the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet

The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.

The building occupied by the United States Congress at Washington; the house occupied by a State legislature.

The temple of Jupiter at Rome, built on the top of a hill: in the U. S. the house where Congress meets.

A temple at Rome; the house where Congress meets.

The official building of Congress; a State house.

The temple of Jupiter Maximus in ancient Rome, or the hill on which it stood.

A temple and citadel in Rome, on the Capitoline rock, dedicated to Jupiter; in the U. S. the edifice in which Congress meets; the senate- house of a state.

The temple of Jupiter; a fort or castle in Rome where the senate of anc. Rome met; the building occupied by the parliament or Congress of the U. S. of Amer.

What have you been doing at the Capitol? – Democracy An American Novel by Henry Adams

For the middle part Kent burst out of the telephone- box and took the nearest short- cut through the capitol grounds for the street- car corner. – The Grafters by Francis Lynde

To her the marble Capitol shining on its hill was a sacred temple, and the great shaft that struck upward through the sunlight, though yet unfinished, a fitting memorial to him who had led the barefoot soldiers of the colonies through ridicule to victory. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

It was carried on in sight of the windows of the capitol. – Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy

A little farther on, they all stopped still on a corner of the street, while the school- master pointed out to Chad and Dolph and Rube the Capitol- a mighty structure of massive stone, with majestic stone columns, where people went to the Legislature. – The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox

Mr. Earle, he went to the capitol with me to see the governor. – Frank of Freedom Hill by Samuel A. Derieux

For a quarter of a century he saw the Union flag float over the Capitol of his chosen State. – The Little Book of the Flag by Eva March Tappan

It was in 1764, while musing amidst, the ruins of the Capitol of Rome, that the idea of writing " The Decline and Fall" of the city first started into his mind. – The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. by Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

Beyond the latter tower was the general prison of the Capitol. – Rienzi by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Lutorius, who was near them, explained: There is a big fire somewhere the other side of the Capitol. – The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

Their departure however was a serious loss to us, as they played somewhat the same part that the geese once did in the Capitol; for whenever our sable neighbours made the slightest movement the watchful sentinels of the cockatoos instantly detected it and, by stretching out their crests, screaming, standing on their toes on the highest trees, with their wings spread abroad to support them, and peering eagerly in the direction where the movement was made, they gave us faithful intimation of every motion. – Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Grey

They arrived early enough to go over the Capitol, seated at the head of a broad but precipitous street. – Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S. C. Smith

Finally, on the 15th of February, the Populist house retreated from the chamber, leaving the Republicans in possession, and proceeded to transact business of state in the corridor of the Capitol. – The Agrarian Crusade A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics by Solon J. Buck

When the Union troops entered the city, Captain Driver asked permission to run up his flag over the State Capitol. – The Little Book of the Flag by Eva March Tappan

And Nighthawk set out at a rapid pace, through the grounds of the capitol, toward the lower part of the city. – Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke

As he did so, the bell in the capitol square struck midnight, and I rose to take my departure. – Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke

At that moment we arrived at the Capitol steps. – The-Brick-Moon-and-Other-Stories by Hale, Edward Everett

The ranch- house of the Maltese Cross has been moved to Bismarck, where it stands, wind- beaten and neglected, in the shadow of the capitol. – Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

The Capitol, the White House, the departments, the public buildings are all full of men who came yesterday and are going to- morrow. – From the Easy Chair, series 3 by George William Curtis