junto

• The members of the infernal junto were all out on some midnight business or other, and he saw nothing but a kind of kettle or cauldron, depending from the roof over the fire, simmering some heads of unchristened children, limbs of executed malefactors, ;c., for the business of the night. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
• "The impression here is that Van Buren and his junto are politically dead," wrote DeWitt Clinton to Henry Post on the 17th of February, 1824. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• In refusing, also, to reassemble the Legislature, for the repeal of the Small Bills act, the passage of which he had recommended in 1835, he gave the Evening Post opportunity to assail him as "a weak, cringing, indecisive man, the mere tool of a monopoly junto--their convenient instrument Marcy held office under difficult conditions. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• By this junto, which met privately at Drury-house, the plot was matured. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• A number of persons, armed with muskets, assembled in the Square-del-Corso; and when the garrison was called out the soldiers joined the populace, and a provincial junto was appointed. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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