The Peers were split up into two parties, those who accepted Lord Lansdowne's pronouncement that, as they were no longer "free agents," there was nothing left for them but to submit to the inevitable, and those who desired to oppose the Bill to the last and force the creation of Peers.

Wilson was making pronouncements about the paintings on Parker's walls, mentioning painters Patrick had never heard of.

"I may be old-fashioned" he began and then threw the phrase from him; it was thus that Alberta, his sister, began her most offensive pronouncements.

It passes comprehension how we, who have known this Government, who have read the Viceregal pronouncement, how we who have known their determination not to give justice in the Punjab and the Khilafat matters, can gain any benefit by co-operation, constructive or obstructive, with this Government?

Until he received a definite pronouncement from the head-quarters of officialdom, he felt himself unable to settle down to any of the ordinary functions of life.

" It accorded with his mood of angry resentment against the earlier treachery of the Koreitza, but why he deputed its pronouncement to Sa'ad instead of taking it upon himself is not easy to discover.

They always approach me in a becomingly servile attitudecap or hat in handand await with obvious tension my weighty pronouncements.