Conferences

Examples

• The Stryver clerk, who never assisted at these conferences, had gone home, and the Stryver principal opened the door. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• At the beginning of every campaign the newspapers tell about secret conferences in which the candidate and his managers decide upon the line of attack. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If he called at the rectory, it was only to hold conferences with the rector in his study. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You will kindly excuse an invalid, I said--but long conferences of any kind invariably upset me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These Hague Conferences did nothing to dispel the idea that international life is necessarily competitive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is as if the convention adopted the Decalogue, while these secret conferences decided which of the Commandments was to be made the issue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These conferences are decisive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It has been the privilege of the writers to be present at some of these conferences, not only as participants, but in some cases as lookers-on while awaiting their turn. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Well, Mr. Moore (so these conferences always ended), take care of yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You hear it in the loud, clear, but more restrained tones of Congresses and Conferences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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