How To Use Lordship In A Sentence
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Yet at the end of this period, as at the beginning, the influence of lordship in society was pervasive.
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God answers our prayers because by addressing them to Him we acknowledge His Lordship and power.
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Their Lordships did not agree.
Times, Sunday Times
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If I had not come your Lordship would have said: this is a very important matter, I need an amicus.
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Next morning, his lordship and friends, accompanied by the high and low bailiffs, walked to view the manufactory of Mr. Clay, japanner in ordinary to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the sword manufactory of
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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When in 1254 he created an apanage for his eldest son, Edward, two of its principal components were the lordship of Ireland and the earldom of Chester, within which was comprised several Welsh lordships.
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And "My lorde useth and accustomyth yerly to gyf hym which is ordynede to be Master of the Revells yerly in my lordis hous in Cristmas for the overseyinge and orderinge of his lordschips Playes, Interludes, and Dresinge that is plaid befor his lordship in his hous in the XII dayes of Christenmas, and they to have in rewarde for that caus yerly, xxs.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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I 'm sartin it's fair play ye want; an' I canna for the life o 'me see a hair o' wrang i 'yer lordship's gaein' in a cogue, as auld
Malcolm
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I thoucht yer lordship wad like to see an auld stair I cam upo 'the ither day,' at gang's frae the wizard's chaumer.
Malcolm
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At the same time Wales was divided into counties or shires, some of which were based on and named after the ancient lordships.
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Who hath done you this injury, I know not, but Time hath shown that his lordship's twin brother, Lord Stephen Rome, lately decd., with whom the
Anthony Lyveden
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`No need to lock your door and switch on your scrambler, I'm not after His Lordship.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.
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The red-coated, many-antlered buck acknowledged the lordship of the spirit of the place and dozed knee-deep in the cool, shaded pool.
All Gold Canon
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In view of their Lordships, however, such a contention is not maintainable.
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His Lordship was inclined to think that it did.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Lordship considered that, by misconstruing the words in the statute, the judge had made an error of law that went to jurisdiction.
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The frank smile that told of his lordship's enjoyment of her discomfiture was the last straw.
Out of the Primitive
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His LORDSHIP therefore used to mix some institutionary reading with them, as after a fulness of the reports in a morning, about noon, to take a repast in
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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His Lordship concluded that it did not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ill would it beseem my habit and my calling, to thrust myself into match-making and giving in marriage, but worse were it in me to see your lordships do needless wrong to the feelings which are proper to our nature, and which, being indulged honestly and under the restraints of religion, become a pledge of domestic quiet here, and future happiness in a better world.
The Monastery
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Merchant hath founded so many chargeable Lectures, and some of them also which are Mathematicall, tending to the aduancement of Marine causes; I nothing doubted of your Lordships forwardnes in settling and establishing of this Lecture: but rather when your Lordship shall see the noble and rare effects thereof, you will be heartily sory that all this while it hath not bene erected.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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His Lordship was inclined to think that it did.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever it was he went too far and his lordship just parcelled him up and sent him away, as quick as you like.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The process continued through subsequent phases alongside the transformation of landed lordship into territorial lordship.
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That's Italian for " cheerio " or "see ya," according to His Lordship who is busy these days with his dictionaries and phrase books.
52449_CLARA
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I have communicated it to the Speaker, (who is arrived from Mallow) and 'he desires me to make his con) plim. ents to your Lordship, and directs me to assure you, that he has the fullest sense, as I most. certainly have, of your Lordship's wise and spirited conduct upon this occasion.
Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont
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I am happy to be able to tell Your Lordship that an amicable agreement has been reached between the claimants and the defendant which achieves exactly that.
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It is a great pleasure to welcome your lordship this evening.
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His Lordship drew no distinction as to the scope of review for inferior courts and administrative institutions.
