...sprang to his legs and advanced to the front of the dock. To the dreadful question of the Judge, as to what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him? he made no answer, and his wild gaze and astonished features showed an almost...

...question much in the same tone as the judge who asks the prisoner at the bar, whether he has anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. " I don't know whether he ever said it or not," replied Massey, " I never asked him any questions about...

...qualities, is to be pitied. He hath been a star at which the world hath gazed ; but stars may fall." Raleigh was asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He replied : " My lord, my voice has grown weak by reason of sickness." Chief Justice. " Sir Walter,...

...camp, and in the ensuing August Major Sirr arrested him. His dying speech, upon being asked what had he to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, is altogether unequalled for eloquence and intensity in the annals of Irish forensic oratory. We defy...

...proved against him by a chain of clear and incomestible evidence. On being asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he addressed the court in a speech which occupied about twenty minutes in the delivery, in which he...

...spasm convulsed his features, and shook his frame. It passed away ; and his bearing and speech, when asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced according to law, was not without a certain calm dignity and power, whilst his tones, tremulous...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. " Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will! I was held a slave for the best...

...public virtue. After the usual formalities, he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." The judges, without r^oubt, supposed that he would probably make a solemn appeal, and pro» test, with...

...nationality of Poland, as it breathed in the gallant soul of the Irish patriot when summoned to speak out what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him, or as it is often heard in our day, in the public declamation of our violent Reformers...

...with great power of eloquence, as I then thought, a portion of Robert Emmett's reply to the question, "What he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ?" It was a favorite theme for our weekly declamations, and its author was to us a sort of demi-god....