All 15 Uses
legislature
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All the King's Men
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- Get in there busting some sense into that Legislature, and it leaves a man worse'n the summer complaint.†
Chpt 1 *legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Pretty, only they wanted it all to themselves and somebody got sore at not being cut in, and squawked to the MacMurfee boys in the Legislature.†
Chpt 3
- You let that gang of MacMurfee's boys in the Legislature get the notion they can pull something like this and there's no telling where they'd stop.†
Chpt 3
- You got to use fellows like Byram, and Tiny Duffy, and that scum down in the Legislature.†
Chpt 3
- Some of them wore grass skirts and some of them pounded typewriters and some of them checked hats and some of them were married to legislators, but he always came back.†
Chpt 3
- Or whether they figured that the Lord had delivered the enemy into their hands, that they could get him dead to rights on the business of attempting to corrupt, coerce, and blackmail the Legislature, in addition to the other little charges of malfeasance and nonfeasance.†
Chpt 3legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- Between me and the Legislature-fill of hyena-headed, feist-faced, belly-dragging sons of slack-gutted she-wolves.†
Chpt 3
- In spite of what they're saying back in that Legislature and getting paid five dollars a day of your tax money for saying it.†
Chpt 3
- "I don't know why anybody signed this statement," I said, "but if what you charge should happen to be true then the moral strikes me as this: MacMurfee ought not to elect legislators who can be bribed or who have done things they can get blackmailed for."†
Chpt 3
- A shameful display of cowardice on the part of the Legislature...allow themselves to be intimidated by...deplorable lack of leadership...†
Chpt 3legislature = a group, made up of government representatives, that has the power to create laws
- But no, it could be said, Willie Stark caused the event by corrupting and blackmailing the Legislature.†
Chpt 3
- But no, in turn it could be replied that Willie Stark merely gave the Legislature the opportunity to behave in the way appropriate to its nature and that MacMurfee, who sponsored the election of those men, thinking to use their fear and greed for his own ends, was truly responsible.†
Chpt 3
- "Slaves down at the Legislature, and the son-of-bitches up here," he said.†
Chpt 3
- There had been some hullabaloo about it, a little stir in the Legislature, and some editorials, and some speechmaking, but it was only the ghost of a whisper now.†
Chpt 5
- But that wasn't surprising, even at that hour, when the Legislature was in session.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(legislature) a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)