juryman
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See -man.
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Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson was accepted as No. 2 juryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind.
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
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.
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Warriner stuck to his guns, and he was backed up by a juryman named Orton, a well-to-do farmer and an unusually intelligent man, as it seemed to me.
From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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 same work, he railed against man's injustice in a deceptively quiet couplet: "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,/And wretches hang that jurymen may dine."
From Time Magazine Archive
"And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet now he had a new courage and a new hope that distilled jewels from his lips, which almost caused the degraded jurymen to blench.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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