2837 examples of lordship in sentences

Thou hast heard that heaven and earth are subject to my son because of his lordship over gods and men.

His Lordship has a liver that must be mended, but also he has a weakness for the gaming table.

In the vennel stood a tall dark bit of masonry called Gilmour's Lordship, which was pierced by long closes from which twisting stairways led to the upper landings.

In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind.

Then holding the spectacles up to the court Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle, As wide as the ridge of the nose is; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.

Again, would your lordship a moment suppose ('Tis a case that has happen'd, and may be again)

So his lordship decreed, with a grave, solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but That, whenever the Nose put his Spectacles on, By daylight or candlelightEyes should be shut!

We likewise adverted to his lordship's munificent patronage of the Fine Arts, and to the erection of the Gallery which forms the subject of the annexed Engraving.

Mr. Scott and Lord Byron are good-natured enough to admire Christabel, and the Public have not forgotten that his Lordship handed her Ladyship upon the stage.

" The Lord Chancellor dined there that day: Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy was introduced to him; his lordship was a little, rough-faced, beetle-browed, hard-featured man, who thought beauty and idleness the same thingand a parchment skin the legitimate complexion for a lawyer.

for you, my young friend;" and that they were not to be published till after his lordship's death.

Lord Byron concluded his reply by saying, that "she might depend on their being published;" and his lordship further says, "It was not till after this correspondence that I made Moore the depositary of the MS."

no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;no "my lord, I hope your lordship passed an agreeable nightand how is her ladyship and your lordship's amiable daughters?"not a bit of it"How's Mrs. S. and the gals?"

no obsequiousness, no deference, no respect;no "my lord, I hope your lordship passed an agreeable nightand how is her ladyship and your lordship's amiable daughters?"not a bit of it"How's Mrs. S. and the gals?"

""Cold!" says Hertford; "did you eat the ham cold?""O dear, yes, my lord, to be sure we didwe eat it just as your lordship's gentleman sent it.

When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his lordship said to him "Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it is your bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your appearance.

" "Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to that, I'm thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your lordship.

" "How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.

His Lordship has been for so many years in public life, and a marked man among English statesmen, that, either by engraving, photograph, or personal observation, his face is familiar to many Americans.

And now, if your lordship will sit down, I will hear what you have to say.

For silence after grievous thing's is good, And reverence, and the fear that makes men whole And shame, and righteous governance of blood, And Lordship of the Soul.

As he does not think like other men,' said his lordship, 'it is his opinion that he should not live like other men; I suppose he dined about two hours ago, and he is now shut up for the rest of the day: your only time to see him is in the morning, but then he walks so fast up those hills that unless you are mounted on one of my ablest hunters you will not keep pace with him.'

My lord Devonshire has more than ten thousand volumes in his house; I entreated his lordship to lodge me as far as possible from that pestilential corner: I have but one book, and that is Euclid, but I begin to be tired of him; I believe he has done more harm than good; he has set fools a reasoning.'

"All the gardens which had continued time out of mind without Moorgate: to wit, about and beyond the lordship of Fensberry (Finsbury) were destroyed: and of them was made plain field for archers to shoote in."

A writer in the Calcutta Review, incidentally alluding to the book, says that "it is said to have been written by a member of one of the councils over which Clive presided; but the writer, being obviously better acquainted with his lordship's personal doings in Europe than in Asia, the work savours strongly of home-manufacture, and has all the appearance of being the joint composition of a discarded valet and a bookseller's hack."

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