The coterie alluded to by Mr. Reed was that which controlled the committee on appropriations.
One morning a loud cheer brought the coterie at the captain's table in great haste and excitement on deck.
Silence fell over the little coteriein the cabin then.
Novall Junior and his coterie appear here as in their former presentation in II, ii.
The Cracker Barrel Coterie and all the Old Ladies who had become muscle-bound from wielding the Sledge predicted that Elam would put the Organization into the Ditch, wrong side up.
This select Coterie was organized for the purpose of closing all Cabarets by 6 A.
It is for that reason that I want to break up the little coterie that has determined what the government of the nation should do.
So nice was their language, and so honest their enthusiasm for their own interests, you might have imagined you were listening to a coterie of cabinet ministers conferring on taxes or debating on perquisites.
His first admittance into the select coterie of these men of the world was formed at the house of Bachelor Bill, a person of great notoriety among that portion of the elite which emphatically entitles itself "Flash.
Popular irritation against the ruling conservative coterie was, however, profound and Monagas quarrelled with congress, and sent his soldiers to break up its meetings.
Threatened by the royalist arms, unable to count on the support of any considerable proportion of the rural population of even their own provinces, the Creoles of the ruling coterie proceeded to extreme measures.
That coterie of men, powerful in both parties, had already scented the peril to their practices threatened by the Governor's reformatory plans, and were only too willing to join in a warfare against him.
Only a limited number of ladies compete for the first score, each having a little coterie of acquaintances at her back.
Thousands besides the Fanning-Smith coterie had been gambling in Great Lakes, had sold shares they did not have.
When Culver passed to the Herron coterie and the Fanning-Smiths and Great Lakes and Gulf, Dumont was still motionless--he was now estimating the strength and the weaknesses of the enemy, and miscalculation would be fatal.
The little coterietook their places around the dining room table, which was well strewn with books of reference and writing materials.
She was thinking of that worldly coterie which formerly was wont to meet nightly in her magnificent mansion to prey upon their fellows.
Were the disturbance only a local uprising, headed by a coterie of selfish politicians, it would produce but a passing ripple.
The book relates how the Restoration of 1867 was carried out by a small coterie of ex-Samurai, in whose hands, or in that of their successors, political power has ever since remained.
If Tourgenieff has placed the scene of one of his four longer works at Baden, yet it is in the Russian coterie that the tragedy of Irene Pavlovna unfolds itself.
She felt that anything free and earnest in the literary line was likely to be frowned on by the coterie to which her husband's people belonged.
I prefer their sanction to that of a coterie of cautious, unenthusiastic autocrats.
No one of the coteriehad ever seen him so stirred, and no one had ever dreamed that he could tell a story with so much real dramatic power.
The coterie broke out into a laugh over Mac's indignation, but a laugh in which there was more love than ridicule.
The coterie had listened in their usual absorbed way whenever Marny had the floor.
It was an unusual and delightful coterie of men with whom chance had associated him.
No literary circle here; no jovial coterie of journalists; no associates save those vampire ones of which the less said the better.
A vast coterie of the select hovered about the flower booth all the evening, and the cousins joyously realized they had scored one of the distinct successes of the Kermess.
As for Louise, she was enraptured by her distinguished visitor's condescension and patronage, and her heart bounded at the thought of being admitted to the envied social coterie in which Diana Von Taer shone a bright, particular star.
The meeting of the Legislature naturally brought to the State Capital at Jefferson City all of the powerful coterie which was self-charged with the work of taking Missouri into the road whither South Carolina was leading the Cotton States.
Jackson and his coteriestill relied mainly upon inciting some form of riot in the city, which would allow Gen.
This coterieincluded the Judges of the Supreme Court and all the State officials, and the United States Senators and Representatives.
The coterie of gentlemen looked at one another in disconsolate uncertainty, and one turned his cards face downward and laid them resignedly on the table.
After eleven o'clock the coterie would scarcely be subject to interruption, and there they gathered as the hour waxed late.
Cochran and his coterie of coachers ran out as we were approaching the cannon and forced us out of the contest.
Gordon Brown team hanging on the wall above him, a loving coterie of friends said good-bye.
