"Proceedings" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... legal proceedings would be entirely out of the design of this story. I will therefore state ...
— Under Fire - A Tale of New England Village Life • Frank A. Munsey
... carriage, and it was dragged to the palace by the people. Fireworks and illuminations followed, and a gala performance at the opera for the succeeding night was ordered; but King Joao VI. was unable to attend. The proceedings had really been adopted against the grain in his case, and thus, when the curtains in the royal box were drawn apart, it was seen to be occupied by the pictures of the King and Queen instead of by royalty in the flesh; but these pictures were received ...
— South America • W. H. Koebel
... to watch Luka's proceedings now. He stopped behind the fourth tent, placed his ear against the skin and listened intently. Then he inserted the blade in the skin two feet above the ground and very quietly, with a sawing motion, cut downwards. ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty
... you say, your late maternal grandfather was curate of Slowden, and was, as far as you are aware, a man of exemplary character, we could make him a bishop without delay. Your home being in Kent, it occurs to us that the see of Carlisle would suit the Right Reverend Prelate best. The cost of the proceedings, including a pre-dated Conge d'Elire, would be eight hundred guineas. An archbishopric would be slightly more expensive and, in our ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 22, 1920 • Various
... corruptibility made him a seductive patron. He was a large purchaser in the sale of the emigrant property; he obtained a contract for the supply of the army in the Netherlands; he abandoned Danton as he had abandoned the Girondins, but without taking any active part in the after-proceedings of the Jacobins. His next connection was with Tallien and Barras, and he enriched himself yet more under the Directory than he had done in the earlier stages of the Revolution. Under cover of an appearance of bonhomie and good humour, a frank laugh and an open countenance, Jean Bellanger ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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