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"Adjournment" Quotes from Famous Books

... allowed him to be deceived also in not admitting that they had come with full powers, still maintained that it was best to be friends with the Lacedaemonians, and, letting the Argive proposals stand over, to send once more to Lacedaemon and learn her intentions. The adjournment of the war could only increase their own prestige and injure that of their rivals; the excellent state of their affairs making it their interest to preserve this prosperity as long as possible, while those of Lacedaemon were so desperate ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

... explained to Schrank that he was charged with a serious offense, and had the right to ask for an adjournment and time in which to obtain legal counsel ...

— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

... inclined to consent to any adjournment," said Mr Morgan; "it looks like an attempt to defeat the ends of justice." The Rector was very much annoyed—more than he dared confess to himself. He believed in his heart that young Wentworth was guilty, and he felt equally convinced that here was some unexpected ...

— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... decided to vote upon the adjournment by ayes and nays. This was in earnest. The excitement was furious. The galleries were in commotion in an instant, the reporters swarmed to their places. Idling members of the House flocked to their ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... explanation, before there was a general adjournment to an inner apartment, where all the necessary articles of cooking were ready ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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