"Drumhead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the city of Baltimore and its streets and heights planted with cannon. The chief of police was arrested and imprisoned, the police board was suspended and the city brought under the rule of drumhead court-martial. The writ of habeas corpus was suspended by Federal authorities in a free and sovereign State whose Legislature had proclaimed its neutrality in the sectional conflict. Blank warrants were issued by military officers and the house of every ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat[Fr]; le droit du plus fort[Fr]; argumentum baculinum[obs3][Lat]. illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister. trover and conversion[Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony. [person who violates the law] outlaw, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... editorial parent was replete with volumes upon subjects which would have filled a Bolshevik with disgust. Briefly, if ever Trotzky had become Commissar of the Soviet of Manhattan, Miss Althea and those like her would have been the first candidates for a drumhead court-martial. ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train |
