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The King summons Elsa to answer the charge and decrees trial by ordeal of battle.
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Yet football's trial by ordeal is anything but over.
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The trial by ordeal was of various kinds.
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Warren Hastings has found, from Asiatic researches, that trial by ordeal was common among the Hindoos.
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Well, it's a trial by ordeal, and we're to see which of us can pass it.
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Leadership in modern democracy is subject to trial by ordeal more searing than anything else in public life.
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This practice was known as trial by ordeal, and plants used for the trials were called ordeal beans.
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At one time they attempted thus to suppress usury and trial by ordeal, which at other times they allowed.
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The trial by ordeal was abolished in this reign by order of council; a faint mark of improvement in the age.
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There was to be a trial by ordeal of battle, and while the duchess waited for the coming of a champion, lo!
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It is not uncommon for an accused person to challenge his accuser to a kind of trial by ordeal, at the local temple.
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Legislation rested with the Chiefs and trial by ordeal was common, but always so arranged that the result could be controlled by the judge.
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The above account of the unfortunate wife was called " trial by ordeal," of which Clarke gives a minute description in his commentaries.
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Trial by ordeal was abolished in this country in the year 1218.
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Several hours had passed since the end of the Trial by Ordeal.
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Trials by ordeal used to be very common among the natives.