council-room

So, when I saw the council-room to which such prisoners were taken for examination, and the door by which they passed out, when they were condemned — a door that never closed upon a man with life and hope before him — my heart appeared to die within me.

Pictures from Italy 2007

There was one who had led armies in the field, who had staked his life upon the family enterprise, a man of action and experience, of the open air, the camp, the court, the council-room; and he was to accept direction from an old, pompous gentleman in a home in Italy, and buzzed about by priests?

Lay Morals 2005

In that moment the scene in the council-room at Saumur came to his mind, and he remembered that there he had rebuked Adolphe

La Vend�e 2004

It will be remembered that Adolphe Denot left the council-room of the royalist leaders at Saumur in anger; and that, after a few words with Henri Larochejaquelin, departed no one knew whither, or for what purpose.

La Vend�e 2004

I am sure; he was not in his right senses when he left the council-room, nor yet when he was speaking to me in the street; poor Adolphe!

La Vend�e 2004

No allusion had been made to his services; his advice had never been asked in the council; there was no probability that he would be named as one of the leaders; he had hardly spoken a word since they had assembled in the council-room.

La Vend�e 2004

This apartment the abbot had used as an occasional council-room, but it was now beautifully wainscoted with dark, foreign wood of a brown colour, and bearing a high polish, said to have been brought from the Western Indies, and to have been wrought in London with infinite difficulty and much damage to the tools of the workmen.

Kenilworth 2004

Rodolphe, meanwhile, with Madame Bovary, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall, to the “council-room,” and, as it was empty, he declared that they could enjoy the sight there more comfortably.

Madame Bovary 2003

Already, in imagination, was the fort their own; and, such, was the peculiar exaltation of the black and turbaned warrior when he felt the planks of the drawbridge bending beneath his feet, all the ferocious joy of his soul was pealed forth in the terrible cry which, rapidly succeeded by that of the other Indians, had resounded so fearfully through the council-room.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

After the first general yelling heard in the council-room, not a sound was uttered.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education