Doubtless, the proposed arrangement was a snug one; especially the sinecurefor the doctor; but I by no means relished the functions allotted to myself--they were too indefinite.
Beginning his political life under Walpole, by whom he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury, he secured for himself the lucrative sinecure of the Clerkship of the Pells in Ireland.
The writer of this book deduces his insignificant being from a gentleman who divided with a brother the lucrative sinecure of Scavenger of Dublin, though neither ever set foot in that fragrant city.
It was, as Mr. Morley says, the number of sinecure places and unpublished pensions which "furnished the Minister with an irresistible lever.
Sinecure Government places made his circumstances more than easy, but he suffered continually from gout, the effect of free living, and he became blind, or nearly so, in his latter years.
The appeal, after some delay, brought Dryden an addition to his pension and a sinecure office in the Customs.
By neither is the idea for a moment tolerated, of maintaining burthensome sinecure offices, to enrich unfruitful individuals.
No, he concluded, the money had been devoted to the support of sinecure posts to be held by minor politicians and in other ways to pervert the honesty of Parliament.
Lord Camden succeeded Lord Northington as Lord Chancellor, and the latter was solaced with the office of President of the Council, and the reversion for two lives of a lucrative sinecure situation.
Mr. Wollaston was the thirty-seventh and last of the sinecure rectors of Dereham, and the exceptional custom of tolling the muffled bell, which had long been held in this parish when any of its rectors or vicars died, was observed.
Owing to the want of the church, which has been destroyed upwards of 200 years by the encroachments of the ocean, this is a sinecure benefice, and the inhabitants use the neighbouring church of Hempstead.
The chancel of East Dereham church was re-opened, after "additional embellishment, through the liberality of the sinecure rector, the Rev.
While the contest was raging, the Clerkship of the Pells, a sinecure place for life, worth three thousand a year, and tenable with a seat in the House of Commons, became vacant.
Yet Tyrrel was beheaded for another offence in defiance of Henry's plighted word, and Dighton was rewarded with a residence at Calais and, as will be seen presently, a sinecure in Lincolnshire.
He had to reside at Calais on the proceeds of his sinecure in Lincolnshire, and to be useful as a false witness.
Tomline's decision, that Pitt could never accept a sinecure from Addington, is indisputable.
The measure received warm support from Canning, who a month earlier had resigned the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs, and was now for the time merely on the India Board of Control, with a sinecure superadded.
A Cabinet Minister made him a present of South Sea stock; Walpole appointed him a Commissioner of Lotteries; he was granted an apartment in Whitehall; Queen Caroline offered him a sinecure post in her Household.
He had praised members of the Royal Family in verse; was there somewhere--somehow--a sinecure in the Household for him?
They are the lesser executives who work themselves out by the time they are fifty and find some sinecure or safe position near the top of the social pyramid.
Unearned income is something for nothing--an income derived from some monopoly, privilege, sinecure or form of property ownership.
A sinecure as 'clerk of the Foreign Estreats,' gave him 329l.
Mr. Greville held the sinecure office of Secretary of the Island of Jamaica, which was threatened at this time by a Committee of the House of Commons.
In the morning I went to Graham to ask him to advocate my cause in the Sinecure Committee and defend my interests there.
Quantities of valuable sinecure offices were habitually given to Englishmen who never came near the shores of Ireland.
The huge unsettled Clergy Reserves and Crown Lands were the worst concrete abuse, and matters had just then been aggravated by the sudden establishment of scores of sinecure rectories.
Gossett, who wrote to Magan for information as regards the sinecure he held, might have been glad of the dates which are now supplied.
Pollock in his new sinecure did not cease to gratify the instincts which made him so efficient in 1798.
He often reports him to Cooke: 'Counsellor McNally told me this night at Parisoll's, that Government had offered a sinecure employment, which he rejected.
This was a great event for Stanislaus, the sinecure Country-gentleman, in his French-German rustication.
You must prepare yourself for a querulous invalid, and for no sinecure if you get the billet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinecure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
