Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution
Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving--HOW NOT TO DO IT.
Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from
Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any
Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
The clerk's
office beyond is a large room, tolerably well lighted, but seldom floored with wood.
Some days later, the insurance
offices (two in number) received the formal announcement of Lord Montbarry's death, from her ladyship's London solicitors.
Goodworthy led Philip through the dingy
office, where now six or eight clerks were working, into a narrow room behind.
If, I said, he makes a set speech and we make another recounting all the advantages of being just, and he answers and we rejoin, there must be a numbering and measuring of the goods which are claimed on either side, and in the end we shall want judges to decide; but if we proceed in our enquiry as we lately did, by making admissions to one another, we shall unite the
offices of judge and advocate in our own persons.
But he remembered when he thought about it that whoever was stupid or not fit for his
office would not be able to see it.
His mind was full of Master Bean because Master Bean was waiting for him in the outer
office; and he lingered on at his desk, after the day's work was done, for the same reason.
I am going to the Head
Office; and I have got a letter of introduction to the chief inspector in the detective department.
Instead of going straight into the adjoining room, where her desk was, she lingered, slightly irresolute, in the outer
office. Once she moved over by Maxwell's desk, near enough for him to be aware of her presence.
Muttering that I would make the inquiry whether I had time to walk with him, I went into the
office, and ascertained from the clerk with the nicest precision and much to the trying of his temper, the earliest moment at which the coach could be expected - which I knew beforehand, quite as well as he.
He was roused by a touch on the shoulder, and a request from the man with the keys to follow him into the
office. He closed his book hastily; and was at once ushered into the imposing presence of the renowned Mr.