44 Words to use with councils

week?that it will be necessary to light our council-fire, and to smoke the pipe of many welcomes?"

Most of the members were soon called away from the council-chamber to the field.

And just then Nicholas crawled out of the tunnel-like opening leading into the council-house.

But it was reserved for the recent convention to bring together within the compass of a single council-room the surviving leaders of the period of conflict to work together for the making of a united state.

W. However, he went instantly to Lord Salisbury, who was a little embarrassed, as that negotiation had been kept secret, which didn't seem quite faireverything else having been openly discussed around the council table.

When M. d'Agoust entered the council hall and demanded his prisoners, there was a great uproar.

Heywood, slightly lifting his chin, stared at the speaker coldly, down the length of their council-board.

From "The Story of the Haldane Missions": "The Kaiser laughingly remarked that he had better have the high chair (in which the Kaiser usually sat at his council meetings).

Mr. Grigby thought it his duty to declare, that no privy council report, or other mode of examination, could influence him.

Fortunately, the Boy had remembered to "ketch" that essential, and his little offering was laid before the council-men.

The desire of the kings to enlist valiant Swiss favored the avidity of the council lords, as did the wish of the young men to get booty.

The king wished to know whether in any part, in any corner of the kingdom, the people were restless, and what was the cause of their restlessness; or whether there had happened any disturbance to which it was necessary to draw the attention of the council-general, and other similar matters.

On the same day my brother and the party who had separated on the council-ground also arrived.

The council hath long ago forbidden the banns.

Gibb'ring, they come from ancient tombs, Stealing from low sepulchral glooms, From vault and charnel house they rise, With bloodless cheek, and hollow eyes, They point the finger,shake the head, And hold strange converse round my bed; Together there, in council meet, With coffin, pall and winding sheet, Seem waiting, with their dread array, To bear my lifeless form away.

In 1902 it made these voters eligible to all municipal offices, and since then a fourth of the council members of Reykjavik, the capital, have been women.

It is high time that somebody was coming to me with council news if things are like this.

If they are Pawnees, we'll go up to them at once; if not, we'll hold a council o' war on the spot.

In this primitive council-place chieftains were chosen, who, on swearing to maintain the laws and oppose the common enemy, were invested with a limited and temporary authority.

Have the charity to send a council-post with intelligence; the post does not suit us in the country.

" Indeed the council records bear ample evidence of the emergency of that occasion.

ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, an ecclesiastical council representative, or accepted as representative, of the Church universal or Catholic.

[Sidenote: Ptolemy's council resolve to murder Pompey.]

We know that the decision of the Council of Clermont about the Crusades was believed to have been instantly known through Christendom, and that the great cry, God willeth it! which shook the council-roof, was echoed from hill to hill, and at once struck awe and astonishment to the hearts of remotest lands.

But it is with a manifest consciousness of the ludicrous that these industrials now do their little drama of the war-dance and the oration and the council-smoke.

44 Words to use with  councils