Opposite to Pharaoh, squatting in a circle on the floor, were the king's councillors and interpreters, each adorned with an ostrich plume.
It is a deep-seated feeling of our natures to regard the utterances and mandates of age as wisdom, so there are few among the councillors who do not follow the old man's opinions; yet his policy limps on crutches, like himself.
A few hours ago the constables had hard work to prevent the deluded people from destroying the house of the profligate Es, and now one half of the distinguished honourable Councillors come to pay their homage.
The Tsarevich washed and dressed himself, hastened to his lady, and found her apartments full of Boyars and Grandees, and her Councillorswere all assembled there down to the very last one.
And the royal councillors were amazed, for they saw the wrinkles on the King's forehead smoothing out, and the King looked at the old woman with a smile.
The Tsar's councillors wrung their hands one after another, but spake never a word.
The Conseil General de la Seine, which holds its sessions in its chamber at the Hotel de Ville, is composed of eighty municipal councillors of Paris and twenty-one general councillors elected by the cantons of the banlieue.
We are a grave people, Mr. Dunquerque, I am told, and the sight of those town councillors all laughin' together like so many free niggers before the war was most too much for any one.
It seemed evidently the intention of De Montfort and hiscouncillors to cross the Severn, a few miles above Newport, and take possession of Bristol; and orders to that effect had been actually given.
Had not Chalais and Marillac, Cinq-Mars and Thou, been judged by commissions of Masters of Requests and Councillors of the Parliament?
The municipal councillorsof Nemetacum, blessing his paternal vigilance and his piety, decreed that a bronze statue should be raised in his honour.
Fortunately for the tranquillity of the country, the local administration works its way onward through the daily difficulties which present themselves, independent of king, ministers, councillors of state, or royal governors.
I remember that we all met at Carlton House; that we all signed some document, recognising the new sovereign, which I apprehend to be the authority for the proclamation; but that the Privy Councillors only went in to the presence.
He seems to think that upon the occasion of a new king's accession, only Privy Councillors are summoned.
Under the Act of 1894 the Parish Councillors are bound to hold their sittings in the evening after the day's work is done.
What it is now relevant to point out, is that the administrative methods of the new Councillors have very generally shown a reaction from the more stringent, and less sympathetic policy of the old Boards of Guardians.
In addition to the councillors created by purely popular election, a certain number of aldermen, not to exceed one-fourth of the whole body are chosen by co-optation among the Councillors themselves.
The Council's annual Budget is closely criticized not only in debate by the Councillors themselves, but by the Local Government Board.
As matters are, while the Lord Mayor and Aldermen are not County Councillors of London, the City of London has four representatives on the Council.
Under the existing dispensation certain Justices of the Peace owe their place on the magisterial Bench to the fact of their performing the duties of District Councillors and Guardians of the Poor.
Her councillors came gradually to take a more favourable view of the case, and to be moved by the pathetic attitude of the man who had once been so conspicuous.
During the period of this visit, the terms of a capitulation were thoroughly discussed, between Alexander and his councillors upon one part, and the four deputies on the other.
And that which neither the Freemasons, nor the leagues, nor the addresses, nor the municipal councillors of the provinces could do, you expect to get from a deputation chosen from amongst the Parisians!
The next day, the 23rd March, early in the morning, the five councillors named the evening before backed out, thus obliging the insurgents to present themselves single-handed to Lyons and the neighboring towns.
These shadows of municipal councillors looked upon themselves as the stewards of the Defence, forbade themselves any indiscreet question, were on their best behaviour, feeding and administering Trochu's patient.
These newly-elected republican councillors might have effectively counterbalanced the authority of Versailles; the advanced press encouraged them.
Newport took back with him the councillors Wingfield and Archer, and April 20, ten days after Newport's departure, Captain Francis Nelson arrived in the Phoenix with about forty additional settlers.
Berkeley would probably have set the law-officers upon him at once, but among hiscouncillors was Richard Bennett, himself of Harrison's congregation, and his influence held the governor back for a time.
