It is not prorogation that is the immediate business, but the subjection of the minority more than ever to the rule of the majority and its wire-pullers who stand behind it, the outvoting them by majorities.
"Letters From Rome on the Council"
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
But the more noble minded of the authorities approved of the piper none the less for his independence, a generosity partly rooted, it must be confessed, in the amusement which the annoyance of their weaker brethren afforded them-whom at last they were happily successful in outvoting, so that the bagpipes superseded the drum for a season.
"Malcolm"
George MacDonald