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One of those two-story cottages, as we should call them, in the ante-court of the Alcazar had for the student of Spanish life the special advantage of a lover close to a ground-floor window dropping tender nothings down through the slats of the shutter to some maiden lurking within.
William Dean Howells - Familiar Spanish Travels

In the event of their failing to decide, they appealed to the Court which met at the entrance to the ante-court. Failure in this Court was followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court of 71, where the matter was finally disposed of by a majority of votes. The Sanhedrin sat in a semicircle in order that the members might be able to see one another. No. 8 in order.
- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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