Have you agreed on your chancellor, gentlemen? was the first question of the Judge. The foreman, called in Scotland the chancellor of the jury, usually the man of best rank and estimation among the assizers, stepped forward, and, with a low reverence, delivered to the Court a sealed paper, containing the verdict, […]

Act seven, scene three, take two.

Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Ostrich Alliance.