Chamber
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One of the most desperate gestures of the people who occupied the legislative
chamber
in Hong Kong was raising the flag of the old British crown colony.
The mass murderer in the Pittsburgh synagogue, the “pipe bomber” who sought to assassinate major Democrats, and the recent mosque shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, are all examples of the influence of Trump’s echo
chamber
of violence.
As national politics became more democratic, a second, more representative assembly was created to complement an upper
chamber
dominated by the aristocracy.
Similarly, firms could be governed in a bicameral fashion, with a workers’
chamber
having equal say to an investors’
chamber.
It was twenty-five metres beyond the shaft, in a loftier chamber, and placed so solidly on its brick foundation that though it worked at full speed, with all its four hundred horsepower, the movement of its enormous crank, emerging and plunging with oily softness, imparted no quiver to the walls.
The cage voided its burden of workers, who crossed the pit-eye hall, a
chamber
cut in the rock, vaulted with masonry, and lighted up by three large lamps.
He swore, exclaimed that it was a sacred promise; then, when he had got the three pieces, he kissed her, tickled her, made her laugh, and would have pushed things to an extreme in this corner of the pit-bank, which was the winter
chamber
of their household, if she had not again refused, saying that it would not give her any pleasure.
And at the end of its disembowelled chamber, the engine could be seen seated squarely on its massive foundation of masonry; its copper was shining and its huge steel limbs seemed to possess indestructible muscles.
I might add that these capsules are no bigger than number 4 shot, and the
chamber
of any ordinary rifle could hold ten of them."
This served as a tank for the compressed air, which a trigger-operated valve could release into the metal
chamber.
It was a large
chamber
very decently furnished, but the servants were already engaged in carrying into it the beds of the three children.
He went a little way and found himself in an immense gothic chamber, very dark and panelled throughout in black oak; with a single exception, its pointed windows had been walled up with bricks.
But the river - chill and weary, with the ceaseless rain-drops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with a sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber; while the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin; silent ghosts with eyes reproachful, like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected - is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets.
Leaving him, therefore, endeavoring to conceal his chagrin in the solitude of his chamber, the surgeon proceeded to the more grateful task of sitting an hour by the bedside of George Singleton.
Her spirits rose in proportion; from despondency, she passed to something like gayety; her beautiful eyes sparkled with renovated brilliancy; and her face was lighted with smiles so fascinating, that Frances, who, in compliance with her earnest entreaties, had accompanied her to the sick chamber, sat gazing on a countenance that possessed so wonderful variability, impelled by a charm that was beyond her control.
A little nettled at the contumacious deportment of the British colonel, Sitgreaves, after once more tendering services that were again rejected, withdrew to the
chamber
of young Singleton, whither Lawton had already preceded him.
Dunwoodie paused not to read; but flew, with the elastic spring of joy, to the
chamber
of the prisoner.
Miss Peyton and Frances were breathless and unobserved listeners to all that passed between them, from the window of the
chamber
immediately above their heads.
A measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Polly's
chamber.
Within was a small chamber, chilly as an icehouse, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.
After he had thus baited his hook, and found easily enough the method how to lay it in my way, he played an opener game; and one day, going by his sister's
chamber
when I was there, doing something about dressing her, he comes in with an air of gaiety.
It was his younger sister's
chamber
that I was in, and as there was nobody in the house but the maids below-stairs, he was, it may be, the ruder; in short, he began to be in earnest with me indeed.
They happened to be all at table but the father; as for me, I was ill, and in my
chamber.
At last he was so perplexed that he was quite desperate, and resolved he would come into my
chamber
and see me, whatever came of it.
This was as well as he could wish, and he, as it were, yielding to talk with me at his mother's request, she brought me to him into her own chamber, told me her son had some business with me at her request, and desired me to be very sincere with him, and then she left us together, and he went and shut the door after her.
One morning he pulls off his diamond ring, and writes upon the glass of the sash in my
chamber
this line--'You I love, and you alone.'
And indeed I had a great deal of reason to say so of him too; for though we lodged both on a floor, and he had frequently come into my chamber, even when I was in bed, and I also into his when he was in bed, yet he never offered anything to me further than a kiss, or so much as solicited me to anything till long after, as you shall hear.
I told him that though my cargo of tobacco was damaged, yet that it was not quite lost; that the merchant I had been consigned to had so honestly managed for me that I had not wanted, and that I hoped, with frugal management, I should make it hold out till more would come, which I expected by the next fleet; that in the meantime I had retrenched my expenses, and whereas I kept a maid last season, now I lived without; and whereas I had a
chamber
and a dining-room then on the first floor, as he knew, I now had but one room, two pair of stairs, and the like.
But the next morning, he having heard me up about my room before him, he called to me, and I answering, he asked me to come into his
chamber.
I told him I would, and I went into my
chamber
and fetched him a little private drawer, where I had about six guineas more, and some silver, and threw it all down upon the bed, and told him there was all my wealth, honestly to a shilling.
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