What is "trustees"

Usage examples of "trustees".

The trustees of Wylder, a minor, tried, as they were advised they must, his title to Five Oaks, by ejectment.

If the trustees, Smith the pork-butcher, old Captain Snoggles, the Town Clerk, and the rest, had to wait some twenty minutes in the drawing-room at the Lodge, so much the better.

With this as her background, and a fight she provoked as cause, the trustees determined Karigan should spend some time at home and reconsider her reasons for being here.

Master Deleon and myself speaking on her behalf before the trustees, Karigan was suspended.

As the two trustees glare at each other, Jeremy glances towards the hall, remembering the tramp.

The caretaker has to get up while the other trustees are in bed, he acknowledges ruefully.

Even in meetings of trustees, the college hierarchy cannot be forgotten.

Then, again, trustees are so circumscribed nowadays that they are afraid to do anything.

At least until after I meet with the board of trustees this morning and try to talk some sense into them.

But money was plentiful then, and Rae rationalized that if nice surroundings made the board of trustees a better decision-making entity, then so be it.

Silas Peckham reckoned with perfect confidence on his Trustees, who had always said what he told them to, and done what he wanted.

I shell, with the permission of the Trustees, make sech noo arrangements as circumstahnces compel.

They were my bosses, the trustees of The Foundation, appointed for life to oversee the accrual, investment and expenditure of the funds.

They would need the assurance in writing from my trustees, they told me.

For a long time, the trustees had pushed to get Thomas to switch to full-time so he would be eligible for the post, but now Ballantine had doubts even if Kingsley would agree.