godship

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His godship was very discriminating in the goodness and freshness of these offerings; for he rejected such as were stale, to be returned next morning, with his maledictions, to the fraudulent donors.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Let me another truth attempt, Of which your godship has not dreamt: Those shining virtues which you muster, Whence think you they derive their lustre?

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell

And after Brahm� has spent his modest day everything is destroyed and his godship spends an equal period in sleep and rest.

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

Strikes the beholder’s eye with burnish’d gold: To godship here blue Triton’s scaly herd, The river progeny is there preferr’d: Through towns Diana’s power neglected lies, Where to her dogs aspiring temples rise!

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

It shall be our care, dear lady," I added, "to maintain this status of godship and to that end we must arrange a little program of simple miracles from time to time.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville