Coterie

I think Bush's coterie is wiping its ass with the Star Spangled Banner .... ❋ Unknown (2010)

The record label coterie at least had good reason for putting up a fight to the end. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our little coterie is the object of great envy; we live just as we like, without thinking of other people, which I am not sure here is prudent, but it is pleasant, which is a better thing. ❋ Unknown (1769)

Fact is there are people in the Lib Dems who would give many Tories a run for their right wing laissez faire money and Clegg and his coterie are a case in point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This guy and his coterie are a bunch of lunatics, and we cannot just stand by and wring our hands because we think we're too high-minded to get down in the dirt with these scumbags. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our president and his coterie are our protectors, as well as defenders of freedom and democracy. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Bi-coastal, Ivy-League trained elites - that is, politicos like Barak Obama - wield great power in American society, but his coterie is a vast minority of the population, and the alliance between elites and non-elites in America is usually tenuous and temporary (not all elites are leftist, of course). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or perhaps the 'loaded language' of which Malkin not alas the wonderful Michelle Malkin complains, just after describing the traditionalist bishops as a 'coterie'. ❋ Laban (2003)

Prince Mcwayizeni Zulu and his "coterie" of Zulu Royal family members should "heed the message before it is too late". ❋ Unknown (1994)

The _Athenæum_ takes up the 'Tales from Boccaccio' as if they were worth it, and imputes in an underground way the authorship to the members of the 'coterie' so called -- do you observe _that_? ❋ Robert Browning (1850)

It was thus with all the fine quintessences of ancient lore, with all the pearl-like accretions of the faiths and fancies of the old world: they were handled about freely as a kind of curious but not so very rare coins, which found no currency in the deeper thoughts of our modern humanity, and could therefore be used as a mere badge of the learning and taste of a literary 'coterie'. ❋ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1824)

Secondly, prairie dogs are a bit like teenage gang members - they almost never move about within their towns, instead staying within a small territory or neighbourhood belonging to their own "coterie". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Koirala practised 'coterie' politics; relatives and associates indulged in large-scale corruption; and he marginalised senior party leaders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Athenaeum takes up the 'Tales from Boccaccio' as if they were worth it, and imputes in an underground way the authorship to the members of the 'coterie' so called ” do you observe that? ❋ Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (1898)

In 1940, Christian joined the coterie that created bebop, but he died of TB aged only 25. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To say that this was entirely unexpected by the small coterie which knew him, would be to say an untruth; and yet never once had we, his intimates, ever canvassed the idea. ❋ Unknown (2010)