor, who resumed her seat and submitted with beamish grace to praise.

Take note, ye prudent and pious souls, Of the cross--currents in life Which bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame Judge Somers How does it happen, tell me, That I who was most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese How does it happen, tell me, That I lie here unmarked, forgotten, While Chase Henry, the town drunkard, Has a marble block, topped by an urn Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical, Has sown a flowering weed?

Almost directly in front of him, but far off, the gilded dome of the court-house at Bonneville was glinting radiant in the first rays of the sun, while a few miles distant, toward the north, the venerable campanile of the Mission San Juan stood silhouetted in purplish black against the flaming east.

Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type.

I doubt whether even our public edifices—our capitols, state-houses, court-houses, city halls, and churches—ought to be built of such permanent materials as stone or brick.

Last winter I went over to Blountsville to a dance in the court-house.

The only gun in sight in the court-house was a short-barrelled Colt revolver stuck in the holster of the police officer who stood behind and a couple of feet to the right of me.

It also shone on the Formosa and on Oswald's Club, and the court-house where divorces came off a disassembly line, and on other places where people sought happiness.

While the executioner was burning the great books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were eagerly read by the unfortunate.

On January 2, 1935, the trial began in the Hunterdon County Court-house in Flemington, New Jersey, presided over by Judge Thomas W.

Look at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop, or a dwelling-house, and say what that thing really is before a true gaze, and they would all go to pieces in your account of them.

They jogged into the town, I say, through the crowds of white trash, and rode up to the court-house where Sevier was being tried for his life.

Stern on court-house, head on dead cottonwood above wood-yard, until you raise the first reef, then pull up square.