Wielded the gavel

Usage examples of presided.

The son of Constantine was lodged in the ancient palace of Augustus: he presided in the senate, harangued the people from the tribunal which Cicero had so often ascended, assisted with unusual courtesy at the games of the Circus, and accepted the crowns of gold, as well as the Panegyrics which had been prepared for the ceremony by the deputies of the principal cities.

The six metropolitans, Toledo, Seville, Merida, Braga, Tarragona, and Narbonne, presided according to their respective seniority.

Cameron presided efficiently over children, young adults, statesmen and—now—a dim poet, wreathed in courtly laurel.

The editor, Willis Abbott, both dapper and deeply weary, presided over a mock-up of the front page, whose principal headline advised the reader that President McKinley was to make a major address on the Philippines, in St.

Seated at the center of a gilded horsehair sofa, the so-called Easy Boss presided over the fortunes and misfortunes of all members of the so-called organization, the machinery that controlled the Republican Party in the state of New York and, presumably, the new Republican governor, Theodore Roosevelt, who had promised to give Blaise an interview after his weekly breakfast meeting with Platt.

Unlike New York City, Washington had few automobiles: “devil wagons,” according to the large black woman who presided over the N Street kitchen.

McLean, as vice-reine, presided jointly over Washington society in a way that no President’s wife could, even were she not epileptic.

Surratt herself presided over the great wagon that brought the farm’s produce to the Center Market, while Annie attended a Catholic seminary.

Chester and two elderly black women presided over the inevitable buffet.

This was fortunate, as the President had said, with considerable sympathy, when Chase had told him what a nightmare it was, trying to make order out of the finances of the United States in the vast Treasury Building, where only three hundred eighty-three clerks presided over the finances of each of seven governmental departments, as well as the Customs Department, the Lighthouse Board, the Marine Hospitals, the Coast Survey and a dozen other miscellaneous activities that had accrued to his department.

Chase, entered the dining room of the now comfortable but entirely resplendent house at Sixth and E to be greeted by his daughter Kate, both comfortable and resplendent in morning robe, as she presided over a vast breakfast of buttermilk cakes and honey, of two kinds of Virginia sausage, and hominy grits with red-eye gravy, a rebel dish to which he was addicted, and Kate not.

At the table opposite, General Dan Sickles presided over a group of senior officers and handsome ladies, none his wife but each someone’s respectable wife—highly refined but absolute lines of propriety were drawn in certain rooms at Harvey’s.

Stoddard was at the small table that Hay himself used when Nico presided over the secretary’s desk.

As always, there were no records of any kind aboard the ship to show where the cotton was destined other than the Custom’s House at New York, presided over by the amiable Hiram Barney.

But Mary presided at the dinner table with, she thought, admirable poise.