Council of Ten
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Under the Inspector General Act, anonymous denunciations thrive in Washington as they have rarely done since the Council of Ten in the Venice of the doges.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the golden staircase one goes to the council chambers,—the hall of the Senate, the Council of Ten, and the Council of Three.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian
By some secret mode of election the names of those who composed this council were not known even to their associates in the Senate or in the Council of Ten.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
The meetings at the Doge's house had not escaped the notice of the Council of Ten, although it had been impossible to learn anything with certainty.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
I was then before the Secretary of the Council of Ten, the crafty politician who at that time held Florence in his hand, and with whose name all Italy was full.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)
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