juryman
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jurymen
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See -man.
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Henry Hazlitt was the only juryman to name Joyce's Ulysses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson was accepted as No. 2 juryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any book, therefore, which so effectively as Mr. Wellman's awakens a citizen to his duties as a juryman, is important and destined to remain important.
From Time Magazine Archive
At times he would single out a single juryman, stop in front of him, gaze steadily into his face and direct his remarks for a minute or two to that one man alone.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019
In “The Rape of the Lock,” first published in 1712, Alexander Pope wrote this chilling couplet: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2012
In the two trials, 20 of the 24 jurymen believed Chambers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of those jurymen were threatened by suborned fellow-jurors--their tottering consciences deadened for awhile by drink; but they have woke to remorse in time.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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