woolsack
Example Sentences
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She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
Baroness Hayman chairs debates in the Upper Chamber from the traditional woolsack, offers advice on procedural matters and acts as ambassador for the work of the House.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2011
At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
The British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths.
From Time Magazine Archive
His domineering airs had in the intervening time coerced to his own way of thinking a host of weathercock viceroys, had raised him to the woolsack, rendered him supreme in the law courts.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
