"Reappointment" Quotes from Famous Books
... forth in state bearing the keys of the castle, which were presented, Buchanan says, to the King in person, who accompanied the expedition, and who restored the great functionary to his office. The great keys in the child's hand, the little treble pipe in which the reappointment would be made, the tiny figure in the midst of all these plotters and warriors, gives a touch of pathos to the many pictorial scenes of an age so rich in the picturesque; but the earlier writers say nothing of the ... — Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant
... appointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. These things all happened in the same year, I believe, certainly in a very short time after I had done what I could to induce the reappointment of General Corse and the selection ... — Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar |