"Appellant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... judgments were doubtless given, and, in all probability, most conscientiously; for we cannot but believe that the priests endeavoured beforehand to convince themselves by secret inquiry and a strict examination of the circumstances, whether the appellant were innocent or guilty, and that they took up the crossed or uncrossed stick accordingly. Although, to all other observers, the sticks, as enfolded in the wool, might appear exactly similar, those ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... kindness or his conscience. He puts himself upon a broad humanitarian ground, and asks that the typewritten author, who, he assumes, is "prominently before the public," shall answer certain questions to which the appellant owns that he has already received hundreds ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... cellara Quinque, Gutteribus quae et gaudes sunday-am abstingere frontem, Plerumque insidos solita fluitare liquore Tanglepedem quem homines appellant Di quoque rotgut, Pimpliidis, rubicundaque, Musa, O, bourbonolensque, Fenianas rixas procul, alma, brogipotentis Patricii cyathos iterantis et horrida bella, Backos dum virides viridis Brigitta remittit, Linquens, eximios celebrem, da, Virginienses Rowdes, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... praesulis splendida, sed in mediis deliciis ipse vulgaribus libentius utebatur atque hoc ipsum parcissime. Cena tam erat frugalis ut prope nulla esset. Vinum perquam 35 raro gustabat verius quam bibebat, contentus tenuissima cervisia quam illi vulgo biriam appellant. Eadem in cultu frugalitas. Nunquam holosericis utebatur nisi rem divinam peragens; adeo ut cum sub Caroli Caesaris et Regis Angliae conventum, qui fuit 40 ante annos, ni fallor, undecim Calecii, edicto Cardinalis Eboracensis non episcopi tantum ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... him go.—Please it your majesty, This is the day appointed for the combat; And ready are the appellant and defendant, The armourer and his man, to enter the lists, So please your highness to behold ...
— King Henry VI, Second Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]
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