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Example sentences for "lords"

Lexicographically close words:
lordlier; lordliest; lordling; lordlings; lordly; lordschip; lordship; lordshipe; lordshipp; lordships
  1. What if this new god-teaching were false, and if Cathal was right, and the old gods were the lords of life and death?

  2. O my fellow-prisoners, are sundry lords better, or the only true and mighty GOD?

  3. The patriotic seamen of the Virginia navy were no exceptions to the rule when they fell into the hands of the more powerful lords of the ocean.

  4. Several motions were grounded on these petitions, but to those proposed by the Lords and gentlemen in the opposition, were determined in the negative, and others to exculpate the Government in this business were resolved in the affirmative.

  5. Noble Lords made free use of their liberty.

  6. And I have been asked by their lords to the baptisms and marriages of such; at which they, whose slaves they were before, made no less solemnity than if they had been their children or relations.

  7. Have there not been in Spain other princes and lords as covetous perchance of this honour as the Infant?

  8. The wives kneel as they offer the cup to their lords, and stand with their hands crossed while their lords are drinking, then kneel down again to receive the cup, and to kiss their lords' hand.

  9. He was so much struck by his dream that he sent two of his great lords to look for the true religion in the West.

  10. The great lords require their servants to show them the same respect.

  11. There are some Jews there; but the Turks are the lords over the land.

  12. The king makes any one a lord whom he pleases, yet he treats even his lords very rudely.

  13. Once he made forty of his lords lie upon their faces for several hours, beneath the broiling sun, with a great beam over them to keep them still.

  14. The great Roman lords of the present day, are as unacquainted with the pompous luxury of their ancestors, as these ancestors themselves were with the austere virtues of the Roman republic.

  15. This was not the effect of impoliteness or of egotism; but the idea which the great Roman lords entertain of honour and duty, is not to stir one step, nor be absent one moment from their ladies.

  16. All that we gain by the sword we are masters and lords of.

  17. The counts of Hohenlohe were made to enter their ranks, and were told, "Brother Albert and brother George, you are no longer lords but peasants, and we are the lords of Hohenlohe.

  18. When the appointed day came both sides assembled with their vassals, the lords full of hope, the bishop exhorting his followers to humble the arrogance of these plundering nobles.

  19. In the end, to his unutterable chagrin, he was forced to raise the siege and march away, leaving the valiant burghers lords of their homes.

  20. While King William was striving to get out of the city, which he had got into with such ease, the fight in the green meadows between the bishops and the lords had been concluded, the warlike churchman coming off victor.

  21. Letters from the lords of Thurn came after those named, followed by a batch from the nobles of Schaffhausen.

  22. The lords of the sea know no masters on land.

  23. Ande for every of my Yonge Maisters my Lords Yonger Sonnes after jd.

  24. The inner envelope contained a short note conveying the thanks of the Lords of the Admiralty to me, the inventor.

  25. This was not done without a hard fight, for the earl and his men defended themselves stoutly; but at length he was bound and placed upon an old horse and carried before Havelok, who was waiting in the castle with his lords about him.

  26. They sang and danced as long as the horn kept on blowing, and when it had ceased the ruler of Babylon called to his lords and bade them follow him into the garden, as of a surety some great enchanter must have strayed therein.

  27. And when the lords had sworn, Ubbe summoned the people, and told them, what many had known before, that the earl had betrayed his trust, and that now he should pay forfeit of his wickedness.

  28. Then silently he led them before Charles, and caused them to sit down at his own table, and bade the lords of the court drink out of the magic cup after Huon and Esclaramonde and Gerames had drunk out of it.

  29. Gertrude is described as the 'imperial jointress' of the State, and the King says that the lords consented to the marriage, but makes no separate mention of his election.

  30. Is it not likely, besides, that the expression on the faces of the lords would force her to realise, what before the murder she had refused to consider, the horror and the suspicion it must excite?

  31. He alone of the lords knew of the prophecies, but he has said nothing of them.

  32. The following day, the Earl of Devonshire and a large assemblage of other lords and gentlemen went down to the Tower Wharf to receive the Spanish Ambassador, who came to arrange the terms of the Queen's marriage.

  33. He by some means became acquainted with Lords Arundel and Lumley, to whom he offered the loan of a sum of money.

  34. Fifteen Lords of the Council, nine judges, and other officers had signed a paper, agreeing to maintain the succession contained in the King's notes delivered to the judges.

  35. When meeting the two lords I have mentioned on the business of the loan, he managed to win them over to support the plot he had arranged.

  36. I may also refer the reader to my book on "The House of Lords and the Constitution," and particularly to the Lord Chancellor's preface to the same.

  37. The Lords Justices governed the country for its English masters by influence and corruption, and the Irish pension list provided grants too degrading to be charged on English revenues.

  38. The Senate is placed under the same disabilities as to money bills as are imposed on the House of Lords by the Parliament Act.

  39. In May, 1845, Lord Devon declared in the House of Lords that if a Bill were passed giving tenants compensation for improvements made by them in the land "it would much strengthen the industry of the people of Ireland.

  40. The Lords dashed new Acts proposed against treason and the trial of accessories--statutes namely, said Perrott, for the safety of the Queen.

  41. To obtain for our country the right and privilege of managing our own affairs by a Parliament assembled in Ireland, composed of Her Majesty, the Sovereign, and her successors, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland.

  42. The Bill was finally read a second time in the Lords and then dropped for the session.

  43. If I were an Irishman I think I should prefer the House of Lords to the Judicial Committee.

  44. I wish to point out that, according to the opinion of all the judges who were called in to advise the House of Lords in the case of Miller v.

  45. The Lords complained, as they have often complained since, that Bills were sent up to them at a period of the session too late to admit of the exercise of the Lords' rights of revision and amendment.

  46. Upon its broad pavements flaunted, in all their bravery, city lords and city ladies.

  47. That was Alianora de Montfort, daughter of Earl Simon of Leicester, that bold baron that headed the lords against the King; and her mother was the King's own sister, the Lady Alianora.

  48. Saint Peter told bishops that they were not to be lords over God's heritage, but to be ensamples to the flock; but when Bishop Grosteste lived, most bishops were very great lords, and very poor examples.

  49. Here he stands before forty-two judges (compare the number of the nomes of Egypt) styled Lords of Truth, each of whom is there to judge of a particular sin, and to each he has to profess that he did not when on earth commit that sin.

  50. When we first see them, they are not, like the gods of the western Semites, lords and masters, characters taken from human families; they are not husbands and fathers but creators and universal powers.

  51. Edinburgh, with its lords and its ladies, its delights and its hopes, spoiled him for farming.


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