Secretaries

Examples

• At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam in person attended by two under-secretaries, and several persons of distinction. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The consul and secretaries were already invited. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What does one have secretaries for? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A man who has been false to the Brotherhood is discovered sooner or later by the chiefs who know him--presidents or secretaries, as the case may be. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Royal Society had made him a fellow when he was twenty-five years old, and one of its secretaries when he was twenty-nine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I presume we shall meet those two secretaries at dinner to-day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Ask secretaries of life-assurance companies if that is true, Miss Halcombe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He sat at a table with several secretaries, who were arranging petitions, or registering the notes made during that day's audience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But the brother of one of the secretaries of the Republican Embassy at Paris made a trip to St Jean de Luz last week to meet people from Burgos. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Editor: William