In Paris the Protestant coterie is very rich.

Madame de Balbi still ruled the Count de Provence; Madame de Polastron was the presiding genius of the coterie of the Count d'Artois.

Her husband himself, the great Capitan Toringoy,a transformation of the name Domingo,the happiest man in the district, without other occupation than to dress well, eat, loaf, and gossip, while his whole family worked and toiled, had not gone to join his coterie, but was listening between fear and emotion to the hair-raising news of the lank Chichoy.

good fellow, jolly fellow; bon enfant [Fr.], bawcock^. social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company.

On the one hand this catastrophe had brought to light the utterly corrupt and pernicious character of the ruling oligarchy, their incapacity, their coterie-policy, their leanings towards the Romans.

" Shakespeare did not write for a coterie: yet he produced some works of considerable subtlety and profundity.

Ibsen did not write for a coterie, though special and regrettable circumstances have made him, in England, something of a coterie-poet.

Ibsen did not write for a coterie, though special and regrettable circumstances have made him, in England, something of a coterie-poet.

With respect to the latter coterie, its influence was vastly augmented by the assassination of Pietro Buonaventuri in 1572.

They were quite a little coterie by themselves.

From that time on, she and her coterie of young friends showed me many delicate attentions.

The Wordsworths were the originals of the Lake coterie, as we have seen.

"The Richmond Theatre at that time attracted all literary people's attention, while a Coterie of Gentlemen and Noblemen and Ladies entertained themselves with getting up Plays, and acting them at the Duke of Richmond's house, Whitehall.

Each as he entered bowed profoundly three times, as a salute to majesty, and then attached himself to his own little clique or coterie, to gossip in a low voice over the news, the weather, and the plans of the day.

Around her studio in a street off the Champs Elysees she gathered a coterie of kindred souls.

" In the meantime, the anxious coterie in the château were waiting eagerly for the return of the searchers.

Hence the name of that notable coterie of Whigs which included Addison and Dick Steele, Congreve and His Grace of Devonshire.[A]

What a court and coterie of "princes," "dukes," "knights" and "ladies" those stables containedcreatures that would not have dishonored higher names by wearing them!

He is delicate, refined, acute, but his thoughts were fostered in the hothouse of a coterie, and have none of the salt and sapid flavour that comes to more masculine spirits from active contact with the world.

In the latter city she met Jean Ingelow, Frances Power Cobbe, John Stuart Mill, George Lewes, and others, who had known of the brilliant Concord coterie.

SWETCHINE, MADAME, a Russian lady, Sophie Soymanof, born at Moscow, who married General Swetchine, and, after turning Catholic, became celebrated in Paris during 1817-51 as the gracious hostess of a salon where much religious and ethical discussion went on; plain and unimposing in appearance, she yet exercised a remarkable fascination over her "coterie" by the elevation of her character and eager spiritual nature (1782-1857).

These on dits are, fortunately for my plans, only known among my coterie.

From about the year 1844 Bismarck seems to have become very intimate with this religious coterie; his friend Moritz v. Blankenburg had married Thadden's daughter and Bismarck was constantly a visitor at Triglaff.

" "The editor of my paper," declared the newspaper business manager to a little coterie of friends, "is a peculiar genius.

He did not actually fleece them himself, he had too little worldly wisdom for that; but he was the decoy of a coterie of Nyms, Pistols, and Bardolphs, who gathered up the spoil of these and any unwary youth who came to Rockpier in the wake of an invalid, or to 'see life' at a fashionable watering- place.