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Their Lordships then considered the position under international law.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your Lordship
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Would you have the gauger's wife, sister?" inquired Blanche, with a face of renewed perplexity: "I think my dear Lady Maria would be pleased if I bid the dame - for the gauger is a good friend of his Lordship - hot-headed, they say, but that does not make him the worse - and his dame takes it kindly to be noticed.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Their Lordships agreed with the trial judge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile the Earl Spencer to whom he desired that his "Remains" should be dedicated passed away, and the title descended first to your lordship's uncle, then to your lordship's father, and lastly to your lordship.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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I understand your lordship is an Earl," said poor Jim.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Lordship’s death, in the Spanish campaign, in the year 1811, his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs, and his title merged in their superior rank; but it does not appear that the
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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“I have done him!” he said, exultingly, yet in a tone of voice lowered almost to a whisper; “capotted his lordship for this bout — doubled my capital, Mick, and something more. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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Gien yer lordship likes to see yer ain ferlies, I ken whaur some
Malcolm
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For God has absolute and paramount lordship over the creature wholly and singly, which is entirely subject to His power: whereas man partakes of a certain likeness to the divine lordship, forasmuch as he exercises a particular power over some man or creature.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment.
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Lordship's death, in the Spanish campaign, in the year 1811, his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs, and his title merged in their superior rank; but it does not appear that the Marquis of
Barry Lyndon
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I find him soe disciplinable, and soe desirous to repare ye time Lost, yt I make no question but your Lordship shall receive a great ioye. "[
English Travellers of the Renaissance
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The _enfants terrible_ had wilily caught his lordship in the corridor, and made their own terms.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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His Lordship's initial impression was that the case fitted more readily into a contractual than a proprietary slot.
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And although your Lordship will doubtless proceed, I must warn you through my experience of European affairs, heedfully, that the reasons that operate in this small presidio, which is surrounded by barbarians and hostile nations, have no place in populous cities.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Love and lordship never like fellowship.
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Effectively, their Lordships' decision enables banks to charge compound interest even at the penalty rate chargeable upon the customer's default.
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His Lordship also rejected the second argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do have one further matter to trouble your Lordship with if that is convenient.
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Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
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Your Lordships will find that he never is a rebel to one party without being a tyrant to some others; that _rebel_ and _tyrant_ are correlative terms, when applied to him, and that they constantly go together.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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May it please your good Lordship, That albeit we attend here on my Lady Elizabeth's Grace, our Mistress ... we do not forget our most bounden Duty, nor yet our Readiness in Words and Deeds to serve her Highness [Queen Mary] by all the Ways and Means that may stand in Us, both from her Grace, our Mistress, and of our own Parts also .. .166
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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By contrast, the Tudors had no natural ties with Ireland and the English north where good rule and good lordship were seen to depend far more heavily on effective arrangements for defence.
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Would you like me to make them now, or would your Lordship prefer to hear from Mr K. first?
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The condition of omnipotent lordship, then, becomes the reverse of what it wants to be: dependent, static, and unessential.
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His Lordship could not accept that.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour.
Venus and Adonis
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It is possible that the Senoussi tribe will emerge from Benghazi's chaos and reassert its historic overlordship of eastern Libya.
Eric Margolis: After Bombing Libya, What Now?
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Can his lordship manage to switch off the TV?
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Well Miss Mollie I had a good laugh at the Sergt Maj When I told him what you wrotehe is such a modest young man, it made him blush. he is perfectly carried a way and if you send many more such messages to him he will go up the Spot. but I have not much fears about you & his Lordship [unclear: getting] married for this reason. he is so very diffident and your shiness of man; Will make it a matter of impossibility to get up a match With out calling in the Third person & of course that Will be my self, of course, and of course, you Will find out that I will do all in my Power to brake up the match as I have an Intrist in your future Welfare myself.
Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864
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Toler's reason for it was that he was too _constitutional_ to interfere with a jury, Be that as it may, a nonsuit was a nonentity, 'I hope, my Lord,' said counsel in a case actually commanding one, 'your Lordship will, for once, have the courage to nonsuit?
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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No such argument has been advanced in the present case, and their Lordships need say nothing about it.
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Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
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His Lordship was inclined to think that it did.
Times, Sunday Times
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The grant of the lordship of Ireland could be interpreted as leaving the papacy as ultimate feudal overlord and thus make possible a native appeal against the king of England.
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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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Lord Ashley was a well-known philanthropist, and his consistent support and patronage of many religious and charitable societies had naturally given him popularity among the Protestant clergy of all denominations, -- a popularity heightened in the case of the Evangelical and Calvinistic ministers by his Lordship's strict Sabbatarianism and his belief in cold dinners on
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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His Lordship had concluded that the judgment of the district judge was flawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Lordship could not accept that that exercise had always to be conducted again.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have done him!" he said, exultingly, yet in a tone of voice lowered almost to a whisper; "capotted his lordship for this bout -- doubled my capital, Mick, and something more.
St. Ronan's Well
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Henry V showed firmness tempered by conciliation in dealing with Welshmen immediately after the rebellion collapsed, and marcher lords were ordered to attend to their lordships.
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His Lordship is not quite so profligate of his money,' said Thackeray drily.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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His Lordship concluded that the interpretation exception should be recognised for the following reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would your Lordship order the claimant to pay the Secretary of State's costs?
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“You should never let those troubles touch you so closely,” said his lordship, whose own withers at this moment were by no means unwrung.
The American Senator
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Secondly, care must be taken that this evil be no more cockered, nor the humor of it fed; wherein I humbly pray your lordships, that I may speak my mind freely, and yet be understood aright.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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Come, lordship," Sleet said again, holding his ermine robe of office out to him.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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a certain game at gleek, and a certain mournival of aces held by his lordship, which went for eight -- tib, which went for fifteen -- twenty - three in all.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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All these matters were outside His Lordship's terms of reference.
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The resurrection celebrates his powerful demonstration over the effects of sin and his lordship over the historical intentions of the evil one.
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I must allow him, notwithstanding his relationship to your lordship, the privileges of a rational person, and either batoon him sufficiently to expiate the violence offered to my person, or else bring it to a matter of mortal arbitrament, as becometh an insulted cavalier. ''
A Legend of Montrose
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His Lordship drew no distinction as to the scope of review for inferior courts and administrative institutions.
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His Lordship considered that argument unsatisfactory for two connected reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Lordship could not accept that.
Times, Sunday Times
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A great chest was filled with the ornaments of the churches -- sacred vessels, such as chalices, patens, monstrances, censers, chrismatories, etc. -- which we have now most carefully returned to their owners; so that your Reverence was enabled to fill four floats with these ornaments, in the solemn procession which his Lordship held in Manila on Trinity Sunday, in thanksgiving to God for the victory.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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His Lordship considered that argument unsatisfactory for two connected reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Isabella now sent Henry of Lancaster to the lordship of Glamorgan to hunt down the king and the younger Despenser.
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His Lordship had concluded that the judgment of the district judge was flawed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Lordship considered it impossible to limit the application of the new formula in that way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lordships and lands to the living, -- glory and salvation to those who die under the gonfanon of the Church!
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
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We have now arrived at the commencement of the long dispute about the "overlordship".
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
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His Lordship
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His Lordship expressed the hope that the Law Commission might look at the subject.
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The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety.
Shakespeare and the Supremes
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The settlers were moving out on their own, creating new social units - manors, lordships, abbeys, bourgs - where none had existed before.
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Love and lordship like no fellowship.
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Wherefore we most heartily provoke, challenge, and defy your Lordship to the said combat and monomachy, and have sent these letters by the hand of our well beloved and royal brother Edmund, sometime King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, Knight of the Noble Order of the Table, to whom we have given full power of determining with your Lordship all the conditions of the said battle.
