"Adjourn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... considered and agreed to unanimously. It was sent to the House of Representatives the next morning, when Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, pending a motion to adjourn, asked unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table the concurrent resolution in reference to the Washington monument. Upon the resolution being read, the House seemed to be impressed, as was the Senate, with the fitness of the time, and the propriety of the measure proposed, and it ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... chaps'll fairly enjoy this," said Davie, nodding in the direction of some of the delegates. "That's the way they agreed to adjourn sae already. They jist leeve for the conferences. It's the time they like. They booze and get their horns oot for a day or two, an' I can tell you, Rab, it's maybe jist as well that they dinna bring their weemin folks wi' them. However, it tak's ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... council at his word adjourn'd: To their black vessels all the Greeks return'd. Achilles sought his tent. His train before March'd onward, bending with the gifts they bore. Those in the tents the squires industrious spread: The foaming coursers to the stalls ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... Then we'll adjourn the session. Remember though, that when Kurt died, I couldn't bear to see the girl around the house. Who kept her and persuaded her ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... suddenly exclaimed our host, "it is time to use your forks vigorously. Let us adjourn to ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
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