privy-councillors

On the 23d November, she made the important declaration regarding her approaching marriage to the privy-councillors, eighty-three of whom assembled in Buckingham Palace to hear it.

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

This intention was delayed by the erasure of Lord Melville's name from the list of privy-councillors, and the vote of impeachment which followed; but the breach made was too wide to be thus healed.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

On the 6th of May Mr. Whitbread proposed the erasure of the delinquent's name from the list of the privy-councillors; but as Pitt observed that the measure was generally considered expedient, no motion was made on that subject.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Westminster Abbey was a mob of dukes, statesmen, privy-councillors, and men of countless acres.

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

On the 23d November, she made the important declaration regarding her approaching marriage to the privy-councillors, eighty-three of whom assembled in Buckingham Palace to hear it.

Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

Enter_ NERO _hastily and perturbed, followed by_ SENECA, BURRUS, _and_ TIGELLINUS, _his privy-councillors_.

Nero Stephen Phillips 1889

That learned monarch was himself a tolerable punster, and made very few bishops or privy-councillors that had not sometime or other signalized themselves by a clinch or a conundrum.

History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

The bishops and privy-councillors then conferred alone, altered

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Kings and princes can indeed create professors and privy-councillors, and confer titles and decorations, but they cannot make great men, -- spirits that soar above the base turmoil of this world.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors -- a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless girl, and his seven councillors who abet him in the outrage.

Hop-Frog 1849