Oh, I can swim, too, I'm tellin' you,like a fish--I swum, one Sunday, from the Narrow Gauge Pier to
Sessions' Basin, an' that's miles--but I never seen anything like that guy in the swimmin' line.
He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial, and the coming round of the
Sessions. He had broken two ribs, they had wounded one of his lungs, and he breathed with great pain and difficulty, which increased daily.
'whether the Clerkinwell
Sessions will not find themselves in the wrong box before they have done with me.'
A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the
Sessions, Mr.
'and I believe so still,' adds she, 'but it is natural to me now, I don't disturb myself about it.' 'I suppose,' says I, 'you are in no danger of what is to follow?' 'Nay,' says she, 'for you are mistaken there, I assure you, for I am under sentence, only I pleaded my belly, but I am no more with child than the judge that tried me, and I expect to be called down next
sessions.' This 'calling down' is calling down to their former judgment, when a woman has been respited for her belly, but proves not to be with child, or if she has been with child, and has been brought to bed.
Parliament says, "If any man, woman, or child, does anything again any one of them fifty acts, that man, woman, or child, shall be worked off by Dennis." George the Third steps in when they number very strong at the end of a
sessions, and says, "These are too many for Dennis.
The second clause of the second section of the second article empowers the President of the United States "to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other OFFICERS of United States whose appointments are NOT in the Constitution OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, and WHICH SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY LAW." Immediately after this clause follows another in these words: "The President shall have power to fill up all VACANCIES that may happen DURING THE RECESS OF THE SENATE, by granting commissions which shall EXPIRE AT THE END OF THEIR NEXT
SESSION." It is from this last provision that the pretended power of the President to fill vacancies in the Senate has been deduced.
At one time, about five years after the disappearance, these stories of the supernatural became so rife, or through some attesting circumstances seemed so important, that some of Marion's most serious citizens deemed it well to investigate, and to that end arranged for a night
session on the premises.
SOME Members of a Legislature were making schedules of their wealth at the end of the
session, when an Honest Miner came along and asked them to divide with him.
A DISTINGUISHED Naturalist was travelling in Australia, when he saw a Kangaroo in
session and flung a stone at it.
Neither House, during the
Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the
session of the Royal Geographical Society, No.