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Parliament-house

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  • These jokes shake down Parliament-house and Windsor Castle, Temple, and Tower, and the future shall echo the dangerous peals.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • If this treason now, clad with these circumstances, did not minister a just occasion to that Parliament-house, whom they thought to have destroyed, courageously and zealously at their next sitting downe, to use all meanes of triall, whether any more of that mind were yet left in the Countrey; I leave it to you to judge . . .

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

  • If this treason now, clad with these circumstances, did not minister a just occasion to that Parliament-house, whom they thought to have destroyed, courageously and zealously at their next sitting downe, to use all meanes of triall, whether any more of that mind were yet left in the Countrey; I leave it to you to judge . . .

    Archive 2006-09-01 Flavia 2006

  • The Protector then tells them that, "seeing the authority which called them is so little valued and so much slighted, he had caused a stop to be put to their entrance into the Parliament-house," until a certain "somewhat," which would be found "in the lobby without the Parliament-door" -- an adhesion to the government in its fundamentals -- should be signed.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

  • The interior of the Parliament-house is almost the same as when Ireland had her own separate legislature.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

  • The coronation robe of the Scottish monarch was fairly a counterpart to that which our King wears when he goes to the Parliament-house, —just so full and cumbersome, and set out with ermine and pearls.

    On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909

  • Justice-hall of Newgate, in the Tower, in the Parliament-house, in St. Giles 'Workhouse, in the Crypt and under the organ of St. Paul's, in the

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • I first noticed it going up the river on the face of the 'Big Ben' of the Parliament-house, and I now find that they all, all, have this 3.10 mania, time-keepers still, but keepers of the end of Time, fixedly noting for ever and ever that one moment.

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • I then proceeded southward and westward through by-streets, seeking some probable house into which to go from the rough cold winds, when I saw the Parliament-house, and thither, turning river-ward by Westminster

    The Purple Cloud 1906

  • I can't use it to keep you out of Parliament-house.

    Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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