lordship
Example Sentences
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“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Mr Justice Nicklin started to ask what the best single piece of evidence for each article was, and Sherborne was forced to say: "We are asking your lordship to extrapolate."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
It is worth pointing out, furthermore, that his lordship had by that time severed all links with the 'blackshirts', having witnessed the true, ugly nature of that organization.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
