Sat as Commissioner to prorogue Parliament.

But to do this it was necessary to prorogue the Chamber until the operations were concluded, and this course was opposed in the cabinet; Saracco, the Minister of Public Works, threatening to resign if a further prorogation was decreed.

The Ministry refused to resign, and the Mikado prorogued the Diet for a week to think things over.

Yielding at lastsince they gained nothing save a respite from punishmenthaving prorogued the assembly, and given orders that their march should be proclaimed for the following day, at daybreak he gave the signal for departure by sound of trumpet.

This right once existed also in Massachusetts; but when the old charter was swept away in 1684, and replaced by a new one in 1691, the King was given power to appoint the governor, who could summon, dissolve, and prorogue the legislature at his pleasure.

I came to this island with my wife and children to serve your Majesty, but I found it a prey to incredible violences...." Cervantes was well received at first, and the city officials asked the emperor to prorogue his term of office, but as Bishop Bastidas said of the islanders, it was not in their nature to be long satisfied with any governor, and the next year they clamored for his "residencia."

In the following example, it seems to denote nothing more than the open or long sound of the preceding vowel e: "That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour, Even till a lethe'd dulness.