Here was an instance in which the prefects had taken a stand against palpable injustice, and the action had caused the whole body to rise several pegs in everybody's estimation.
One by one the other prefects dropped in to the captain's study to talk the matter over.
From this draw a moral, you fellows who rule: Sink personal spite when you act for the school; And whatever your notions of prefects may be, Let's have the right men in the team at Ronleigh.
It seems hardly possible to me that such things should happen without its coming to the ears of the prefectswho were the perpetrators of the deeds in question.
The two prefects were standing at the front of the writing-table.
You mark my word," said Diggory, "as soon as the prefects have gone down to supper those chaps from over the way'll come across and pay us out for throwing that soap.
Once more the two prefects protested that they had not the remotest idea who had played the trick on Mr. Grice.
Two freshprefects were required, and the friends of law and order were unanimous in naming Fielding and Parkes as the most suitable candidates to fill the vacancies.
At all events, you'd better hurry up; prefects don't thank you for keeping them waiting.
Prefects at Ronleigh were not in the habit of being lectured as though they were lower-school boys.
Diggory glanced up, and received a look from the two prefects that amply repaid him for the trying ordeal through which he had just passed.
A vague sense that the prefects were at fault, and that this inquiry was a blind to cover their shortcomings, spread through the meeting.
He has four sub-prefects under him in the other four arrondissements.
The disaffected, though few, were powerful and active, suborning the prefects and civic authorities by every device, issuing proclamations which promised anything and everything, and procuring plans of fortified places for the allies.
Imperial prefects like Pasquier and Chabrol were calm but perfunctory.
This declaration, transmitted directly by the emissaries of the King to the prefects of the frontier cities, and distributed by the royalists, was in circulation at Paris.
The sub-prefects in their turn season it with still stronger language, and the mayors improve upon that of the sub-prefects.
The warmest expressions and the strongest colours are employed; no figure of rhetoric is forgotten, and the circular is transmitted to the sub-prefects of the department.
The two prefectsonly disagreed about the choice of the tortures.
However, the prisoner being a person of distinction, the prefects sent him to Maximian himself.
It appears from the Reports of the Prefects that, between those dates, the balance of mortgages newly effected over those extinguished in rural districts amounted to a sum of about four millions sterling.
From the Reports of the Prefects it is evident that the gravest symptom of the decline of the rural economy in Norway, and, at the same time, one of its principle causes, is the heavy indebtedness of the yeomen farmers, great and small.
Under a law passed in 1857, those lands are now divisible or exchangeable, and it appears from the report of the Prefects that the demands in that direction cannot be satisfied by the Government officials with sufficient promptness.
Between Mr Blackburn and his prefects there existed a perfect understanding.
But Kennedy had gone in against a slack and antagonistic house, with weak prefects to help him, and a fussy house-master; and he had fought them all for a term, and looked like winning.
Mr Kay mentioned it to Mr Mulholland, and Mr Mulholland discussed it at lunch with the prefects of his house.
There were one or two prefects in the school whom he might have met even at such close quarters and yet have cherished a hope that they had not seen him.
The school prefects lurked during the performance at the doors and at the foot of the broad stone steps that led to the Great Hall.
Crassus was in winter quarters with the 7th legion among the Andes, near the ocean; as he fell short of wheat, he sent several prefects and military tribunes to ask for provisions from the neighbouring peoples.
The prefects of the city, furthermore, are daily urging on this persecution; so that if any are presented to them they are punished and their property confiscated.
Besides, the provinces were divided into minute portions and many presidents and prefects lay heavy on each territory, and almost on every city.
Recognising them at once as images of the Three Prefects of the Sea-King's Palace, he picked them up reverently and deposited them in the principal hall of the temple.
All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries.
There were also sea-scorpions, the prefects of that early world.
As the Princes of the Confederation of the Rhine, the vassals of their protector, they despatched their contingents to him with as much zeal and punctuality as if they had been plain prefects of the Empire.
Rickie assented, and they entered the preparation room just as the prefects had established order.
The prefects absented themselves, the bigger boys stood round and the lesser boys, to whom power was delegated, flung him down, and rubbed his face under the desks, and wrenched at his ears.
He would slink away from the other prefects and go with boys of his own age.
One of the prefects rose, and Ansell set his back to the wall, quite ready for a battle.
The Emperor summoned his prefects to name its members, and appointed a committee to represent the government at its sessions.
Prefects and the law of the Caerites were imposed on Anagnia, Frusino, and other towns guilty of desertion.
The right of city without suffrage was accorded to the Sabines, and prefects were given to some of the towns of the valley of the Vulturnus (Venafrum and Allifae).
Then Julius Fabricius died as even Prefects do, And after certain centuries, Imperial Rome died too.
Ages ago, a large-built and unruly Second Fifteen had attempted to change this law, but the prefects of that age were still larger, and the lively experiment had never been repeated.
It was wonderful how gracious the prefects were towards her, and how the members of her own Form suddenly treated her with respect.
As a rule, unpunctuality at this meal was visited with direst penalties, but to-day Miss Roscoe only smiled as the prefects rushed in very late, hastily bolted their meat course, and fled minus the pudding.
The prefectsof about two years ago started the notion that Seniors must keep to themselves, and not have anything to do with Juniors, and you know when an idea like that gets broached how everybody takes it up and sticks to it.
But Moira shook her head and passed on, leaving Gwen to curb her curiosity until two o'clock, for the prefects had not imparted their plans to anybody as yet, and none of her own Form could enlighten her.
The Danube's prefects were recalled, And others in their place installed.
The cruelties by your prefects wrought Can scarce be ever borne in thought; Us e'en your Roman altars scare, For your gods eyes are everywhere.
But the loss of the Romans was more severe than proportionate to the number that fell, because several of equestrian rank, and five tribunes of the soldiers, and three prefects of the allies were slain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
