He belongs to no clique in the Common Room, but preserves the best traditions of the Englishman in his own life and in that of his boys.
I love all the clique that sits at my end of the table.
At the last two dances I got Ruth to dance with me most of the evening, which apparently scandalized some of the clique which I am supposed to have joined.
There are many indications that the wishes of the clique of zealots, who wanted to get the infallible Pope made out of hand on St. Joseph's day, will not be realized, but that a longer interval will have to be allowed.
Here one finds the most aristocratic of Parisian mondaines, the clique of the Polo Club and la Boulie and Puteaux.
Before that, there may possibly have been a private pigeon shoot, but that calls out only a small clique and takes in one of the most exclusive sets of Europe.
At the Cafe Paillard one finds the diners of the Madrid a clique aristocratic, mondain, and chiefly French.
The City of Mexico has a clique of society women famous for dress, and the South American trade is considered very important in Paris.
I began to feel interested in the clique and resolved to take a hand at them, at the first opportunity.
Not every class knows what it means to be run, not in the interest of a clique or by a few leading spirits, but by the good-feeling of the whole big class.
I think the Spencer clique (and it is only a clique) will be disappointed greatly when the affair comes up.
This was adopted by a large majority, though voted against by the whole clique hostile to me.
The little clique was much censured by the regiment.
I may tell you in confidence that he belongs to the very clique who managed to keep Mohr in the service so long.
The men of Walla Walla, and the riders of the plains who had trooped in, were sports; they grasped the idea that the gambling clique had been caught at their own game; that the intrepid Bulldog had put one over on them.
Of course Snaky Dick and his clique cast covetous eyes on the bank roll that Texas showed an inkling of when he flashed his gold.
Behind Snaky Dick sat others of the Clatawa clique waiting for his lead.
Such a close corporation of special interests did the governing clique become that the administration was known in both provinces as a "Family Compact.
It was the same with the Suffrage for Women, which cry a clique of wealthy ladies got up in London.
It will break down the barrier between the little governing clique in which the truth is cynically admitted and the bulk of educated men and women who cannot get the truth by word of mouth but depend upon the printed word.
They serve a clique whom they should expose, and denounce and betray the generality--that is the State--for whose sake the salaried public servants should be perpetually watched with suspicion and sharply kept in control.
It is worse far to be governed by a clique of Professional Politicians bamboozling the multitude with a pretence of "Democracy.
West Point clique in Washington and in the army of the Potomac.
It will be worse with his staff than it was at Jena with the Prussian staff, who were as conceited as the small West Point clique here in Washington.
I do not wish to judge or disparage the pupils from West Point, but I am disgusted with the supercilious and ridiculous behavior of the clique here, ready to form prætorians or anything else, and poisoning around them the public opinion.
Was it consistent with the principles of English liberty, they must have asked, for a clique of wealthy men, many of them united in one family, to have such power over their lives and their property?
To some of the clique of Clarendon's enemies it seemed as if the time had come to strike a decisive blow.
It was contrived by a little clique of courtiers opposed to Clarendon, and of their gradual rise to influence we shall presently see more.
The angry clique saw all their schemes threatened, the King found his cherished ease disturbed; by some means or other the wrangle must cease.
The little clique of intriguing courtiers thought that it portended danger to their own influence.
It was during the Parliament at Oxford in 1665 that this fundamental change in the financial system was pressed forward by the personal jealousy of that clique at Court which sought the ruin of Southampton and Clarendon.
A whole clique was formed with the express purpose of taming the refractory upstart.
At last the clique insisted that the manager take some parts away from Anninka and give them to Nalimova.
These were in every case prominent citizens and merchants of London, and after 1377, they were members of a cliqueespecially friendly to the King, and inimical to John of Gaunt.
This step was chiefly due to the advice of the clique of whom D'Alembert was the spokesman, though it is due to him to mention that he softened various expressions in Hume's narrative, which he pronounced too harsh.
The governing committee of a literary, philosophical, or theological cliqueform the very worst advisers any man can have.
Nicholas himself withdrew to his palaces and left the affairs of state in the hands of the court clique which dragged Russia into the Japanese war and brought on the revolution of 1905.
This, however, does not mean that Sturmer, Protopopov and theclique of the Empress were not planning to bring about a situation which would compel a separate peace.
The titled riffraff that had adorned the Louis XV-du Barry court was swept out on the accession of the young Queen, but only to be replaced by a new clique as greedy as the old, and not vastly more edifying.
The clique relaxed their brows, and conversation grew more general.
The Bird clique would not trade at Mr. Tinkham's store.
The conversation ran on about everything, until Ike had really broken up the clique of Bird & Co.
No man did more than William II himself, during twenty-six years of explosive reign, to stimulate the military clique in the belief that when the dread hour came the Supreme War Lord would be "with my Army.
Dirt and slovenliness are neither of them picturesque, yet it would seem that this singular clique held that to cultivate both was the first duty of man.
He will find no quietclique of the exclusive, studious and cultured; no rotten borough of the arts.
