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  • "The choice was unanimous," Luke announced.†   (source)
  • The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was approved by the House by a unanimous vote of 416 to 0; it passed the Senate by a vote of 88 to 2.†   (source)
  • If we can get all of you to agree to this restitution plan, and it has to be unanimous agreement, then the Sheriff's Department will not pursue further charges against Erik and Arthur."†   (source)
  • After everybody votes unanimously for the Canada gold stock, I go into the kitchen to ask Auntie An-mei why the Joy Luck Club started investing in stocks.†   (source)
  • Now, the vote would be almost unanimously yes.†   (source)
  • The look of shock is unanimous.†   (source)
  • When it came time to choose their launch leader, Alai was the almost unanimous choice.†   (source)
  • There has been significant debate in the scientific community about whether desire is a symptom of a system infected with amor deliria nervosa, or a precondition of the disease itself It is unanimously agreed, however, that love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other.†   (source)
  • In secret ballot we voted unanimously to keep him.†   (source)
  • At first the town held the line, but when entrepreneurs from Bussard City moved in with gift shops, T-shirt concessions, tours, and datachip booths for the tourists who were coming in larger and larger numbers, the local business people first dithered, then wavered, then decided unanimously that, if t here was commerce to be carried on, the profits should not go to outsiders.†   (source)
  • Sorry, forget all that, I meant mountain falling, the Grand Prix Hindu Crash, awarded unanimously to Sherpa Marcus the Unsteady.†   (source)
  • There was unspoken but unanimous approval.†   (source)
  • According to IBP, the decision to shut it was made after a unanimous vote by its top executives.†   (source)
  • It was unanimous.†   (source)
  • Rob, who had unanimously been named captain by the team, was tall, skinny, smart, and had the best line with girls that Gerald had ever heard.†   (source)
  • Although it certainly felt longer to Mack, the various departments and personalities agreed quickly, and unanimously, to set out in pursuit just as soon as a few arrangements could be made.†   (source)
  • I learned in Faction History that the Amity recognize no official leader—they vote on everything, and the result is usually close to unanimous.†   (source)
  • Six months later, by unanimous agreement, Florentino Ariza was named President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the company.†   (source)
  • And the D's and F's were unanimously opposed!†   (source)
  • Since these are criminal proceedings, understand, your verdict—whether guilty or not so—must be a unanimous one.†   (source)
  • Returning to the table, Íorunn said, "The readers-of-law are unanimous.†   (source)
  • The small area held too much damage-not physical, but psychological-and the administration had unanimously agreed to tear it down, along with the rest of the gym and the cafeteria, later this month.†   (source)
  • It is the people of Iran who ousted the Shah and unanimously approved the establishment of an Islamic Republic.†   (source)
  • We unanimously decided to tender our resignations on the grounds that we supported the boycott and did not enjoy the support of the majority of the students.†   (source)
  • When it came to figuring out what sort of activities should take place on the field, Holliday said, the refugees were nearly unanimous.†   (source)
  • But all this time, just as a drop of water slowly swells until it is heavy enough to fall from a twig, the idea of what they meant to do was becoming clear and unanimous.†   (source)
  • The bosses were unanimous, however, in voting down Papi's next raise.†   (source)
  • But in the end, the decision was unanimous: the immortal children could not be allowed to exist.†   (source)
  • The board had voted unanimously in favor of the proposal.†   (source)
  • We looked at the standards, and unanimously we agreed: he met them.†   (source)
  • There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement…nor did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise.†   (source)
  • I looked at all three of them to make certain we were unanimous.†   (source)
  • Until Clevinger was snatched from existence so adroitly, Yossarian had assumed that the men had simply decided unanimously to go AWOL the same day.†   (source)
  • In the end, the recommendation from the transplant committee was unanimous.†   (source)
  • I mean he was the unanimous choice.†   (source)
  • If Lanier managed to successfully detonate these two bombs in open court, he might just walk away with a unanimous verdict.†   (source)
  • On February i 6, Washington convened his council of war for what he hoped would be unanimous agreement that the time had come to attack.†   (source)
  • These proposals were adopted unanimously.†   (source)
  • "Eddis's council voted unanimously for war," the magus said.†   (source)
