lordship
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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
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
"Given the nature of the convictions, the accused accepts your lordship must impose a significant sentence of imprisonment."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2017
Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
Naturally, his lordship was greatly distressed and immediately made plans to dispatch funds and commiserations to Frau Bremann.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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