Prince Caspian
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Upon the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241 his two granddaughters became heiresses to his lands and lordships in England, the Welsh Marches, and Ireland.
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Whereas Matthew and Luke spoke directly of the kings of the gentiles, Mark was decidedly ironic in speaking of those who supposedly rule over the Gentiles and wield lordship over them.
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Nonetheless, the evolution of the Irish landscape and Irish lordship were moving in the same general directions as changes that could be found across a large swathe of central England and parts of Wales.
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Their Lordships implied no criticism of counsel.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the power of Carolo Augosto did not hail from the Pope, but instead from his lordship over the Franks, and, to a lesser extent, the Lombards.
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If a follower didn't like the way he was being treated by one particular lord in one lordship, he could and frequently did move elsewhere the following year.
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At 4.00 p.m. on Sunday there will be a public meeting at which His Lordship, Bishop Lee will speak.
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Having decided that Mr. Justice Jones was correct in the first instance to dismiss the case, holding that there was no triable issue, their Lordships had no need to go any further.
2009 May : Law is Cool
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Events in Greece during Alexander's Asian expedition show how closely the history of the Greek city-state under Macedonian overlordship related to the history of the classical city-state.
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And your Lordship will, of course, note that the claimant was represented by a silk and junior in this case.
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But the point had been fully argued and his Lordship would consider it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crucial question is whether it is appropriate for your Lordships to do so.
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His Lordship articulated three grounds for judicial review: illegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety.
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The only other issue, my Lord, is that I appreciate that since this is obiter it is unlikely on its own to attract your Lordship to the question of assessment of damages.
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Seignorial rights of this kind were commonly less dependent on lordship over ploughland, and less concerned with labour services, than the classic model of the manor would imply.
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My Lord, I do not propose to rehearse the arguments that were put forward by Mr Kovats and, indeed, that your Lordship has considered in the judgment.
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His Lordship was also unimpressed by the argument that the council ought to be liable because they had actually inspected the ramp.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Lord Grenville's office of auditor of the exchequer was thought incompatible with that of first lord of the treasury, and as his lordship was unwilling to resign that lucrative office, a bill was subsequently brought into parliament empowering him to name a responsible trustee for holding auditorship so long as he should continue premier.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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At his lordship's death in the Spanish campaign in the year 1811,his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs.
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Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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Bernard's son, Albert I, added to this territory the lordship of Lauenburg, and Albert's sons divided the possessions into
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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-- There is certainly a strong likeness between the Marquis and Lord Darcey; -- _so strong_, that when I first beheld his Lordship I was quite struck with surprize.
Barford Abbey
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They are questions which we would invite your Lordship to certify as questions of general public importance.
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His Lordship considered the latter the more probable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It continues an old imperialism, unreflectively enjoying its discursive overlordship over South Asia by presenting India and Pakistan as "rivals," as if that is what a billion and a half people think of all the time.
Vamsee Juluri: How the West Lost Us: A Critique of Media Coverage of the Mumbai Attacks
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His Lordship would reject that distinction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can I show your Lordships the paragraphs that we have asterisked?
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The fruit of their union, William, acquired the lordship of Nithsdale and the sheriffship of Dumfries.
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As to his defence having been abandoned, we refer your Lordships to the last petition laid by him upon your table, (that libellous petition, which we speak of as a libel upon the House of Commons,) and which has no validity but as it asserts a matter of fact from the petitioner; and there you will find that he has declared explicitly, that, for the accommodation and ease of this business, and for its expedition, he did abandon his defence at a certain period.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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It is a great pleasure to welcome your lordship this evening.
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The same as I told Mother Cloam — a man that knoweth his duty to head gardeners, as his noble lordship doth, the same know the differ atwixt Miss Faith — as fine a young
Springhaven
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When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.