  • The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces.†   (source)
  • She never understood why the Board of Directors voted unanimously to make her Vice-President in Charge of Operation.†   (source)
  • We go up there as a class and tell him that we voted unanimously that he's not worthy to be in our class.†   (source)
  • The careworn replies and nods were unanimous, and Ms.†   (source)
  • The bell rang, but neither of them heard it, grunting, straining, slugging, and then everyone was in the ring pulling them apart, grabbing their gloves…. by unanimous decision ….†   (source)
  • They unanimously recommended to the people their plan—the proposed Constitution.†   (source)
  • Let the halfling, the former spokesman from Lonelywood, represent us in Akar Kessell's court," Cassius declared to the nearly unanimous approval of the assembly.†   (source)
  • It was unanimous.†   (source)
  • They unanimously proclaimed Eugene the Great and Mighty Wizard, and he would come out from behind a rock and bellow out lines they had taught him so loud and with such a depth of feigned anger that Oz, the Cowardly Lion, asked Eugene, the Mighty Wizard, if he could please tone it down a bit.†   (source)
  • Must be unanimous.†   (source)
  • The verdict was swift and unanimous: Guilty on the first count, probable on the second.†   (source)
  • Caribou were becoming scarce to the point of rarity, and wolves were unanimously held to be to blame.†   (source)
  • The feeling's that unanimous.†   (source)
  • I want it unanimous.†   (source)
  • JUDGE The jury's decision is unanimous.†   (source)
  • However you decide, your verdict must be unanimous.†   (source)
  • The guests shouted, "It's bitter!" and others responded unanimously from the end of the room, "Make it sweet!" and the bride and bridegroom smiled shyly and kissed.†   (source)
  • My friends led me to believe that the people of Nebraska were almost unanimously against me.†   (source)
  • I did not know what I had done, and I shortly began to wonder what anyone could possibly do, to bring about such unanimous, active, and unbearably vocal hostility.†   (source)
  • Both the provinces and the cities must unanimously approve important issues.†   (source)
  • But when unanimously chosen as one of a committee of three to go on the mission, he consented.†   (source)
  • As Jefferson remembered, the committee simply met and unanimously chose him to undertake the draft.†   (source)
  • And the States must unanimously ratify the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Once again the entire class unanimously consented to this second choice.†   (source)
  • The class unanimously declared him to be a lousy singer.†   (source)
  • The duty, imposed by armed force, to live unanimously as a people, as a whole nation, was abolished.†   (source)
  • In the end, after an hour of arguing and going back and forth and coming full circle a dozen times, they decided—unanimously—to go to Denver.†   (source)
  • A week ago, the College of Cardinals had unanimously chosen Mortati for the office known as The Great Elector-the conclave's internal master of ceremonies.†   (source)
  • 'Election by Adoration occurs when …. all the cardinals, as if by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, freely and spontaneously, unanimously and aloud, proclaim one individual's name.'†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' concept of changing Quality as reality, a reality so omnipotent that whole governments must change to keep up with it, is something that in a wordless way we have always unanimously believed in all along.†   (source)
  • The Court ruled unanimously in our favor, deciding that a condemned prisoner could challenge unconstitutional methods of execution by filing a civil rights case.†   (source)
  • Several Gravesend students came from there, and they unanimously groaned to hear the announcement of Randolph White's appointment as headmaster at the academy; apparently, the idea that anyone from Lake Forest had followed them to New Hampshire depressed them.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the Swiss Guards unanimously agreed that the camerlegno's bold decision to address the world with the truth and then provide the media with actual visuals of Illuminati treachery had been a savvy maneuver.†   (source)
  • Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features.†   (source)
  • They agreed unanimously that the fire extinguisher could count as a weapon and Lars's death could be seen as in combat.†   (source)
  • In this case, while the ANC unanimously supported the strike, some PAC men in the general section did not.†   (source)
  • The city council had voted unanimously to grant the Fugees six months' use of the field in October—just over three months ago.†   (source)
  • The crowd was struck into silence, all heads jerking unanimously toward the graceful figure of Dr. Floyd Ferris.†   (source)
  • The giants unanimously elected a jotun named Grum, who had apparently been sleeping under the bar—and collecting grime and lint there—for the past forty years.†   (source)
