Consort

Ostrakan was a wealthy nobleman, an Exactor in the Ministry of Bounty, but he was titled a Consort, for Arthygater Katharos had the royal blood and rank.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Ostrakan was a wealthy nobleman, an Exactor in the Ministry of Bounty, but he was titled a Consort, for Arthygater Katharos had the royal blood and rank.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Ostrakan was a wealthy nobleman, an Exactor in the Ministry of Bounty, but he was titled a Consort, for Arthygater Katharos had the royal blood and rank.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I am only a woman – and by the law taught in those Inns of Court where the Prince Consort is a Bencher, my existence is "absorbed in that of my husband;" and my intelligence is only so far available, that it enables him to subpoena my pub -

A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855

It was around that time that I formed a new ensemble, calling it a "Consort" -- which means family -- as a forum for all the musics and instruments and voices I had come to love.

Joseph Vella: Paul Winter on The 32nd Annual Winter Solstice Concert Joseph Vella 2011

'I would not except even the company absent!' replied he, with warmth; but was interrupted from proceeding, by what the master of the booth called his Consort of Musics: in which not less than twenty monkies contributed their part; one dreadfully scraping a bow across the strings of a vile kit, another beating a drum, another with a fife, a fourth with a bagpipe, and the sixteen remainder striking together tongs, shovels, and pokers, by way of marrowbones and cleavers.

Camilla 2008

'I would not except even the company absent!' replied he, with warmth; but was interrupted from proceeding, by what the master of the booth called his Consort of Musics: in which not less than twenty monkies contributed their part; one dreadfully scraping a bow across the strings of a vile kit, another beating a drum, another with a fife, a fourth with a bagpipe, and the sixteen remainder striking together tongs, shovels, and pokers, by way of marrowbones and cleavers.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Then she was set down upon the Seas again, and presently there was heard the most melodious and sweetest Consort of Voices, as ever was heard out of the Seas, which was made by the Fish - men; this Consort was answered by another, made by the Bird-men in the Air, so that it seem'd as if Sea and Air had spoke, and answered each other by way of Singing-Dialogues, or after the manner of those Playes that are acted by singing-Voices.

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

There are also reporting guidelines, such as Consort, which formalise the information that is supposed to appear in any scientific paper resulting from a trial.

Don't like your findings? Spin them away 2010

Interestingly he did ask me if I would be his 'Consort' and I turned him down.

Army Rumour Service 2010