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18 example sentences for CONSUL, such as:
1. While commanding as consul against the Samnites, Manlius was wounded in a skirmish.
2. Fabius, brother of the consul, who had himself been consul the year before, was slain.
3. Whereupon, he was sent by the consul with three thousand men to secure the height, and so saved the Roman army.
4. For whereas the Romans were always victorious under the consuls, under the decemvirs they were always defeated.
5. Certain citizens of Rome, for instance, were very active in forwarding a law allowing the appointment of a plebeian to be consul.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONSUL
consul
 n.  a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Nevertheless, in the later days of the republic the Romans were wont to entrust this power to a consul instead of to a dictator, using the formula, Videat CONSUL ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
2  Fabius, brother of the consul, who had himself been consul the year before, was slain.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVI.
3  The Romans separated into two divisions, one of which with the consul, the other with the centurion Tempanius by whose valour the army had that day been saved from utter rout.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
4  At daybreak the consul, without waiting for further tidings of the enemy, made straight for Rome; and the Equians, in like manner, withdrew to their own country.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
5  But if any consul or other leader ever joined battle contrary to the auspices, the Romans would punish him, as they did Claudius Pulcher.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
6  Certain citizens of Rome, for instance, were very active in forwarding a law allowing the appointment of a plebeian to be consul.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
7  Whereupon, he was sent by the consul with three thousand men to secure the height, and so saved the Roman army.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIX.
8  While commanding as consul against the Samnites, Manlius was wounded in a skirmish.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
9  The Russian consul, too, acting for the charter-party, took formal possession of the ship, and paid all harbour dues, etc.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Of course my statement must be taken cum grano, since I am writing from the dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  The institutions of the State consisted in the authority of the people, the senate, the tribunes, and the consuls; in the methods of choosing and appointing magistrates; and in the arrangements for passing laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
12  For when a dictator was appointed there still remained the tribunes, the consuls, and the senate, all of them invested with authority of which the dictator could not deprive them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
13  So that the senate, the consuls, and the tribunes continuing to exist with undiminished authority were a check upon him and kept him in the right road.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
14  The first who attempted to pass a law to this effect was the tribune Terentillus, who proposed that a committee of five should be named to consider and regulate the power of the consuls.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIX.
15  For whereas the Romans were always victorious under the consuls, under the decemvirs they were always defeated.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIII.
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