  • There was discussion of these and other points, including the enemy's defenses, after which it was agreed unanimously not to attack, not for the "present at least."†   (source)
  • As early as July 9, at Washington's first council of war, it had been proposed that the army take possession of Dorchester Heights, but the idea was unanimously rejected.†   (source)
  • The students unanimously felt that the diet at Fort Hare was unsatisfactory and that the powers of the SRC needed to be increased so that it would be more than a rubber stamp for the administration.†   (source)
  • The motion passed unanimously.†   (source)
  • If the second group can't agree on a remedy, wouldn't he try the remedy that the first group of doctors unanimously recommended?†   (source)
  • Nor was Adams like George Washington immensely popular, elected unanimously, and all but impervious to criticism.†   (source)
  • To his surprise and delight, the whole of the paragraph passed intact, and, as he also noted, "unanimously without amendment!"†   (source)
  • When the electors met in February 1789, Washington was chosen President unanimously with 69 votes, while Adams, though well ahead of ten others, had 34 votes, or less than half.†   (source)
  • Three days later came word that on May 15, the Virginia convention at Williamsburg had resolved unanimously to instruct the Virginia delegation at Philadelphia "to declare the United Colonies free and independent states."†   (source)
  • I believe if it was moved and seconded that we should come to a resolution that three and two make five, we should be entertained with logic and rhetoric, law, history, politics, and mathematics concerning the subject for two whole days, and then we should pass the resolution unanimously in the affirmative.†   (source)
  • But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper, you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental and moral shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there were no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).†   (source)
  • And the Nebraska Legislature had already unanimously pledged to President Wilson "the loyal and undivided support of the entire citizenry of the state of Nebraska, of whatever political party and of whatever blood or place of birth, in whatever may be found necessary to maintain the right of Americans, the dignity of our nation and the honor of our flag."†   (source)
  • "Yes!" came the unanimous, joyful response of all three.†   (source)
  • The decision had been virtually unanimous.†   (source)
  • Jack shot into the air to make the vote unanimous.†   (source)
  • Wyoh and Prof and Mike were unanimous in risking it; I happily accepted their judgment.†   (source)
  • It has to be unanimous to throw you out of here.†   (source)
  • Besides, takes unanimous decision of all wives to divorce a husband—could never happen.†   (source)
  • He spoke about social planning and the necessity of unanimous rallying in support of the planners.†   (source)
  • If he did, opinion would be unanimous against him.†   (source)
  • She has obtained unanimous advice from men of her own choice.†   (source)
  • "She was a racist," came the unanimous reply.†   (source)
  • The resolution to replace facilitate with enable and ensure was adopted by a unanimous show of hands and a universal stomping of feet.†   (source)
  • "We cannot and will not approve corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial process," the unanimous ruling read.†   (source)
  • Instead, over Seiler's objections, he read a "Dynamite Charge" to the jury, which essentially told them in blunt terms to stop dawdling and come to a unanimous decision.†   (source)
  • Although an unlikely candidate, Mortati was chosen by an unprecedented unanimous vote by the College of Cardinals.†   (source)
  • They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which Jose Arcadio Buendia had synchronized with such precision that every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unanimous as a complete waltz.†   (source)
  • It was unanimous in that regard.†   (source)
  • There were consolation prizes—Turf and Sport was going to present Seabiscuit with a special plaque commending his performances, and by unanimous vote, they had named him Handicap Champion—but these weren't the honors the Howard barn craved.†   (source)
  • When the workers drew up a list of unanimous petitions, a long time passed before they were able to notify the banana company officially.†   (source)
  • Senator A. B. "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky informed his colleagues that the heroes of "one of the great pictures of American history" waited outside the chamber: "I ask unanimous consent that the three young men be escorted into the Senate Chamber so that they may be honored."†   (source)
  • They want it unanimous.†   (source)
  • The decision was unanimous.†   (source)
  • "When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent?†   (source)
  • "Consent is unanimous," he stated, "and the gentlemen members are placed on notice that I will invoke special rule fourteen at the next outburst.†   (source)
