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Parliament

noun

A legislative assembly in certain countries.

A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards. Synonyms: fantan, sevens.

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... Sunday morning we went all three together to hear mass sung in St. James'; and here for the first time I saw Mr. Huddleston, who was of the congregation, who was in his priest's habit—as my cousin had told me—for this was allowed to him by Act of Parliament, because he had saved the King's life after the battle of Worcester. He was a man that looked like a scholar, but was very brown with the sun, too. We could not see the Duke, for he was in his closet, with the curtains half drawn—a tribune, ...

— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson

... steam expansively independently or in concert, with strokes alternate or simultaneous. The compound engine was first thought of by Watt about 1767. He laid a large drawing of it on parchment before parliament when soliciting an extension of his first patent. The reason he did not proceed to construct it was "the difficulty he had encountered in teaching others the construction and use of the single engine, and in overcoming prejudices"; the patent of 1782 was only taken out because he found himself "beset ...

— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie

... old goosie, and he would be as much out of place in Max's house as Uncle Ephraim Tipple would be in Parliament." ...

— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith

... prince, nor a lord, nor a member of parliament, nor a bishop; why are his hands as white as if ...

— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... stung Charles to the quick. No Englishman can admit that he is anywhere a foreigner. "Do you know who I am, sir?" he asked, angrily. "I am Sir Charles Vandrift, of London—a member of the English Parliament." ...

— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen

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