Deputies
[depjutiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Deputy
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Examples
- The eleven remaining deputies watched him some time, talking under their breath to each other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By examining the deputies apart, and after much investigation, we learnt the true state of things at Paris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The deputies shouted at him and hustled him, and he seems to have been very much frightened. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whereupon the king closed the hall in which it was sitting, and intimated that the deputies had better go home. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their several deputies. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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