Every student, including the invalid, was present in the study-hall.

The entire faculty sat in judgment.

The president opened the meeting with a severe lecture, during which he quoted that it "was better that ten guilty ones should escape rather than that one innocent person should suffer." He called urgently upon the guilty ones to stand up and declare themselves.

His invitation was not accepted.
"Now boys, you know that it is a strict dormitory rule that no one there shall speak above a whisper.

The noise you made last night was heard distinctly in the village a mile away.