The crowd alluded to were well enough no doubt-clerks and subordinate officials who had gradually formed a sort of international coterie who met in a wing of one of the consulates.
"Command"
William McFee
Now, according to the regulations the Jack is displayed from the consulates, and the British consul requested his patriotic fellow-citizen not to use it on his private house.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
The Italian Republics had their consulates or their marts in Alexandria, and Marseilles, Narbonne, and Catalonia sent their representatives.
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