diplomatic office

He was the grandson of an Irish peer, but his father had long filled some diplomatic office in Berlin.

In a pecuniary point of view, too, he had not fared badly during his twenty years of diplomatic office.

It has been customary to define in the appropriation acts the rank of each diplomatic office to which a salary is attached.

Why should not Maurice—you both tell me to call him so—take the diplomatic office which has been offered him?

He was an old man, the last that had held a diplomatic office under Washington.