What is "councillors"

Usage examples of "councillors".

When the Queen and her councillors returned with Web, Boyo rose to claim his turn to speak.

One by one the councillors spoke, asking questions of Capel, Goran and Karis.

Besides, I need you all alive to go back and tell your councillors what you have witnessed, except for you councillors, whose votes I need directly.

Put your proposal before all of us, so that my nobles and my councillors and I may discuss it freely together.

The Queen tartly told these councillors that their solutions lacked imagination and bade them try again.

Before Chade could suggest that would not be wise, the Queen announced that indeed she and Chade and her Six Duchies councillors would join him there, for she too wished see his Risk.

Six Duchies councillors looked both insulted and uneasy at the brewing storm in the room.

From there, it seems they were sent to a treasury team, then to the councillors responsible for public works.

Shrewd women both, they were her councillors, and Lovyan knew that no matter how much intrigue might rage around a powerful court, she could count on both for absolute honesty.

To either side of him sat priests of Bel, his councillors in the laws.

Just as she was cursing the page for being so slow, the ironbound doors opened, and the King himself came out with a retinue of pages and councillors in attendance.

Dannyn sat at his right, and the councillors in their black robes perched on stools like crows around spilled grain.

While the councillors rose one at a time to give solemn advice on matters of war, Dannyn stared out the window and thought of other things, because the real decisions would be hammered out later between the King and his warrior-vassals.

King laughed, all the councillors forced out laughs, too, even Saddar.

Gweniver wrapped her plaid tightly around her as the councillors droned on.