How To Use Ladyship In A Sentence
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Town himself in his own caroche, till he heard of your Ladyship's trouble, and then he cast about to know of some friend that was going, so he might leave it for you.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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I merely tried to deliver a letter to Her Ladyship, as an elevated person charged me to do.
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Does Your Ladyship require anything?
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King Charles, when he took his disjune at Tillietudlem, was particular in enquiring "--" I see the Duke's carriage in motion, "said Gilbertscleugh, partaking at the moment an alarm common to all Lady Margaret's friends, when she touched upon the topic of the royal visit at the family mansion, --" I see the Duke's carriage in motion; I presume your ladyship will take your right of rank in leaving the field.
Old Mortality, Complete
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-- This was the first day I changed my mourning; -- a white lutestring, with the fine suit of rough garnets your Ladyship gave me, was my dress on the occasion.
Barford Abbey
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His actress wife, known respectfully as Her Ladyship, is kind but baffled.
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And though such noble ladies, as your ladyship and Lady Betty, who are born to independency, and are hereditarily, as I may say, on a foot with the highest-descended gentleman in the land, might have exerted a spirit, and would have a right to choose your own servants, and to distribute rewards and punishments to the deserving and undeserving, at your own good pleasure; yet what had
Pamela
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However, when Katherine arrived at the palace for the first party of the season, she could not discover her Ladyship among the many elegant ladies crowding the ball room.
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Perhaps we could come to some arrangement, your Ladyship.
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While her ladyship declaimed, the clergyman's wandering eye confessed his absent mind; his thoughts travelling, perhaps, to accomplish a truce betwixt Saladin and Conrade of Mountserrat, unless they chanced to be occupied with some occurrences of that very day, so that the lady was obliged to recall her indocile auditor with the leading question, "You are well acquainted with Dryden, of course, Mr. Cargill?
St. Ronan's Well
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Her Ladyship
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‘I'll help you sort her Ladyship out,’ he said with a sigh. ‘Where is she?’
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Maybe her ladyship had "registered a vow" never to syllable a name unchronicled by Debrett, or was actually only mystifying me for mere amusement.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
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Your Honours will see at page 731 that in the part of the reasons that goes from a through to g, her Ladyship discusses the fact that the authorities amply illustrate there is no approach which is free from difficulty.
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It would be humiliating for her ladyship and infuriating for her.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Her ladyship will not be pleased when she hears about this.
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As to what Her Ladyship had to say about the proms I can sum up thus: codswallop, which is code for ‘balderdash’.
Archive 2008-03-09
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Dinner was announced, we sat ourselves down at the silver-laden candle-lit table, Her Ladyship played five-finger exercises of conversation at the far end of the table, His Lordship and I discussed business at the other.
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Brantefield's cause of belief, first: her ladyship declared that she never wore Sir Josseline's ring without putting on after it a _guard ring_, a ring which, being tighter than Sir Josseline's, kept it safe on her finger.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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Isabella, your servant, Madam, being sensible of the insociable and solitary life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son in Futuro, to kiss your hands, I beseech your Ladyship to know him son your humble servant: my Son and your Nephew Madam are coming, with the Musick too, we mean to pass the whole day with your Ladyship: — and see they are here.
Sir Patient Fancy
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I'll see if His Grace is up yet, Your Ladyship.
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It was most vexing, especially, when her Ladyship turned in Kathleen's direction to speak, placing Kathleen in the most uncomfortable disposition.
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Everyone exchanged bows; then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Your Ladyship's judgment is clear, and what I do not propose to do is to run through the arguments already heard in front of you, which are recorded clearly in the judgment.
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Her Ladyship added that ‘a number of new requests were subsequently made by the Rochamel Development.’
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With this melancholy account he left the room; and soon after her ladyship entered, with an air of interesting languor, and most attractingly dressed in an elegantly deshabille, of fine muslin, trimmed with beautiful lace.
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families
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‘Your Ladyship,’ he began, stammering uncontrolledly, ‘Your Ladyship, I have just received some dire news.’
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Mrs. Newcome can scarcely be called his grandmamma, I suppose; and I daresay her Methodistical ladyship will not care to see the daughter and grandson of a clergyman of the Church of England!
The Newcomes
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If your ladyship will step this way, please.
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“If I should say a thousand Noes, there exists not the alchymy in living man that could extract one Yes out of the whole mass,” said her ladyship.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Eagerly I tore it open, and instantly recognized the elegant handwriting of her ladyship -- not a blot, not a misformed letter marred the beautiful chirography of the missive; it was written with the same grace and precision that had in former days characterized her ladyship's notes of invitation to her splendid parties.
Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
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She draws a klezmer band from Poland, a didgeridoo player from Australia, African dancers, and Scottish bagpipers, but the main competition comes from one family, all of whom have personal links to Her Ladyship.
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Chia Cheng was already aware that it was a lichee, but he designedly made a few guesses at random, and was fined several things; but he subsequently gave, at length, the right answer, and also obtained a present from her ladyship.
Hung Lou Meng
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Her Ladyship is down for the weekend, so the latest entry into the Idiot of the Week hall of fame is just going to have to wait.
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In that case ye need not wonder that her ladyship inby should ken all, for I'm thinking it was a very informing bit letter, though the exact wording of it has slipped my recollection.