  • The National Alliance of Railroads has taken a unanimous stand against the raises and has committed every member to refuse.†   (source)
  • A Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, Eliphalet Dyer, who had heartily joined in the unanimous decision to make Washington the commander-in-chief, judged him to be no "harum scarum" fellow.†   (source)
  • "And," said Prof, "still on the subject of security, the secret of Mike should be restricted to this executive cell, subject to unanimous agreement—all three of us—correction: all four of us—that is must be extended."†   (source)
  • Do I hear unanimous consent?†   (source)
  • Unanimous consent?†   (source)
  • Unanimous.†   (source)
  • But it was also the unanimous conclusion of the cabinet that another mission to France would be an act of humiliation and was therefore unacceptable.†   (source)
  • New York continued to abstain, but South Carolina, as hinted by Edward Rutledge, joined the majority to make the decision unanimous in the sense that no colony stood opposed.†   (source)
  • Is it unanimous?†   (source)
  • Rejecting the verdict of the jury and the unanimous opinion of his cabinet, Adams pardoned Fries and the two others, never doubting he had done the right thing.†   (source)
  • Though the electoral vote would not be known until February, it was clear by Christmas that Washington was again the unanimous choice for President, and that Adams, for all that had been said against him, had won a clear second place, far ahead of George Clinton.†   (source)
  • "The town of Quincy has been pleased to elect me a member of the Convention—and wonderful to relate—the election is said to be unanimous…… I am sufficiently advanced in my dotage to have accepted the choice," he reported to Louisa Catherine.†   (source)
  • Let's make it unanimous!†   (source)
  • It was unanimous.†   (source)
  • It's unanimous," Johnson said simply.†   (source)
  • But when one of his oldest political friends in Maine urged him to "hang Johnson up by the heels like a dead crow in a cornfield, to frighten all of his tribe," noting that he was "sure I express the unanimous feeling of every loyal heart and head in this state," Fessenden indignantly replied: I am acting as a judge …. by what right can any man upon whom no responsibility rests, and whodoes not even hear the evidence, undertake to advise me as to what the judgment, and even the…†   (source)
  • I will not, however, even at the behest of a unanimous constituency, violate my oath of office by voting in favor of a proposition that means the surrender by Congress of its sole right to declare war…… If my refusal to do this is contrary to the wishes of the people of Nebraska, then I should be recalled and someone else selected to fill the place…… I am, however, so firmly convinced of the righteousness of my course that I believe if the intelligent and patriotic citizenship of the…†   (source)
  • Then it is unanimous, and I must say it is extremely gratifying that my students are sharing such a great concern for the rest of mankind.†   (source)
  • "No," came the unanimous reply.†   (source)
  • Even though one of the children suffered a relatively serious injury and I failed by twenty-four hours to transport the group back to the island on time, the power of the children's unanimous, animated support of the venture erased any reluctance the parents might have experienced.†   (source)
  • The cows declared unanimously that Snowball crept into their stalls and milked them in their sleep.†   (source)
  • Peter Keating was elected chairman, unanimously.†   (source)
  • There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously.†   (source)
  • They went together unanimously though shyly, without explanations, and found themselves standing at the end of Hob's barley strip after Mass.†   (source)
  • The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, 'Animal Hero, First Class,' which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer.†   (source)
  • When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island.†   (source)
  • Carried unanimously.†   (source)
  • Decision of the lower court unanimously confirmed.†   (source)
  • "True, true; ye must, malter, wonderful," said the meeting unanimously.†   (source)
  • It was not quite unanimously settled which; the Barnacles having their opinion, the nation theirs.†   (source)
  • The task of erecting the building had been unanimously transferred to Mr. Jones and Hiram Doolittle.†   (source)
  • "Carried unanimously," I repeated, going on with my work.†   (source)
  • After the expiration of a few minutes, five were unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks.†   (source)
  • As to the objection which I made just now in the name of all, to the presence of your friends, I think I ought to explain, gentlemen, that I only did so to assert our rights, though we really wished to have witnesses; we had agreed unanimously upon the point before we came in.†   (source)
