11 examples of eldership in sentences

But these widowsThen such a love in us all, both old and young, of being courted and admired!and so irresistible to their elderships to be flattered, that all power is not over with them; but that they may still class and prank it with their daughters.

maturity; decline, decay; senility &c 128. seniority, eldership, primogeniture.

seniority, eldership; elders &c (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.

They divided the kingdom into provinces, the provinces into classes, and the classes into presbyteries or elderships; and established by successive votes a regular gradation of authority among these new judicatories, which amounted, if we may believe the ordinance, to no fewer than ten thousand.

This was a duty of the eldership, and it could be thoroughly performed without fear, respecting a man of Mr. F.'s character.

But thou, false Arcite, never shall obtain Thy bad pretence; I told thee first my pain; For first my love began ere thine was born: Thou as my council, and my brother sworn, Art bound to assist my eldership of right, Or justly to be deem'd a perjured knight.

My claim to her by eldership I prove.

I returned to the buggy and asked my wife how she liked the Presiding Eldership.

He was stationed at Green Bay in 1835, Brother Clark having been assigned to the Presiding Eldership.

This being the second year of my Presiding Eldership, the Disciplinary limit required several removals, but I need not give them in detail, as they can be ascertained, if desirable, by consulting the Minutes.

The story is told of a man who had got himself installed in the eldership, and, in consequence, had for some time carried round the ladle for the collections.

11 examples of  eldership  in sentences