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Example sentences for "lordships"

Lexicographically close words:
lords; lordschip; lordship; lordshipe; lordshipp; lordshyp; lordys; lore; loreal; lores
  1. And, upon consideration had of the matter referred to their lordships concerning the state of the impeachments brought up from the House of Commons the last parliament, etc.

  2. The third commeth out of the yard of one of your lordships manors there called Radwinter hall.

  3. This said brooke runneth directlie from thence vnto Radwinter, now a parcell of your lordships possessions in those parts, descended from the Chamberleins, who were sometime chéefe owners of the same.

  4. Edwardi sexti at Gréenewich Aprilis 24, vnto the earle of Huntingdon, & the lord George Cobham your lordships honorable father, at such time as they were called vnto the aforesaid companie.

  5. Certes, all these, sauing the first and second, are within your lordships towne aforesaid.

  6. There are a few things I would wish to say relative to the evidence given against me at my trial, but I would ask your lordships to give me permission to say them after sentence.

  7. As a further measure of precaution a pilot engine steamed in advance of the train in which their lordships sat, one carriage of which was filled with armed police.

  8. Of their arguments and opinions your lordships have judicial knowledge.

  9. Your lordships are but the priests of the oracle, and I insist on the whole of the forms.

  10. Observing that the lights were being now renewed, and that their lordships appeared satisfied to sit out the night, he anxiously inquired if the proceedings were not to be adjourned till morning.

  11. If your Lordships will be so good as to suspend the Standing Orders, as has just been done in case of Naval Defence Amendment Bill, we could carry the measure through all the stages before your Lordships rise.

  12. In Ireland the palatine character of the great lordships made the title not uncommon (e.

  13. Sometimes it included ecclesiastical lordships of the first rank.

  14. Thus," they said, "your lordships have now the full scheme of all that is demanded by us in this treaty.

  15. The Indians say that the province of the Collao was very large, and in those days it contained a great number of people and of lordships among the natives, which were very powerful.

  16. There is no opposition; your lordships will please grant commission to take his oath.

  17. I understand him perfectly--he would insinuate that the facts now stated to your Lordships are inconsistent with the confession of Euphemia Deans herself.

  18. For this reason I shall lay before your lordships the objections which arose in my mind when the bill was first laid before us, and which have rather been strengthened than invalidated by the subsequent debate.

  19. This is the unfeign'd Prayer of, My Lord, Your Lordships most Humble And most Obedient Servant A.

  20. Your Lordships will pardon me if I plunge at once into my mission without introduction, as the matter with which I am charged is urgent.

  21. Their Lordships desire to know how matters stand within the fortress.

  22. I count much on your uncle, and I think their high and mighty Lordships may wish they had encountered some one else before they are done with him.

  23. I should try the range when their august Lordships are there to bear witness to the accuracy of your aim.

  24. Enough to make their Lordships regret that my followers are thrown in the scale against them.

  25. Their High and Mighty Lordships of Cologne and Treves are, as I have said, allies in this quarrel, and they demand your instant answer.

  26. If their Lordships had invoked the aid of such, then was Thuron indeed doomed.

  27. To which his lordship replied,—that he could admit nothing as written or published by him, till every word of it should be first truly read to their lordships aloud in the House.

  28. I am satisfied that your lordships have stated the case as it stands, but I am not satisfied that I have been convicted under any law.

  29. Mr. Price thought proper to suppress that letter, and I ask that he be compelled to produce it, so that, if your lordships think fit, it may be read in court.

  30. It is my manner, your lordships will admit, and you have instructed the jury not to find me guilty, but to discharge me from the dock, if they were not positive that I was a Fenian on the 5th March.

  31. I have nothing to say further than to thank your lordships for the latitude you have given me in these few remarks, and also to thank your lordships for your kindness during my trial.

  32. Your lordships say that the law of the land rules that I had no right to do anything of the kind.

  33. He thus continued:-- Your lordships are well aware that there are many contradictions in the informers' testimony, and now here is a matter which I am going to mention for the first time.

  34. With regard to the unfortunate man who has lost his life, I sympathize with him and his family as deeply as your lordships or the jury, or anyone in the court.

  35. Others have an overwhelming alibi, and I should by right have been tried with them; but I suppose your lordships cannot help that.

