Word: consorte
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...that it seems likely that little will come of the matter, it is interesting to conjecture what rash motives impelled the undergraduates. Was their petition based on the desire for unhampered week-ends? Or did they fear that in the new chapel they could not "with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon the student body too frequent "a dim religious light...
Before Captain Robbie's white $ on its field of red can be sole consort of the stars and stripes on the Pacific, his son?and the Fleishhackers?must finish the battle. They have against them the legal talent of Senator Chamberlain, a hard fighter, the general reluctance of taxpayers to admit the necessity of selling $6,000,000 boats...
...Roosevelt has been in his grave for years but the rule still obtains: No prominent non-Catholic American will be received at the Vatican who intends, after being welcomed there, to consort with its scurrilous libellers in Rome. It is a matter of decency, not bigotry...
Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary drove around the corner from Buckingham Palace to Victoria Station. The morning was cold and misty, but a large crowd was abroad to cheer its Sovereign and his Consort. Many times the King was obliged to lift his "bowler" in acknowledgment of the ovations. Ten minutes later, the boat train with a royal coach attached steamed out of the glass-roofed station, taking their Majesties on their first and well-earned vacation since the accession...
...White House was the scene of the first Army and Navy reception held in two years. Some 3,000 guests were invited. During the ordeal of receiving, Mrs. John W. Weeks, consort of the Secretary of War, fainted, was revived and taken home by her husband...