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death warrant Law the official authorization for carrying out a sentence of death How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the hush which followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer. As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go. Because doing so would simply be signing the death warrant of Cornelius and John de Witt. |
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