Committee-room love

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  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • We were now important, had our Committee-room in the Mansion House, and I remember that the old Mansion House butler recognized our importance so fully that he took us into his confidence once in every week, while we sat waiting for a quorum.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • You do not appear willing to be guided by your Committee even in the expenditure of £15 for chairs and tables for your new Committee-room; and I must repeat that such excessive caution will not be followed by success.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Various

  • Promptly at the hour I was at the committee-room, and since the time was to be so short I had put aside my notes and was telling of Miss Carroll's work, and growing sure of the interest of my listeners, when the chairman interrupted, saying that it now occurred to him that a bill asking for an appropriation belonged with the Committee on War

    A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell

  • On Saturday received a letter from BLISSOP (Secretary of the Association), stating that it was deemed necessary to take a new Committee-room in Main Street, and asking me if they might draw on me for the cost of furnishing it, a matter of about £15.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Various

  • Laughing frankly at his dozen treaties hung up in the Senate Committee-room like lambs in a butcher’s shop, one could still remind him of what was solidly completed.

    Nunc Age (1905) 1918

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