human
Riding the hatch, or
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(a half-door often seen at small country shops). Any man formerly accused of immorality was brought before a select number of his fellow parishioners, and by them put to sit astride the
human
which was shaken violently backwards and forwards: if he fell into the house he was judged innocent; but out on the road, guilty. When any one has been brought before his superiors and remanded he is still figuratively said
gpt
Hands are washed, as by Pontius Pilate, to clear a person from crime, and to call any one