Famous quotes containing the words sentence and/or case:
“Let the jury consider their verdict, the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards.
Stuff and nonsense! said Alice loudly. The idea of having the sentence first!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“A womans whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopelessfor it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”
—Washington Irving (17831859)