Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The court of the sovereign's palace of Westminster, which had jurisdiction of personal actions arising within the limits of 12 miles around the palace, excepting the city of London. This court was instituted in the middle of the seventeenth century, and was abolished in 1849.
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Examples
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Through fane, and palace-court, and labyrinth mined 525
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Then will this fleck of dust be as the vast circle of the skies, this human place the palace-court of God, this spot of clay the Dayspring of the endless favours of the Lord of Lords.
A Compilation on Bahá’í Education Universal House of Justice
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Then will this fleck of dust be as the vast circle of the skies, this human place the palace-court of God, this spot of clay the dayspring of the endless favours of the Lord of Lords.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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Florida and Don Ippolito had paused in the pathway which parted at the fountain and led in one direction to the water-gate, and in the other out through the palace-court into the campo.
A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878
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Life being promised, the prior brought forth his charge, and a few days after Perkin was set in the stocks for a whole day, in the palace-court at Westminster.
Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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Fetching a whistle in with his breath, he unsheathed his sword, and seeing that Wilfrid had no weapon, he pushed him to a gate of the palace-court that had just cautiously turned a hinge.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Wilfrid had no weapon, he pushed him to a gate of the palace-court that had just cautiously turned a hinge.
Vittoria — Volume 8 George Meredith 1868
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Fetching a whistle in with his breath, he unsheathed his sword, and seeing that Wilfrid had no weapon, he pushed him to a gate of the palace-court that had just cautiously turned a hinge.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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While he was gone back into the house to preserve his work from injury and was giving the slaves, whom he had desired to follow him, instructions as to how it should be carried so as not to damage it, his master Papias came into the palace-court.
The Emperor — Volume 07 Georg Ebers 1867
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While he was gone back into the house to preserve his work from injury and was giving the slaves, whom he had desired to follow him, instructions as to how it should be carried so as not to damage it, his master Papias came into the palace-court.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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