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Updated: May 27, 2025

Originally coroners held small courts of inquiry upon cases of wreckage, destructive fires, or sudden death, but in course of time their jurisdiction became confined to the last-named class of cases.

John Fiske - Civil Government in the United States Considered with: Some Reference to Its Origins

And, indeed, the last-named ones needed no mention, for they were at once put to use and spoke for themselves. "Land sakes, children! stop that hullabaloo-lam!" exclaimed Mrs. Simpson. "How can I thank these kind people if you keep up that noise! Indeed, I can't thank you, anyway," she added, as the drums were quiet for a moment. "It's so kind of you, and so unexpected.

Carolyn Wells - Marjorie's New Friend

The Place de la Concorde was surrounded by pyramids of fire and lights arranged to resemble orange-trees; the Champs Elysees, the Garde Meuble, the Temple of Glory, the Tuileries, the Palace of the Corps Legislatif, were all ablaze. This last-named building, with a hastily constructed front to show how it was to be finished, represented on that occasion the Temple of Hymen.

baron Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand - The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise

An intelligent resident of Colombo estimates that there are fifty thousand acres of the last-named tree under profitable cultivation at the present time.

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Pearl of India

I might hunt you two fellows about all night, from Arthur's to the Arlington from the Arlington to White's from White's to the Carlton from the Carlton back to St. James's Street and never run into you at all, unless I had the luck to find you drinking gin and soda at Pratt's." Tom Ryfe, belonging only to the last-named of these resorts, looked gratified.

G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville - M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."

The two last-named were relatively newly-raised regiments, but were composed of fine soldierly-looking fellaheen. The divisional brigade and battalion commanders and staff were: British division, Major-General Gatacre commanding; staff: Major Robb, D.A.G.; Captain R. Brooke, A.D.C.; Lieuts.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan

So it was with the Belleville rooters; while, of course, the natives were certain the prize was already as good as won by Hugh Morgan; or, it might happen to be, Horatio Juggins, "Just" Smith, or possibly Nick Lang, the last-named looking ever so confident, as he leaned over nearly double in his favorite crouch, his fingertips in contact with the ground, and his knees bent.

Donald Ferguson - The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path

Pickerel of six or seven pounds were common; and a profusion of black bass-spotted trout in all the creeks; sheep-heads and suckers ad libitum, the last-named being the worst fish of Canada. George thought the success far too uniform for sport; Arthur hardly cared to call the killing of God's creatures 'sport' during some time back.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement

In the last-named year the earth for miles round quaked with the convulsive throes of the deeply disturbed mountain, and vast quantities of volcanic dust were hurled high into the air, sufficient to make it dark at midday for many leagues around. The roofs of distant Manila were covered with volcanic dust and ashes.

Charles Morris - The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire

Ascending the Euphrates, to Samosata, and receiving as he advanced the submission of various semi-independent dynasts and princes, he took possession of Satala and Elegeia, Armenian cities on or near the Euphrates, and establishing himself at the last-named place, waited for the arrival of Parthamasiris.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: Parthia : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.