Commissioners

Examples

• By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The Commissioners had a good deal of sympathy for the prostitute's condition, but for that lust in the hearts of men, and women we may add, for that, they had no sympathetic understanding. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Hubbard was one of the Commissioners, and he obtained permission to have Bell’s first telephone placed on a small table in the Department of Education. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was on the occasion of his visit to me just after he had talked with the peace commissioners at Hampton Roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These gentlemen are the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court, and the place in which they sit, is the Insolvent Court itself. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• How he would bother the commissioners! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The three Consuls were installed at the Luxembourg palace, with two commissioners, to reconstruct the constitution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It then appeared that several of the commissioners had formed plans of the same kind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Jugurtha bought over the Commissioners sent out to watch him, the Senators charged with their prosecution, and the generals in command against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the sentence I quote the Commissioners had an idea which might have animated all their labors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Barred from any reform which would reabsorb the impulse into civilized life, the Commissioners had no other course but to hunt it, as an outlaw. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The treaty of peace between the two countries was signed by the commissioners of each side early in February, 1848. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These were terms which could not be accepted, and the object of the commissioners could not be obtained. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The rest of the winter, after the departure of the peace commissioners, passed off quietly and uneventfully, except for two or three little incidents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is proper, therefore, that the tolls for the maintenance of such a work should be put under the management of commissioners or trustees. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the attorneys, who sit at a large bare table below the commissioners, are, after all, the greatest curiosities. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And, besides, is it not the inborn nature of Street Commissioners to avoid their duty whenever they get a chance? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am not trying to catch the Commissioners in a verbal inconsistency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• SIR:--Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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