woolsack
Example Sentences
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The Lord Speaker chairs daily business in the chamber from his seat on the woolsack and, like the House of Commons Speaker, is expected to be politically impartial.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
A Royal Commission, made up of five peers appointed by the King, take their places on the woolsack dressed in red ermine robes and black and two-pointed, bicorner hats.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why else, again, has it been permitted from commanders of the stamp of Picton in the field, and from lawyers of the pattern of Thurlow on the woolsack?
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
