The assize was a strong response to a crime-wave then being experienced and gave additional powers to the authorities by creating new offences that a judge could examine, including arson and forgery, and set down new and severe punishments that could be handed down, including the removal of an offender's right hand.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

It did something to clear the ground, but it erected no striking new structure ; ;

it did not even provide the architect's plan for anything new.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

The audience did not think much of the new pastor, and what the new pastor thought of the audience he did not dare at the time to say.

Thus a new pattern of days began to develop, for Granny Albright did not die.

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

Now did Welch truly become the man of the hour, and everything that followed in the procedure of Justice was a new triumph for him.

Since the complicated process of establishing new communes and reviewing the rudimentary plan left by the French did not even begin until the fall of 1957, this goal appears somewhat ambitious.

I cite it as evidence that he did not develop through new styles as he grew older ( as Yeats did ), but that he simply learned to use better what he already had.

Even if it did not, how would this little world of gentle people cope with its new reality of grenades and submachine guns??

And Mr. Skyros didn't like Angie, but what with Prettyman and three of his boys inside, and not likely to come out -- And Angie such a valuable salesman, Prettyman said -- All the nuisance and danger of getting in touch with practically a whole new bunch of boys -- Why did everything have to happen at once??

`` But it did destroy the natural controls of a borer and released a new plague that wrecked a sugar cane crop '', he said.

Farmers are so eager for new machinery that they're haggling less over prices than they did a year ago, dealers report.

How far and in what fashion did it modify the new nation which was emerging in the midst of the forces shaping the revolutionary age??

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

The snake slid slowly and with great care from the new ridge the plow had made, into the furrow and did not go any further.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

The unstable political situation there represents one reason new plants shy away from the East Side.

a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;

that obligations of status that were inconsistent with the new politics and the new economics be done away with.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

A program of Lay Visitation Evangelism can end in dismal defeat with half the new members drifting away unless practical plans and strenuous efforts are made to keep them in the active fellowship.

If then any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ( literally, `` He is a new creation ), the former things have passed away ; ;

The goal of the Annales was to undo the work of the Sorbonnistes, to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.

It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.

They rented the apartment of an American man who was away for the summer, and Nin came across a number of French paperbacks: " One by one, I read these books, which were completely new to me.

Henrik and Anne, happy together, run away to start their new life.

Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.

Traditional archaeology has not been able to unequivocally match individual archaeological sites as belonging to the Bastarnae, whilst " new " archaeology has moved away from trying to ascribe material remains to distinct " ethnic " groupings.

The other possibility was Fred Hoyle's steady state model in which new matter would be created as the galaxies moved away from each other.

The new government did away with the romanization of the Khmer language that the French colonial administration was beginning to enforce and officially reinstated the Khmer script.

Charles I ’ s haste to make peace with France on the terms most beneficial to him meant that the new North American gains would be bargained away in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( 1632 ).

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

A senior source from Republican Sinn Féin said: " We would see them purported new leadership as just another splinter group that has broken away.

" 65: 17 The author of Revelation has a corresponding vision: " I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.

Through volcanic activity due to thermal expansion this continent broke and the new continents drifted away from each other because of further expansion of the rip-zones, where the oceans now lie.