  • How that stupid, dull Englishman ever came to be admitted within the intellectual circle which revolved round "the cleverest woman in Europe," as her friends unanimously called her, no one ventured to guess—golden key is said to open every door, asserted the more malignantly inclined.†   (source)
  • In their views as to their acquaintances, husband, wife and daughter were entirely agreed, and tacitly and unanimously kept at arm's length and shook off the various shabby friends and relations who, with much show of affection, gushed into the drawing-room with its Japanese plates on the walls.†   (source)
  • Even the boisterous winds unanimously came forth from their mystic homes, and blustered about as if to enhance by their aid the wildness of the scene.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for his own mood, this same group, having danced and frolicked every night for the past week until almost nervously exhausted, it now unanimously and unconsciously yielded to weariness and at eleven thirty, broke up.†   (source)
  • 'It lasted for a while, and then they were suddenly and unanimously moved to make a noise over their escape.†   (source)
  • It was adopted, unanimously.†   (source)
  • For, if for me we were four people with the same tastes, with the same desires, acting—or, no, not acting—sitting here and there unanimously, isn't that the truth?†   (source)
  • After the question had been canvassed for several days, the directors voted unanimously to ask me to deliver one of the opening-day addresses, and in a few days after that I received the official invitation.†   (source)
  • Not that I don't like Mattie Gormer—I DO like her: she's kind and honest and unaffected; and don't you suppose I feel grateful to her for making me welcome at a time when, as you've yourself seen, my own family have unanimously washed their hands of me?"†   (source)
  • And when the high priest mentions that Radames has nothing to say, they unanimously agree he is guilty of treason.†   (source)
  • When the group of jurors to which I was assigned met for organization, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, who was one of the number, moved that I be made secretary of that division, and the motion was unanimously adopted.†   (source)
  • And, as they now unanimously testified, on the night in question, at about nine o'clock, as they were nearing the south shore of Big Bittern—perhaps three miles to the south of it—they had encountered a young man, whom they took to be some stranger making his way from the inn at Big Bittern south to the village at Three Mile Bay.†   (source)
  • Upon my word, yes, our intimacy was like a minuet, simply because on every possible occasion and in every possible circumstance we knew where to go, where to sit, which table we unanimously should choose; and we could rise and go, all four together, without a signal from any one of us, always to the music of the Kur orchestra, always in the temperate sunshine, or, if it rained, in discreet shelters.†   (source)
  • Someone had asked Anton Karlovitch Ferge to entertain them with his tale of pleural shock, but he could not manage his recalcitrant tongue and frankly admitted his incapacity—which was unanimously greeted as cause for another drink.†   (source)
  • For as all, but more particularly the ministers of the region, since they most guardedly and reservedly represented their congregations in every instance, unanimously saw it, here was a notorious and, of course, most unsavory trial which had resulted in a conviction with which the more conservative element of the country—if one could judge by the papers at least, were in agreement.†   (source)
  • The crew sided with him unanimously.†   (source)
  • Although Mr. Losberne received with many wry faces a proposal involving a delay of five whole days, he was fain to admit that no better course occurred to him just then; and as both Rose and Mrs. Maylie sided very strongly with Mr. Brownlow, that gentleman's proposition was carried unanimously.†   (source)
  • On his taking the recorders,—very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door,—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia.†   (source)
  • "Let him keep it, of course," murmured another in the background—a silent, reserved young man named Boldwood; and the rest responded unanimously.†   (source)
  • Unanimously voted.†   (source)
  • We are only astonished that this effect has not been more fully and strongly produced, and that the burst of indignation against this unauthorized, insolent and hostile interference against us, has not been more general even among the party before opposed to Annexation, and has not rallied the national spirit and national pride unanimously upon that policy.†   (source)
  • Uncles and aunts were almost unanimously of opinion that such an offer ought not to be rejected when there was nothing in the way but a feeling in Mr. Tulliver's mind, which, as neither aunts nor uncles shared it, was regarded as entirely unreasonable and childish,—indeed, as a transferring toward Wakem of that indignation and hatred which Mr. Tulliver ought properly to have directed against himself for his general quarrelsomeness, and his special exhibition of it in going to law.†   (source)
