Such a right had been so long unclaimed, that everybody had forgotten it was a right at all.

Sir Ralph and his clerk laid their venerable heads together for some minutes, before they could come to any conclusion on the subject.

At last the sheriff rose.
"I am bound to say, that, though very uncommon, this proceeding is not illegal." "Not illegal ?" almost screamed Richard Brithwood.
"Not illegal.

I therefore wait to hear Mr.Halifax's nomination.

Sir, your candidate is, I hope, no democrat ?" "His political opinions differ from mine, but he is the only gentleman whom I in this emergency can name; and is one whom myself, and I believe all my neighbours, will be heartily glad to see once more in Parliament.