Everybody was there and W. pointed out to me the celebrities of all the coteries.

Switzerland is little fitted for him; the gossip and the cabals of those Anglicised coteries would torment him, as they did before.

She did not accommodate her opinions to meet the exigencies of different coteries, nor was she addicted to compromise.

Thou art too modest to raise this doubt of a meeting that occupied the coteries for a month, as it had been a victory of the powers!

I did not, however, take part in their intrigues, nor join in their political coteries; but I had a magazine of one hundred stand of arms in the house, when everything was ripe for revolta curse on Carignan's imbecility!

" By this remark, which savours very strongly of a species of censure that is much in fashion in the coteries of that Great Emporium, which it is the taste and pleasure of its people to term a commercial emporium, especially among elderly ladies, the reader will at once perceive that the deacon was a federalist, which was somewhat of a novelty in Suffolk, thirty years since.

"For my own part," she wrote to Lady Mar, "I have some coteries where wit and pleasure reign, and I should not fail to amuse myself tolerably enough, but for the dd dd quality of growing older every day, and my present joys are made imperfect by fears of the future."

"I vow, cried sir Charles, I am acquainted with all the coteries in town, and never met with any thing like her.

Next, what subsisted of society was fragmentary, and was formed by small isolated groups or coteries, pretty homogeneously composed, or, when not so as to rank and station, rendered homogeneous by community of suffering.

Absolute freedom of election in fact turned to the advantage of such coteries far more than of the electing body.

Where coteries and canvassing flourish as they did in the Rome of that age, men are chary of forfeiting the reciprocal services of their fellows or the favour of the multitude by stern words and impartial discharge of official duty.

His vehement attacks provoked numerous enemies, and he lived in declared and irreconcilable hostility with the most powerful aristocratic coteries of the time, particularly the Scipios and Flaminini; he was publicly accused forty-four times.

In the meantime its popularity and its assured position were beginning to be assailed in the coteries by the work of two new poets.

The main stream flowing through the publishers and booksellers, conned by critics and coteries, recognized as the national literature, is commonly only the largest of several channels of thought.

Here immense sums are won and lost; but political and literary coteries, formerly unknown, daily lessen the numbers of the votaries of fortune.

They can generalize upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they cannot point out the details of the defects, or in what the beauty of a picture consists; and to prove this, only let the reader visit the Exhibition at Somerset House, and watch the little critical coteries that collect round the most attractive paintings.

villagewhat like it is now, I know not; but what I detest in the great folks of your time, is, that insane selfishness which makes them prefer any place, however abominable, where they can herd together in their little exquisite coteries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the noblest domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less exposed to the company of people not exactly belonging to their own particular sect.

Northcote, nothing awed by the splendid coteries thus assembled, maintained his opinions upon all subjects that were discussed,and his independence obtained for him general respect, though one pronounced him a cynicanother an eccentricanother a humoristanother a free-thinkerand the prince, with manly taste, in the nautical phrase, dubbed him a dd honest, independent, little old fellow.

Yet there were coteries in Paris which thrust the Thing away from them as much as possible, and tried to pretend that art was still alive, and that philosophy was untouched by these brutalities.

de Sévigné's are for the greater part confined to the gossip of the coteries of Paris.

"The point is just to get on amicably together; we won't have any cliques or coteries."

But Keith didn't like battles except in books, and mostly the pauses broke up the class communities into small coteries or pairs.

Social feuds raged in the Academy coteries between the collegians and the natives on account of the superior success of the former in flirtation.

In that lonely wild, and beneath that lowly roof, there abode a spirit able and worthy to lead the coteries of the great, and to preside over the councils of statesmen, and (to rise in climax) the drawing-room of the grande monde.

"For some years this distinguished poet lived at the neighbouring village of Mayfield; and there was no end to the pleasantries and anecdotes that were floating about its coteries respecting him; no limit to the recollections which existed of the peculiarities of the poet, of the wit and drollery of the man.