  36. In a conference on this subject between the two houses, the Commons denied their lordships to possess an exclusive jurisdiction, but did not press that matter.

  37. But all this time he rose in personal importance, acquired fresh lordships in the Bergamasque, and accumulated wealth.

  38. The lordships of Romano in the Bergamasque and of Covo and Antegnate in the Cremonese had been assigned to him; and he was in a position to make independent engagements with princes.

  39. The wealth they derived from their lordships in the duchy of Spoleto and the Umbrian hill-cities, and the treasures they accumulated in the service of the Italian republics, made them omnipotent in their native town.

  40. His principal lordships in the Bergamasque territory owed to his munificence their fairest churches and charitable institutions.

  41. Urban at this juncture pressed Francesco Maria hard; and in 1624 the last Duke of Urbino devolved his lordships to the Holy See.

  42. Here Colleoni remained a prisoner more than a year, until the Duke's death in 1447, when he made his escape, and profited by the disturbance of the Duchy to reacquire his lordships in the Bergamasque territory.

  43. Sincerely thanking your lordships for the ready support you have so frequently afforded me in the performance of my arduous duties, "I have, &c.

  44. It cannot be necessary to assure your Lordships of the deep gratification with which I have received so handsome and elaborate a recognition of my services.

  45. There is, however, one part of the minute which I trust their lordships may be induced to reconsider.

  46. Their lordships would confirm him in expressing the general regret which would be felt by the public at his retirement, and the universal acknowledgment of the value of his services would, no doubt, be a great satisfaction to Sir R.

  47. It would he unfit for me to offer anything to your lordships which I had not well considered; and this subject, I own, has not long occupied my thoughts.

  48. I will now give them to your lordships without reserve.

  49. An honour in law is a lordship, on which inferior lordships and manors depend by performance of customs and services.

  50. But no lordships were honours but such as belonged to the King.

  51. Well, he has laid in a good stock of fuel," said the Chamberlain, as if carelessly; and their Lordships turned and remounted the stairs.

  52. He would therefore ask their Lordships to accept the clause drafted as follows: "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and if the equal sides of the triangle are produced, the exterior angles will also be equal.

  53. The Leader of the Government in presenting the clause urged upon their Lordships the need of conciliation.

  54. Contingencies might arise to render such a course necessary, but in that case their Lordships would receive an early intimation of the fact.

  55. He hoped, however, that their Lordships would find time to think out some further amendments for the evening sitting.

  56. They had accepted all the amendments of their Lordships on the opposite side in regard to the original provisions of the Bill.

  57. The Bill, he said, had now been before their Lordships for sixteen years.

  58. For the which cause I haue enterprised (hoping greatly of your lordships fauour herein) to clothe and set forth a few Italian newes in our English attire, being first mooued thereunto by the right worshipfull M.

  59. Their lordships would seem to have all got out of bed on the wrong side on the morning of the assembly, for their surliness and ill-temper were utterly unparalleled.

  60. When the bill went up to the peers, their lordships were not at all in a hurry to despatch it, and the Commons kept sending up messages to know "How about that little Bill?

  61. That this is true, Here's his own hand to witness it against him: Please it your lordships to peruse the writing.

  62. They say my old father must marry your sister Honour, and that he will disinherit me, and entail all his lordships on her and the heir he shall beget on her body.

  63. I do beseech your lordships not to credit What this base fellow speaks.

  64. After handing the note to the judges which contained the challenge, he said that he left him to their lordships to answer for his conduct.

  65. He did so on the 25th of February, by moving that their lordships should resolve themselves into a committee of the whole house on the state of the nation.

  66. The Marquis of Londonderry also opposed the bill; while the Duke of Wellington recommended their lordships to give it a second reading, with a view of amending it in committee.

  67. Before proceeding with the tariff, however, their lordships went into committee on the corn-importation bill.

  68. Lord Eldon concluded his speech by warning their lordships of the danger of conceding the terms required; and by declaring that if the measure passed, there would be an end to the monarchy.

  69. The time was passed for taking half-measures; their lordships must either adopt this bill, or they would have in its stead something infinitely stronger and more extensive.

  70. On this their lordships adjourned again, and after long consultation, the objections made on the part of the defendant were held to be valid.

  71. After this Hastings addressed the court, praying that their lordships would order the trial to continue to its final conclusion, but all further proceedings were adjourned till the next session.


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