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| 26 | 90 | View more quotes about first">First, let it be understood that the edifice that houses the black court is not large, but it does have a formidable, menacing aspect. |
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| 26 | 87 | Men have made us so. |
| 26 | 88 | We are no longer ours, but theirs. |
| 26 | 89 | I will recount an anecdote, or two, which, in their way, might shed some light on the nature of a black court. |
| 26 | 90 | First, let it be understood that the edifice that houses the black court is not large, but it does have a formidable, menacing aspect. |
| 26 | 91 | It is like a small fortress in the city, with high, dark walls, with a moat, a drawbridge, and a portcullis, a heavy, vertically barred, reinforced gate that may be raised or lowered by means of a windlass. |
| 26 | 92 | The court's position is isolated, in a sense, as, even within the city, it occupies an area of unplanted ground on all sides. |
| 26 | 93 | This area is several yards in width, and, as it is open, it affords no cover to any who might approach the court, and its moat. |