All 7 Uses of
parliament
in
The Silver Chair
- CHAPTER FOUR A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS IT is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed; especially if you are lucky enough to have a fire in your room.†
Chpt 4
- Let us hold a parliament of owls.
Chpt 4 *parliament = legislative assembly
- And what I want to say is this, that I'm the King's man; and if this parliament of owls is any sort of plot against the King, I'm having nothing to do with it.†
Chpt 4
- If this owls' parliament, as you call it, is all fair and above board and means no mischief, why does it have to be so jolly secret— meeting in a ruin in dead of night, and all that?†
Chpt 4
- One or two owls added that even here in the ruined tower it wasn't nearly so dark as it had been when they began, and that the parliament had been going on quite long enough.†
Chpt 4
- Ever since the owls' parliament began she had been yawning terribly and now she had dropped off.†
Chpt 5
- And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)