"Consultation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a good deal taken aback; and, after a little consultation, one and all tumbled down the fore companion, thinking, no doubt, to take us on the rear. But when they saw Redruth waiting for them in the sparred gallery, they went about ship at once, and a head popped ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... cruel smile. "After due consultation with Nick, I suppose? No, my dear. I think not. We'll keep this thing a secret for the present—and I'll have ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... room, Mrs. Cameron could not see the President, who was seated at his desk surrounded by three men in deep consultation over a ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... Margaret, and that the prudent churchman declined it for the same reason. Subsequently, with the same view, Charles sent it to his ambassador at Rome, M. de Ferralz, instructing him to give it to the Cardinal of Alessandria. But Ferralz, on consultation with the Cardinal of Ferrara and others in the French interest, came to the conclusion that the gift would be useless, and so retained it, at the same time notifying his master. The reason may have been either that Alessandria had too little influence, since his uncle's death, to effect what ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... negatived. It seemed to the villagers that in such a case the glory of restoring Stephanie to her parents, and the reward that would naturally accrue from it, would not fall to them; but, at the same time, no alternative method occurred to them. Finally, after much consultation, Stephanie was asked to interpret the bishop's letter to Julian, and when she had done so she was told to add: "They think, Julian, that if they send us to the bishop papa will not know that it was they who found me ...
— Through Russian Snows - A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow • G. A Henty
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