"Junto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... toda esperanza, pidio como ultima merced que la dejasen un instante implorar del cielo, antes de morir, el perdon de sus culpas, y de rodillas al borde de la cortadura como estaba, la vieja inclino la cabeza, junto las manos y comenzo a murmurar entre dientes que se yo que imprecaciones ininteligibles: palabras que yo no podia oir por la distancia que me separaba de ella, pero que ni los mismos que estaban a su lado lograron entender; ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... and intrigue from without further hastened the fall of the Administration. Godolphin, a moderate, had, after the General Election of 1708, found himself allied with the "Junto" of five powerful Whig Lords—Wharton, Sommers, Halifax, Orford, and Sunderland—but it was, at best, an uneasy alliance. Throughout 1709 and into the early months of 1710, personal jealousies drove the Godolphin-Marlborough ...
— Atalantis Major • Daniel Defoe
... will now probably be an attempt to procure the election of so many of their own junto under the new government, as, by the introduction of local and embarrassing disputes, to impede or frustrate its operation.... I assure you I am under painful apprehensions from the single circumstance of Mr. H. having the whole game to play in the Assembly of ...
— Patrick Henry • Moses Coit Tyler
... set themselves at table down with us, drink of our nectar and ambrosia, and take to their own beds at night for wives and concubines our fairest goddesses, the only means whereby they can be deified. A junto hereupon being convocated, the better to consult upon the manner of obviating a so dreadful danger, Jove, sitting in his presidential throne, asked the votes of all the other gods, which, after a profound deliberation amongst themselves on all contingencies, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein[Ger], Bund[Ger], Zollverein[Ger], combination; Turnverein[Ger]; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla[obs3], camorra[obs3], brigue|; freemasonry; party spirit &c. (cooperation) 709. Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
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