Council-table

The late Council election also had left Fleming many enemies, and his simple duty at the Council-table daily multiplied them.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Let us throw up ejaculations of prayer to Him more and more while we are at our daily employments; you in the timber-yard, down among the ships, at the desk, and at the Council-table; and I among my books, and among my people, and in my pulpit.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Let us throw up ejaculations of prayer to Him more and more while we are at our daily employments; you in the timber-yard, down among the ships, at the desk, and at the Council-table; and I among my books, and among my people, and in my pulpit.

Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

The odds were against Hastings until the death of Monson, when, by means of his own casting vote and the adhesion of Barwell, Hastings found himself the master of the majority at the Council-table.

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

Allies had experienced little difficulty in investing their own conclusions with the seeming authority of Europe at large; but to bring the representatives of Austria and Prussia to a Council-table, to hand them the pen to sign a Treaty dictated by France and England, was not to bind them to a policy which was not their own, or to make those things interests of

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

Andrew Melville, when summoned on the same charge of seditious preaching, laid a Hebrew Bible on the Council-table and "resolved to try conclusions on that only."

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

He summoned the Chief-Justice, Richardson, who had issued the orders in the western shires, to the Council-table, and rated him so violently that the old man came out complaining he had been all but choked by a pair of lawn sleeves.

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

Even the Roman Catholic peers at the Council-table protested against this measure; and six officers in a single regiment laid down their commissions rather than enrol the Irish recruits among their men.

History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 John Richard Green 1860

The Queen, frivolous and meddlesome as she was, detested him; his fellow-ministers intrigued against him, and seized on his hot speeches against the great lords, his quarrels with the royal household, his transports of passion at the very Council-table, to ruin him in his master's favour.

History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

Cordelier Danton, called also by triumphant majorities, sits at the Departmental Council-table; colleague there of Mirabeau.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838