The faces of those who were not conferring together were pale and perturbed.
Bruce was conferring at Dumfries with John Comyn, the late regent, whom he was endeavouring to tempt into his plots, on the 10th of January 1306.
In 1873 Gladstone attempted to complete his great Irish measures by conferring on Ireland the advantage of a university which would be equally acceptable to Protestants and Roman Catholics.
It also proposed an easement, conferring recognition of private rights of way for owners.
A group of men clad in fluorescent yellow jackets are conferring up on the roof.