There was formerly an estate in the family of her father, but being a Dissenter, and a zealous parliamentarian, he was so very much persecuted at the restoration, that he was laid under a necessity to fly into Ireland, and his estate was confiscated; nor was the family of our authoress's mother free from the severity of those times, they being likewise parliamentarians.

For the rest, any feeling of nervous curiosity with which the artisan parliamentarians were at first regarded soon wore off.

"You see, Mr. Viviani, it isn't one of those execrable parliamentarians who makes these complaints.

Butt had been a polite parliamentarian, reverencing the courtesy of debate and at heart loving the British Constitution.

The report of the committee on organization in the afternoon made George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, a most skillful parliamentarian ready in decision and felicitous in his phrases, the permanent presiding officer.