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The earliest appearance of the idiom is in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of the Spanish novel Don Quixote.The protagonist is growing increasingly restive under the criticisms of his servant Sancho Panza, one of which is that "You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, 'Avant, black-browes'."
In Moulmein, the narrator, Orwell, writing in the first person, is a police officer during a period of intense anti-European sentiment. Although his intellectual sympathies lie with the Burmese, his official role makes him a symbol of the oppressive imperial power. As such, he is subjected to constant baiting and jeering by the local people. [2]
According to Thietmar, "the jeering enemy dragged his corpse into the burg." Henry ransomed his body and returned it to his homeland. There are no other historical references to Hemuzo [2] Henry was charged with carrying out the sentence of his cousin Werner for his actions, but Werner was murdered before justice could be served.
Penn State head football coach James Franklin walks off the field too boos and jeers after the Nittany Lions fell to Michigan, 24-15, in an NCAA football game at Beaver Stadium Saturday, Nov. 11 ...
A man who admitted killing his half-brother in a drunken confrontation on a street has been jailed for five years. Kyan McWhir, 31, fatally punched 52-year-old father-of-two John McWhir on Crown ...
30–60 years (sentence can exceed 60 years if there are aggravating circumstances; only an option if defendant was a juvenile) or life without parole Murder of a law enforcement officer Life without parole (if the defendant was a juvenile, a judge sets a term of 60 years)
The group comes to an inn where they stop to rest. The trampwoman continues to tease her lover by sitting next to Jeering John, and then sitting on his lap. Her lover begins to get angry and asks her if the baby she's carrying is his or Jeering John's. She nods to him as if the baby were Jeering John's in order to tease him more.
In ways that may be familiar to reformers today, government officials began to rethink incarceration policies toward addicts. Mandatory sentences fell out of favor, and a new federal law, the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, gave judges the discretion to divert a defendant into treatment.