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"Lordship" in a Sentence (17 examples)
If it would please your lordship, I have brought with me some of the loveliest treasures from around the world.
His Lordship hasn't got up yet. I suggest you try later.
His Lordship isn't up yet. I suggest you try later.
The lordship tries to control peoples with ideologies.
He's just an infernal dude, your lordship, and I'll throw him in the river if he says a word too much.
On getting to the grand house and telling the flunkey he had come to see his master, the flunkey regarded him with disdain, and replied his lordship was engaged and would not see him.
His Lordship sipped tea from a porcelain cup.
His Lordship admired the vastness of his estate.
His Lordship’s estate stretched as far as the eye could see.
For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service[…]
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Lordship entails both privilege and responsibility. Lords have power over their subjects, but that power is granted them so that they can protect and provide for others.
May I ask that the order be granted, if your lordship so pleases?
'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship's heart.'
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.
[…]for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.
But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
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