The assembly was divided into two chambers, the lower consisting exclusively of burgesses representing the different hundreds, and the upper of the councillors and those specially summoned by the governor.
A charter was made out for him in February, 1631, and would have passed the seals but for the intervention of William Claiborne, one of those Virginia councillorswho had offered the oath to Baltimore.
Long and earnestly the Senate deliberated upon the offer of the councillors to send the legions to the assistance of the Mamertines, yet came to no decision.
But as the tailor insisted that the matter would permit no delay, he invited him to step aside with him, in order not to make the councillors who were with him witnesses of the unpleasant discussion.
It was one of the Councillors near him who had called out their names, evidently at the King's request.
After a few comments on the Pumpkin's return, he began to speak of the plans for searching, which he and the Councillors had discussed at an emergency meeting early this morning.
One of the councillors was asked by the King to take down her words in a note-book so that they could be afterward read by all those at a distance who could not hear.
When the queen was dead, and some rumours of the king's intentions got abroad, the public indignation was so great that Richard's councillors had to warn him to disavow the projected marriage, if he wished to retain a single adherent.
From them he chose the sheriffs, castellans and councillors through whom he administered the realm during the rest of his long reign.
Much indignation was provoked by the sight of the king kept continually in ward by his privy councillors and treated with systematic neglect; but the treatment of his son was even more resented.
In England he owed much of his success to the presence of Cranmer in the metropolitan See of Canterbury, and to the skill with which his clever councillors manipulated Parliament so as to ensure its compliance with the royal wishes.
The councillors looked a little respectable, but the burghermaster was up to the knees in cow-dung, and must have been fetched from clearing away the dung in the stable.
New families were in possession of the confiscated properties, the Imperial generals and faithful councillors had abundantly taken care of themselves.
Hereupon I marched forth again with the good councillor to the Schlundhouse, where the other councillors were sitting.
This the councillors actually proclaimed to the citizens.
When he heard this, being half dead with fright, he begged for pardon, saying it was not he that could open the gates, but the councillors who had closed them.
When these wise councillors found this, they themselves began to brew.
The councillors mistook the gourd for the egg of a foreign horse which was to be hatched for the good of the town by the united powers of the councillors.
Meanwhile, all the councillors and burgermasters were called to Meiningen, where they were charged by their government, on pain of punishment, to signify to the citizens that they were not to provide anything for the Saxe Gotha soldiers.
Then the wise councillors went off again to Meiningen and reported everything; whereupon the citizens were again cited to the town house, on a penalty of twenty gulden.
The councillors showed little consideration for her presence, and continued their quarrels, regardless of her ill health, though they must have seen the cruel effect.
Another plot to assassinate the queen was laid at Mary Stuart's door, and the councillors repeated their demands for her execution.
Nine councillors were appointed to advise and assist the queen; but Prince George was not of their number, because he had hired some Danish troops to fight against his father-in-law, and accompanied the king to Ireland.
His confidential councillors went over to the enemy, and as the Prince of Orange advanced with his forces, James retreated towards London, {288}paralyzed by the treachery that was daily brought to light.
Then she was requested to get rid of Mrs. Masham, though the councillors did not make a direct attack on the bed-chamber woman for fear of ridicule.
Strange to say, the councillors themselves afforded them on one occasion the means of intercourse with the Pretender.
But to return from this ludicrous interlude, the details of which the privy councillors narrate with the most self-assured satisfaction as evidence of the active zeal of their town functionary.
After humbly offering their congratulations on their safe arrival," the two councillors acquainted the princess-mother with the desire of the emperor that she and her daughter should take up their residence at Innsbruck.
This was half an hour before the privy councillors at Innsbruck had received the first intimation of her absence.
We have selected these few extracts from the enormous mass of evidence collected by the distracted councillors in order to give the reader some little idea of the consternation excited by this daring and well-planned escapade.
These feelings are dimly reflected in the pile of long-winded minutes which followed each other in quick succession, and in which the councillors vainly endeavored to appease the wrath of their monarch.
In other large towns, when the mayor prevented such discussions, a considerable number of the town councillors resigned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "councillors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