  • The majority then reprobated the line of policy which he adopted, and which has since been unanimously approved by the nation.†   (source)
  • While Hard-Heart himself, so distinguished for his exploits from boyhood to that hour, was unanimously proclaimed and re-proclaimed the worthiest chief and the stoutest brave that the Wahcondah had ever bestowed on his most favoured children, the Pawnees of the Loup.†   (source)
  • The children begged me to decide on a name for our salt cave dwelling, and that of Rockburg was chosen unanimously.†   (source)
  • Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and as it was impossible to keep the infection off; though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed.†   (source)
  • In the Seleznevsky district Sviazhsky was elected unanimously without a ballot, and he gave a dinner that evening.†   (source)
  • He had known that Moscow would be abandoned not merely since his interview the previous day with Kutuzov on the Poklonny Hill but ever since the battle of Borodino, for all the generals who came to Moscow after that battle had said unanimously that it was impossible to fight another battle, and since then the government property had been removed every night, and half the inhabitants had left the city with Rostopchin's own permission.†   (source)
  • "True; and you will remember an expression attributed almost unanimously, by the evidence, to this voice,--the expression, '_mon Dieu!†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as be harangued them, the satisfaction and admiration unanimously excited by his costume were dissipated by his words; and when he reached that untoward conclusion: "As soon as his illustrious eminence, the cardinal, arrives, we will begin," his voice was drowned in a thunder of hooting.†   (source)
  • This was an easy feat to him, for he usually attracted a crowd of spectators in the bay before the lighthouse at Marseilles when he swam there, and was unanimously declared to be the best swimmer in the port.†   (source)
  • But it was not resolved unanimously that things would come right; on the contrary, the committee looked rather grim, and the political personage from Brassing was writing busily, as if he were brewing new devices.†   (source)
  • Fritz was unanimously voted her rightful owner, but before his mother would hear of his entering the frail-looking skiff she declared that she must contrive a swimming-dress, so that 'should his boat receive a puncture from a sharp rock or the dorsal fin of a fish and collapse, he might yet have a chance of saving his life'.†   (source)
  • And despite the prepossessions and prejudices of the multitude, they shouted unanimously as the knight rode into the tiltyard, The second glance, however, served to destroy the hope that his timely arrival had excited.†   (source)
  • Carried unanimously.†   (source)
  • At all events, such was the universal practice of the country and the times; and Judge Temple, so far from ranking among the lowest of his judicial contemporaries in the courts of the new counties, felt himself, and was unanimously acknowledged to be, among the first.†   (source)
  • …Crawley would prefer a perpetual retirement on the Continent to a residence in this country with his debts unsettled; having proved to them that there was no possibility of money accruing to him from other quarters, and no earthly chance of their getting a larger dividend than that which she was empowered to offer, she brought the Colonel's creditors unanimously to accept her proposals, and purchased with fifteen hundred pounds of ready money more than ten times that amount of debts.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wopsle, indeed, wildly cried out, "No!" with the feeble malice of a tired man; but, as he had no theory, and no coat on, he was unanimously set at naught,—not to mention his smoking hard behind, as he stood with his back to the kitchen fire to draw the damp out: which was not calculated to inspire confidence.†   (source)
  • To which Mr Nandy replied: 'I am heartily of your opinion, Thomas, and which your opinion is the same as mine, and therefore no more words and not being backwards with that opinion, which opinion giving it as yes, Thomas, yes, is the opinion in which yourself and me must ever be unanimously jined by all, and where there is not difference of opinion there can be none but one opinion, which fully no, Thomas, Thomas, no!'†   (source)
  • ] [Footnote b: In 1641 the General Assembly of Rhode Island unanimously declared that the government of the State was a democracy, and that the power was vested in the body of free citizens, who alone had the right to make the laws and to watch their execution.†   (source)
  • "Well, 'tis an honest deed, and we thank ye for it, Pennyways," said Joseph; to which opinion the remainder of the company subscribed unanimously.†   (source)
  • The Romeo was received with hearty plaudits and unbounded favour, and Smike was pronounced unanimously, alike by audience and actors, the very prince and prodigy of Apothecaries.†   (source)
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