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He was overlord of vast lands hereabouts, the only earl south-east of Forth, feudal superior over many lordships and baronies.
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The officer was obliged, at last, to appease his hunger with a luncheon of bread and cheese, and a pint bottle of brandy, which he dispatched in the coach, cursing the inappetence of his lordship, who had ordered dinner to be put back a whole hour.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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It was pleasant to see the grace with which he lost his money, and the sweet intimacy with which he called his lordship
The Way We Live Now
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“Remains” should be dedicated passed away, and the title descended first to your lordship's uncle, then to your lordship's father, and lastly to your lordship.
Life and Remains of John Clare
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Love and lordship like no fellowship.
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THE 52-year-old farmer from Wistow Lordship near Selby works a mixed arable and cattle farm that has been in his family's hands for a century.
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In this context ties of kindred were tightened by lordship rather than loosened.
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Your Lordship has given clear and unequivocal ruling which is consistent with the position adopted in other member states.
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“What the deil, man — I crave your lordship’s pardon for swearing — but it was no cathedral — only a lurking-place called the king’s lugg, or ear, where he could sit undescried, and hear the converse of his prisoners.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol!
George Cruikshank
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But the point had been fully argued and his Lordship would consider it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authority of the English crown in Ireland rested ultimately on the grant of the lordship in the alleged breve Laudibiliter.
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The generalisation of a contemporary writer was that, ‘everything was for sale, powers, lordships, earldoms, shrievalties, castles, towns, manors, and suchlike’ was indeed not far from the truth.
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It was not till they reached the dessert stage that his lordship indulged in any very informative comment, and then he recounted to Stephen the details of a recent case in which he considered that the presiding judge had, by an unprecedented paralogy, misinterpreted the law of evidence.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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His Lordship added that it may be that these considerations would also justify a finding of negligence.
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Their Lordships did not accept that construction.
Times, Sunday Times
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His Lordship considered that argument unsatisfactory for two connected reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Johnson peppered Swing with demands for background information about the Imperial Valley, “particularly ... the hold of the banks and the tyranny of those who hold the mortgages, the newspaper ownership, the Chandler overlordship, etc.”
Colossus
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Gud, my lord, it is vastly old-fashioned in your lordship to taste Shakespeare!" protested Sir Ralph Masaroon, shaking a cloud of pulvilio out of his cataract of curls.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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Lordship strode in, escorted by the crimson-gowned, fur-betrimmed City
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893
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The impact Norman castles have made on the development of Britain's landscapes and townscapes thus reflects many dimensions of medieval power and lordship.
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The landowning peasants and village elites who were subjected to signorial lordship normally remained landowners, and still were when signorial powers faded again in the thirteenth century.
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The use of pejorative terms, however, served to paint such encounters in a different light which would then lend support to the conclusion at which their Lordships arrived.
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Next morning, his lordship and friends, accompanied by the high and low bailiffs, walked to view the manufactory of Mr. Clay, japanner in ordinary to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the sword manufactory of
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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During the last weeks of Martin's wooing, she had withdrawn herself a little from the business of the farm into a kind of overlordship, from which she was far more free to detach herself than from personal service.
Joanna Godden
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Hilly, wooded, and marshy regions, marginal from a settler point of view, were capable of functioning as core areas of native lordship.
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His Lordship considered the latter the more probable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the pattern, his lordship regularly exposing a gap in the government armour, only to plug it soon afterwards.
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His Lordship agreed with that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dorrington's hospitality save when his lordship was present, for your cricket-player is a bit more punctilious in such matters than your turfmen or ring-side habitués.
R. Holmes & Co.
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‘Then, Sir, (said Davies, who enlivened the dispute by making it somewhat dramatick,) he may become an insurer; and when he is going to the bench, he may be stopped, — “Your Lordship cannot go yet: here is a bunch of invoices: several ships are about to sail.”’
