council-board

And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

Rhesus 2008

And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

Rhesus 2008

One or two persons of less figure, amongst whom there was one face, which, like that of the soldier, seemed not unknown to Nigel, though he could not recollect where he had seen it, completed the council-board of Jacob Duke Hildebrod.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

James had no sooner resumed his seat at the council-board than he began to hitch in his chair, cough, use his handkerchief, and make other intimations that he meditated a long speech.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The sum of the expense hereof, being cast up, brought in, and laid down upon his council-board carpet, was found to amount to no more quarterly than the charge of the nuptials of a Hircanian tigress; even, as you would say, 600,000 maravedis.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The sum of the expense hereof, being cast up, brought in, and laid down upon his council-board carpet, was found to amount to no more quarterly than the charge of the nuptials of a Hircanian tigress; even, as you would say, 600,000 maravedis.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The colour, answered Pantagruel, is convenient, for it is conform to that of my council-board carpet; therefore will I henceforth hold me with it, and more narrowly and circumspectly than ever hitherto I have done look to my affairs and business.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The colour, answered Pantagruel, is convenient, for it is conform to that of my council-board carpet; therefore will I henceforth hold me with it, and more narrowly and circumspectly than ever hitherto I have done look to my affairs and business.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Strong-handed, but weak-headed, -- a capital man of action, but valueless at the council-board, -- Murat's place was at the head of charging squadrons.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Lord Russell might adopt all the consequences of universal suffrage, and the principles of free trade, if he could still sit at the council-board, and dictate dispatches with a double meaning to foreign governments; but he fears to go beyond, though he nearly approaches, the line which separates the popular from the unpopular reformer.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various