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On trial   /ɑn trˈaɪəl/   Listen
On trial

adjective
1.
In the process of being tested or tried.





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... is now on trial in the Supreme Court, arising out of the following facts. A gentleman residing in Maryland had allowed an aged pair of his slaves, substantial though not legal freedom for several years. While thus living, a daughter was born to them, who grew up in the ...
— American Notes for General Circulation • Charles Dickens
... This was the sublimity of devotion to principle. For this he was arrested, imprisoned, and doomed to death. There is not a theologian who has ever maligned Thomas Paine that has the courage to do this thing. When Louis Capet was on trial for his life before the French convention, Thomas Paine had the courage to speak and vote against the sentence of death. In his speech I find the following ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll
... other," she continued, with a sudden added interest in her tone—"Why, that's the Englishman who had me turned off from the hotel in Washington. Don't you remember, I went there for a month on trial as telephone operator, just before the election? You remember why. That Englishman was always dropping in. Used to bring me flowers now and then, but I felt certain from the first he was suspicious. He got me turned off just as things ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a tedious process, for not only was the girl on trial, but the goat also, in accordance with the custom of the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... on trial by certain enemies. He had broken the law by keeping command of the army four months beyond the allotted time. He appealed to the people, with what result we can readily understand. He was acquitted by acclamation, and he and Pelopidas were immediately re-elected Boeotarchs (or ...
— Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris


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