"An officer who was in his tent near by came out and ordered me to be put under guard in one of the guard tents, where I was kept until next morning, when I was put 'in arrest.' Wilson was taken to the hospital, where he stayed two or three weeks, and as soon as he returned to duty he was also placed in arrest. This was made the subject for a court-martial, and that court-martial will form the subject of my next communication.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
After the proclamation of martial law General Botha marshalled the loyal Boers throughout the country. These loyal Burghers, taking advantage of the presence of martial law, committed all kinds of excesses against loyal coloured civilians. These atrocities not only took place away in the Backveld, but sometimes in Capetown and Kimberley, the centres of African civilization; there black men were frequently tied to the wagon-wheels and lashed by the loyal Boers, and some of these coloured victims, I am told, have been cruelly done to death.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall; which the Duke of York did give ear to, and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court- martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of captains to their under-officers for the time to come.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
Surveyor General, Augustus Alt, Esq. Commissary of Stores and Provisions, Andrew Miller, Esq. Assistant Commissary, Mr. Zechariah Clarke. Provost Martial, who acts as Sheriff of Cumberland County, Mr. Henry Brewer. Peace Officer, Mr. James Smith.英文原著 · 《A Complete Account of the Settlement》
Thirdly, that it is the nurse of abuse, infecting us with many pestilent desires, with a syren sweetness, drawing the mind to the serpent's tail of sinful fancies; and herein, especially, comedies give the largest field to ear, as Chaucer saith; how, both in other nations and ours, before poets did soften us, we were full of courage, given to martial exercises, the pillars of manlike liberty, and not lulled asleep in shady idleness with poets' pastimes.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
" That would surely be a little harsh," I pleaded. "After all, they are not under martial law, though I suppose two or three of them have commissions in the Yeomanry."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Court-martial, schmort-martial, Leslie Winkle is the fifth girl I've ever had sex with.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》