conclave

• The next conclave lasted six months and eight days Still the conclave is a kind of imprisonment, which nothing but that love of power which reconciles man to so many things he hates, and those hopes that never die in hearts that have once cherished them, could induce seventy men accustomed to lives of luxury and indulgence to submit to. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
• The mandate of each Government in regard to the conclave is the affair of that Government, and it is the affair of no other Government. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
• When the hour passes and no smoke is seen, it is known that the election is made, and the cannoneers fire away without waiting to know whom they are saluting There is no portion of the day or of the lives of the cardinals in conclave which is not regulated by a host of minute regulations and ceremonies. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875
• I have left the conclave, which is the only stirring thing in this part of the world, except the child that the Queen of Naples is to be delivered of in August. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• The Gazetta di Venezia having attacked the bishops attending the recent conclave of "Latin America," that is, Spanish-speaking America, as men of loose morality, the Osservatore Cattolico, the Vatican organ, replied declaring that the life of the bishops present at the conclave was above suspicion. —  The Master-Christian

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