Doom Castle
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May I therefore beg that your Ladyship will so far favour me as to use the caroche as your own, from this day until
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Her ladyship told me what a sweet gal she was — hamiable, fond of poetry, plays the gitter.
Burlesques
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Lord Talboys 'return thither to place herself under his lordship's protection; as if the enormous Bowman was not protector sufficient for her ladyship; and as if Captain Hicks would have allowed any mortal man, any German student, any French tourist, any Prussian whiskerando, to do
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
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There's no one in the whole of London who will disagree with the fact that Her Ladyship is a virago, plain and simple.
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This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
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Your auntie is going over to Merrybrow Hall to-morrow to inquire about this little Master Phil from my Lady Lavander, for we think it's at one of her ladyship's farms that he and his nurse are staying, and if she hears that he's a nice-mannered little gentleman, and comes of good parents – why, missie, there's no saying but that you'll get leave to play with him as much as you like.
The Cuckoo Clock
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Watch out, Jill her ladyship is in one of her moods!
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Your ladyship should know about my beliefs and frankly your behaviour disgusts me.
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Weightily she is informed that "her ladyship" has tea served sometimes in that part of the garden which is called the rosery, sometimes on the front lawn, and the butler adds the cryptic information, "according as to whether her ladyship desires to see visitors or not.
The End of Her Honeymoon
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I am so glad to trigger happy memories of past love for you my Ladyship, and that the object of desire was a steady old Dormobile rather than one of those flash Volkswagen Devon Conversions.
Sliding Doors
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I wasn't sure whether Her Ladyship would accept my proposal, and it rather unravelled my nerves.
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Well, I reckon, marster, as you would call her sich, ef you heerd de plot she and my lordship and de shamwalley made up 'gin my ladyship.
Self-Raised
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“Pray, who mentioned money, Mr. Meiklewham?” said her ladyship. — “That wretched old pettifogger,” she added in
Saint Ronan's Well
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My husband's typist," said her ladyship as she helped Hemingway to tea, "is a copatriot of yours.
The Lost Road
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Nor, as he had before thankfully observed, did her ladyship enamel her nails to the likeness of blood-stained talons.
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By r lady, your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Everyone exchanged bows; then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
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Rosalynn saw the first ladyship as a position that, like the presidency, makes its occupant accountable to all the people.
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A veiy good rebuke of affectation, said Six – Charles (and your ladyship hints it was an effica — cious one).
Sir Charles Grandison
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Madam," now announced Hans from the door, "the baggage is packed, and the caroche awaiteth your Ladyship.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Everyone exchanged bows; then her ladyship, overwhelming in bronze bombazine, regally glided away.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Her Ladyship held that constructive knowledge, in the sense that the customer had the means of knowledge, was not enough.
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What does her Ladyship desire me to do/desire of me?
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I was privileged to dine with the family and sat across from her Ladyship and on the right of Lord Donovan.
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The dining lounge has been prepared, will her Ladyship and the gentleman be joining you?
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When his lordship was in his study, our daffing was in Gaelic, for her ladyship, though a Morton, and only learning the language, loved to have it spoken about her.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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But he's tried the same fawning with my Ladyship, and with as little effect.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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After the recessional Croft waited until the exodus had abated, nodded silently to her ladyship as she passed down the aisle, and followed the stragglers out.
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Willis, her ladyship over acts her part — she not only expatiates on the ample fortune, the great connexions, and the unblemished character of Mr Barton, but she takes the trouble to catechise me; and, two days ago, peremptorily told me, that a girl of my age could not possibly resist so many considerations, if her heart was not pre-engaged.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Your Ladyship
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Sounding like a harpy from the barricades of Paris, Her Ladyship preached wholesale war on Dukes and Earls.
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[Page 67] * This accomplished comment to human nature was the widow of the late Willoughby lord Middleton of Woolaton in Nottinghamshire, and wife of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. of Shipley in the county of Derby, by whom her ladyship had one daughter now living.
Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson
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Creature; so it prov'd a Misfortune to me; for hereupon my Mother prohibited me my Garret-Closet, and my Walk on the Leads; lest I should encounter more Adventures, not only like this, but perhaps more pernicious: So that being depriv'd of my solitary Retreat, your Ladyship cannot expect much of Verse or Poetick Fancies whereof to make
A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
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The prioress is quite well and happy; she is much better than I am, and she is also exceedingly devoted to your ladyship.
The Letters of St. Teresa
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_ _Isabella_, your Servant, Madam: being sensible of the insociable and solitary Life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son _in Futuro_, to kiss your Hands,
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
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But he's tried the same fawning with my Ladyship, and with as little effect.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Imagine the traffic snarls which would happen if Her Ladyship went to work.
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I pause there, your Honours, to say, with the greatest respect to her Ladyship, that is, in fact, a very crucial observation.
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See, lackaday! the lady of Dolberg's beautiful chamois skin that was to be dyed of a delicate green for her ladyship's slippers.
The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace
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They seem to be a quite extraordinary people; Lord Granville writes from Petersburg that Lady Wodehouse's Russian maid was found eating the contents of one of her ladyship's dressing-table pots - it was castor oil pomatum for the hair!
Fiancée
