Lords

Examples

• The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No, say my lords the mob, you sha'n't have that. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• After which it embarked upon a long-impending struggle with the persistently imperialist House of Lords. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And in London another Lord Greystoke was speaking to HIS kind in the House of Lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You shall show money with lords for wagers, and beat 'em! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• There was always much more union among the clergy than among the lay-lords. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That's more than any of your Lords will give, I'LL warrant, he said and refused to attend at the ceremony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth! Jane Austen. Emma.
• He exclaims, O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the future reckon with this man? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Lords are going too far, though. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Each man asked his neighbour for news; and even great English lords and ladies condescended to speak to persons whom they did not know. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A surprising spirit in this lonely woman after so many years of hard working, and hard living, my Lords and Gentlemen and Honourable Boards! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mutual interest, therefore, disposed them to support the king, and the king to support them against the lords. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My Lords and Gentlemen and Honourable Boards, it really was as composed as our own faces, and almost as dignified. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Amy's admirer, Boultby, was one of our first visitors, and then Lords Hertford and Lowther, who were both on a visit at the pavilion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Here the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• God 'a mercy, the cruel Leonardo lords it in the castle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I shall travel by daylight, stop at the best hotels, go to the dinner-tables with the lords of the land. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Lords' hests must be listened to with a quick ear. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Lords Hertford and Alvanly, the Hon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Not home, but to the House of Lords, Ponsonby replied. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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