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Example sentences for "camarilla"

Lexicographically close words:
cam; cama; camail; camarade; camaraderie; camas; camber; cambered; cambium; camblet
  1. On that occasion he drove out of Madrid in the disguise of a Calesero, in company with his friend Garcia, the then intendant of police, who was also obliged to fly from the vengeance of the Camarilla of the day.

  2. The reactionary camarilla around the Tzar operated in full force, fanning the hatred against the Jews.

  3. Under her guidance, during the remainder of the reign of Isabel II, the camarilla practically ruled the kingdom and precipitated the revolution of 1868, which, for a time, supplanted the monarchy with a republic.

  4. Early in November, 1916, a number of very serious and secret conferences of the camarilla took place at Rasputin's house.

  5. The satanic suggestion from Berlin, however, appealed to the camarilla of pro-German plotters.

  6. Meanwhile the camarilla were still plotting further the downfall of Russia, and endeavouring to implicate Sturmer's successor.

  7. Eagerly the camarilla awaited the result of their dastardly handiwork.

  8. The manner in which the traitorous camarilla brought about a famine in the capital, and in certain districts in the Empire, until the people of Petrograd paraded the city crying "Give us bread, or end the war!

  9. On receipt of the letter he went at once to the Palace, abruptly leaving the camarilla who had assembled to plot further, and to save themselves and their own fat emoluments by more juggling with the security of the Empire.

  10. The unrest thus created by Rasputin quickly assumed alarming proportions, and the camarilla was secretly satisfied.

  11. The two men whom the camarilla had plotted to murder were calmly in their places.

  12. He was personally on good terms with El Husseyn, and has since been disgraced; but all point to the Stamboul Camarilla and even the Sultan himself as its author.

  13. But the Camarilla ever hated a just and honest man, and Palace intrigue arranged for his destruction.

  14. The Palace entertained the foolish belief that every man has his price; but all this hypocritical benevolence was of no avail and only served to lay bare to the world the incompetence and panic of the Camarilla in the hour of danger.

  15. But the Camarilla still remained to exercise its mischievous power until the very end, though apparently it dared not interfere with one still nominally under the protection of England; for Kiamil did not disappear mysteriously.

  16. And here, in dumb show, were enacted before us some of the evil doings of the Camarilla that is no more.

  17. The formation of any dominant group or camarilla within the Central Committee is made impossible by the regulations which govern its procedure.

  18. The camarilla who had so long ruled Russia, placing the onus of their oppression upon the Emperor, had, thanks to Natalia, been broken up, and a new and honest Cabinet established in its place.

  19. And for that reason the camarilla surrounding His Majesty the Emperor had managed to obtain his appointment as Governor-General of Yakutsk.

  20. From me he was always eager to ascertain what was really happening beyond that high wall of untruth which the camarilla had so cleverly built up and preserved, and more than once had he entrusted me with certain secret missions.

  21. Thus he wrote the ukase abolishing exile by administrative process--that law which the camarilla had so abused--and signed it with a flourish of his pen.

  22. The Chancellor concluded: "As to a Camarilla--Camarilla is no German word.

  23. The Camarilla scandal was all the more painful as it was made a ground for insinuations disgraceful to German officers as a body.

  24. But on that day at Tsarskoe-Selo I noted the Empress's agitation that Kokovtsov had been appointed, and began to suspect that the camarilla would take drastic action in order to defeat him.

  25. He was too honest, and, therefore, dangerous to the Court camarilla set up and paid by Potsdam.

  26. The evening was bitterly cold, and as I drove along I became filled with ineffable disgust of Rasputin and the disgraceful camarilla who were slowly but surely hurling the nation to its doom.

  27. That speech, which the camarilla had vainly striven strenuously to suppress, proved historic, and was mainly the cause of Stürmer's overthrow.

  28. Both Miliukoff and his friend who had so narrowly escaped the "perfume" declared publicly that the camarilla favoured the acceptance of the offer.

  29. For the sake of Alexandra Feodorovna and the whole camarilla Botkine's lips must, I knew, be closed.

  30. Such were the methods of the camarilla who were ruling Russia!

  31. Trust Teofan, but make an end of the ecclesiastical camarilla which is against thee.

  32. By bribery, blackmail, and the unscrupulous use of the secret police, which was under Protopopoff as Minister of the Interior, the camarilla were waxing fat, and woe betide any who dared utter a warning to the Emperor.

  33. Truly the camarilla were supporting each other, and I, an onlooker, stood amazed and astounded.

  34. Exposure," replied the charlatan who was the head of the traitorous camarilla around the throne.

  35. It at once flashed upon Federico, that he had penetrated into that notorious camarilla or secret council of King Ferdinand VII.

  36. The camarilla crowded round Ferdinand, who lay without sense or motion.

  37. But how can we shake off this Camarilla that shelters itself behind a forest of bayonets?

  38. It at once flashed upon Federico, that he had penetrated into that notorious Camarilla or secret council of King Ferdinand VII.

  39. The hereditary archduke and his wife had a powerful camarilla against them.

  40. At Vienna even the inimical camarilla was disarmed.

  41. And a whole camarilla interested in the advantages to be derived from these splendid enterprises praised them extravagantly.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camarilla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.