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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His lordship then presented them to his lady wife; the archdeacon first, with archidiaconal honours, and then the precentor with diminished parade.
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Although English kings traditionally claimed an overall supremacy here, they had done little to transform that ill-defined overlordship into lasting military and administrative control.
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I will be bon camarado to your lordship, in peace or in peril, during the time we shall abide together, will not be altogether vilipended in these doubtful times, when, as they say, a man's head is safer in a steel cap than in a marble palace. ''
A Legend of Montrose
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His Lordship seems to be saying that settlement can be a bar.
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His Lordship rejected the first argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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It'll be mair for love o 'yer lordship than fricht at the sweirin', my lord.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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Their Lordships then considered the position under international law.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has already been noticed that his Lordship held the lucrative office of Teller of the Exchequer for sixty years.
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Hence the higher necessity of his life, and his right to that lordship and control.
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Countreyes, or of the priuiledges graunted by his Maiestie to our merchants, that he may by aduertisement treat with your Lordshippe thereupon: which we by reason of our great princely affayres can not so conueniently at all times doe with such expedition as the cause may require.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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When I asked her how his lordship was because he might have had a touch too much vino last night, she took considerable um.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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His lordship was much amused by this freshwater voyage; and viewed with delight the stupendous rocks of basaltes through which the
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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Your Lordships have now seen this Mustapha Khân imprisoned and sentenced to death by Colonel Hannay, without judge and without accuser, without any evidence, without the _fetwah_, or any sentence of the law.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
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Can his lordship manage to switch off the TV?
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And this towne which I call a citie, I haue named Granada, as well because it is somewhat like vnto it, as also in remembrance of your lordship.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682
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His Lordship concluded that the administrator was a necessary party to a derivative claim by a beneficiary.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are as cunning as sheitan, your lordship, but I made the man turn the pail upside down and shake it.
Behind the Bungalow
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“If Herr Hitler was prepared to make peace on the terms of the restoration of German colonies and the overlordship of Central Europe, that was one thing,” he soothed.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
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His Lordship could not conclude that the judge must have made it by necessary implication.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hereditary descent was accepted throughout the British Isles, but primogeniture was slower to win general acceptance, and all lordships remained vulnerable at the moment of transmission, not least royal and princely ones.
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Sure your lordship's habiliment desarves to be as immaculate as your lordship's character.
A Dialogue for the Year 2130
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Thus your Lordship seeth how I comfort myself; to the increase whereof I would fain please myself to believe that to be true which my Lord Treasurer writeth; which is, that it is more than a philosopher morally can disgest.
Bacon
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His brother Edward wanted to be king of Ireland and succeeded in 1316, repulsing the English sovereign lordship.
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His Lordship would therefore reject the judge's narrow construction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whereupon his lordship replied: 'Ay! ay! my cannie laddie! an' I was predestined to hang ye for't. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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We had thought, as we say in paragraph 3 of our skeleton argument, that it would aid clarity and certainty if your Lordships retained, in a sense, charge of the exact scope of the liberty to apply.
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There is nothing, in our submission, that your Lordship can direct appropriately today.
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While this bill was pending, and only vengeance was breathed by the majority, his lordship, to the astonishment of all, suddenly moved, what he termed his conciliatory proposition.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
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Nor was his Lordship persuaded that there was any real anomaly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your Lordship has well in mind the degree to which the arguments found favour and to which they did not.
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Love and lordship never like fellowship.
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I will personally write to him with a copy of the judgment and indicate what your Lordship has told me this morning.
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Your lordship has now heard the cause of my discomposure, and of my sudden desire to leave your hospitable castle.
The Tapestried Chamber
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His Lordship did not accept that argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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It is, if I may say so, more than a pleasure — it is an education, to valet and buttle your lordship.
Whose Body?
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What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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With his lordship, like another great commander, "Once to be in doubt, was once to be resolved:" it would never do to go to the wars on a ricketty prad.
Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers
