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    conclave


    1. The conclave came forward to dine and to have their chins scratched


    2. substance, they met in secret conclave to discuss the issue and to


    3. She wondered what she was doing here at a conclave of many of the great scientists of history


    4. However, he was the only member of the Conclave who didn’t require further proof (Anon’s tale had been enough)


    5. Many of the other Elders closed in on their conversation, a few were even fellow members of the Conclave


    6. Miss Cornelia was up at Ingleside, holding agonized conclave with Anne and Susan, and Mary hoped that the session might be a long one, for it was all of two weeks since she had been allowed to revel with her chums in the dear valley of rainbows


    7. After the first shock Trask went cold, contributing only occasional sarcasm to this initial conclave


    8. Less than a month ago he had held a secret conclave here with a pirate crew


    9. The black vultures were already in conclave


    10. In the Citadel, in a chamber with a domed ceiling of carven jet, and the fretted arches of doorways glimmering with strange dark jewels, a strange conclave came to pass

    11. He stood in the gold-domed chamber where the kings held conclave and they beheld in amazement his haggard stare, the fear they had never guessed the mind of Orastes could hold


    12. 'And in the last conclave to which I accompanied him, understanding of his sorcery came to me at last, while the drums beat and the beast-like worshippers howled with their heads in the dust


    13. Aquilonian regiments were secretly brought to the borders of the marches, the Bossonian chiefs were invited to attend a great conclave, and, in the guise of an expedition against the Picts, bands of savage Shemitish soldiers were quartered among the unsuspecting villagers


    14. I envision a short conclave of the military chiefs with a weekend plan for discontinuation of contractor support used in construction, security/warfare and intelligence overseas


    15. Having just walked in I was not in the mood for a little conclave


    16. A year earlier, he had addressed a similar conclave in Jaipur and delivered his famous ‘power is poison’ speech


    17. It is vain to deny that in the actual working machinery and administration of our Church, in its arrangements, plans, schemes, and normal organization, the lay members have comparatively no place at all! Do the bishops meet in solemn conclave at Lambeth Palace to consider the state of our Zion? There is no place for the laity,- Does Convocation hold its annual debates? There is no representation of the laity,- Does the bishop of a diocese make his annual arrangements for the work of his See? Has he any difficult problem to solve about discipline or the best mode of dealing with some criminous clerk? He has no council of laymen,- Has a vacant living or incumbency to be filled up? The appointment is made without the slightest regard to the opinion of the parishioners


    18. They formed into a conclave and decided he was


    19. The history goes on to say, then, that when the bachelor Samson Carrasco recommended Don Quixote to resume his knight-errantry which he had laid aside, it was in consequence of having been previously in conclave with the curate and the barber on the means to be adopted to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in peace and quiet without worrying himself with his ill-starred adventures; at which consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of all, and on the special advice of Carrasco, that Don Quixote should be allowed to go, as it seemed impossible to restrain him, and that Samson should sally forth to meet him as a knight-errant, and do battle with him, for there would be no difficulty about a cause, and vanquish him, that being looked upon as an easy matter; and that it should be agreed and settled that the vanquished was to be at the mercy of the victor


    20. The whole conclave except these two was unanimous

    21. Unlike the conclave that the Clintons and the Gores had in 1999, which was years in the planning (if you included the Surgeon General’s report), this one came pretty much out of nowhere


    22. Later on, the principal European really in Sulaco, the engineer-in-chief of the railway, came riding up the Calle, from the harbour, and was admitted to our conclave


    23. falling in their conclave


    24. came and still the Ents held conclave under hurrying clouds and fitful


    25. In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member


    26. The boy, and his stricken and bruised conclave of monsters, his felt but half-seen crowd, fell to earth


    27. 33: diète is the legislative assembly of the Empire, conclave the assembly of cardinals to elect a Pope


    28. "Your Rambouillet is in full conclave," he said, looking round at all the party; "the graces and the muses


    29. "Eh! Ce n'est pas ca," interrupted De Griers in a tone of impatience and contempt (evidently he was the ruling spirit of the conclave)


    30. And what does this committee do? Why, after seven days' solemn conclave, they present to this House an illustrious report, loaded with alternatives—nothing but alternatives

    31. , we are now in conclave; the eyes of the surrounding world are not upon us


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    "conclave" definitions

    a confidential or secret meeting