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... order." Agreeing under duress to resume the session the following day, the judge ordered an adjournment. But being unwilling, on mature reflection, to permit a mockery of the court and a travesty of justice to be staged under threat and intimidation, he returned that night to his home in Granville and left the court adjourned in course. Enraged by the judge's escape, the Regulators took possession of the court room the following morning, ...

— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... was that all that had happened was a theatrical performance staged to scare any soldiers who were tempted to indiscipline; a performance which included shooting a man with blanks. To keep the operation secret from the rank and file, our chief had formed the firing squad of sous-officiers, to whom he had issued the blank ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... in "The Freshman Full-Back" is that of character. The action has real dramatic quality and is staged with the local color of a college contest. But the great value of the action is ethical, for it shows that one may "wrest victory from defeat" and that it is a shameful thing to be ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... the theater that evening, the man and his sweetheart, and by chance stumbled upon a well-staged comic opera, with good music and brilliant and picturesque although occasionally scanty costumes. On the way down the son told the mother of how in Detroit, way back in the sixties, he had seen for the first ...

— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... said to have written two verse dramas before he was twenty-five, neither of which was ever staged. One, La expulsin de los moriscos, has disappeared. The other, El hombre fuerte, was published in part by Eduardo de Luston in 1902. (See Bibliography.) It appears from the extracts to be a character play with strong romantic elements. ...

— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos

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