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  • CHAPTER III — A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale†  (source)
  • To their dismay, at a preliminary Republican caucus, six courageous Republicans indicated that the evidence so far introduced was not in their opinion sufficient to convict Johnson under the Articles of Impeachment.†  (source)
  • Not only would the Nawab Bahadur and others be angry, but the Government of India itself also watches—and behind it is that caucus of cranks and cravens, the British Parliament.†  (source)
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  • And that gentleman was so determined to ruin Edward, who was the chairman of the Tory caucus, or whatever it is—that the poor dear sufferer had the very devil of a time.†  (source)
  • In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquiums, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.†  (source)
  • We caucused among ourselves and lobbied all the residents of the house, and within weeks elected our own House Committee, defeating the upperclassmen.†  (source)
  • Moreover, it has given birth to two derivatives of like quality, both unknown in America—/caucusdom/, meaning machine control, and /caucuser/, meaning a machine politician.†  (source)
  • The people had tasted this new joy; and, as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now,—no, not by the strongest party,—neither then could king, prelate, or puritan,—alone or united, suppress an organ, which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch,[530] and library, at the same time.†  (source)
  • The festival encompassed all of Islam, not merely Iran, and, therefore, political rhetoric this day was confined to isolated caucuses of Iranians who chattered happily about the ayatollah's successful attempt to centralize power.†  (source)
  • No meeting, but just the same there has been a caucus and decisions have been reached even before the event is finished.†  (source)
  • They saw the unwarranted police raids on black political caucuses because these caucuses refused to allow white reporters.†  (source)
  • 'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, 'was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'†  (source)
  • His life was one of caucuses and conventions, party circulars and speeches, requests, recommendations, stratagems, schemes, and ambitions.†  (source)
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