Meanings of little coterie in English

Then he whirled like a maniac upon his little coterie of followers.

Would a little coterie, who lived by gambling, have made this offer?

We were not many, fortunately,-onlyMr. Fox's little coterie.

There will be a select little coterie.

Often he met other members of the select little coterie that dropped in for tea of an afternoon.

On the small scale we see this melancholy perversity of conduct exemplified in every little coterie and school of unbelievers.

From private parlors and drawing-rooms the controversy soon reached the little coterie that constituted the official family of President Jackson.

The diplomatic corps entertained our little coterie, which included those Mexicans who were willing to mix with the foreign element.

He did not take the precaution, as a wise man would have done, of surrounding himself with a little coterie.

Power is concentrated in the hands of a little coterie of plutocrats-thepeople are sovereigns de jure and slaves de facto.

A few moments afterwards, that officer entered the room now wholly deserted save by the little coterie near the fire place.

This was a terrible grief to all the little coterie of friends, for whom the Allston house had been a home.

The society of Victoria was so indifferent, that it would be desirable to form a pleasant little coterie of one's own.

Tufis,-itwas the calm, even tones of Rachel Bond's voice that fell upon the startled ears of the little coterie of gossipers.

Valmond appeared not to see the little coterie, but presently turned, when just opposite the gate, and, raising his hat, half paused.

Certainly, at least, he made a little coterie apart in that family of three, and it was the husband who was shut out.