cardinalship

How To Use cardinalship In A Sentence

• Cambrai might rely upon advancement to a cardinalship, and steps were taken, but without any good result, to bring about that event. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• I excused myself by saying that I had taken a resolution never to accept of the cardinalship by any means which seemed to have relation to the civil wars, to the end that I might convince the Queen that it was the most rigid necessity which had separated me from her service. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• Cardinal to secure the advancement of the Abbe d'Auvergne, that he had already made a daring and fraudulent attempt to procure for him a cardinalship. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this difference, that they were finished and he was completed. Les Miserables
• It was in 1961, and Croetine's uncle-my great-uncle-had been appointed to a cardinalship and was then stationed at the Vatican. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
• He wished to arrive at the cardinalship, and to further his views he thought it advisable to ingratiate himself into the favour of Monsieur de Bourgogne. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• Gentlemen, I think you will thank me for giving you an associate like M. d'Orleans, to whom I give my nomination to the cardinalship. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• Regent, and still looked forward to a cardinalship as the reward of his scheming, his baseness, and his perfidy. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• His archbishopric and his nomination to the cardinalship required more discussion. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete