"Coroner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The coroner tried faithfully to locate the blame. But as Jacobs was unarmed and was shot from the front, and the stranger had only one bullet in his revolver and was shot from behind, and as nobody lost nor gained by not untangling the mystery, the affair after a nine days' complete threshing, ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... the Forth, close to the end of the pier. In the Zoological Gardens a specimen of the common seal proved for months a great source of attraction by its mild nature, and its singular form and activity. It soon died, and, had a coroner's jury returned a verdict, it would have been "Death from the hooks swallowed with the fish" daily provided. We have heard seal-fishers describe the great rapidity of the growth of seals in the Arctic seas. They seem in about ...
— Heads and Tales • Various
... vaudeville turn and shouted: "Say what you please, I notify the coroner! Hosley killed his wife so that he might marry my daughter; I have had detectives out, so I know and ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... Burghley, and the tale has since become so interwoven with classic and legendary fiction, as well as with more authentic history, that the phantom of the murdered Amy Robsart is sure to arise at every mention of the Earl's name. Yet a coroner's inquest—as appears from his own secret correspondence with his relative and agent at Cumnor—was immediately and persistently demanded by Dudley. A jury was impaneled—every man of them a stranger to ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... coroner's inquest, and wondering how the judge will sum up. She met my eyes, and I held up my hands. If I hadn't I ...
— The Observations of Henry • Jerome K. Jerome
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