woolsack
Example Sentences
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At the end of her final day on the woolsack on Wednesday there was a break with usual Lords etiquette as she was cheered and clapped as business for the day ended.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2011
She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm."
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1705 he was appointed lord keeper of the great seal, and took his seat on the woolsack without a peerage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
