Sentence example with the word 'woolsack'

woolsack

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In July 1861 he accepted from Lord Palmerston the office of solicitor-general, a knighthood, and a safe seat for the borough of Richmond in Yorkshire, secured for him through the friendly action of Lord Zetland, and thus began the second spell of Palmer's membership of the House of Commons, which continued till his elevation to the woolsack and the peerage.   [Please select]

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He then resumed his seat on the woolsack, and communicated to the assembled peers the nature of the message.   [Please select]

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Faithful to his orders, however, the judge sat upon the woolsack Saturdays, unless it was raining or he wished to shoot _kuku_.   [Please select]

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Egad, Davy, you need only a woolsack to become a full-fledged judge.   [Please select]

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"I perceive," interrupted Colman, "your lordship has still an eye to the woolsack."   [Please select]

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"'Tis not a chair of coronation or the woolsack of a judge."'   [Please select]

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Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre.   [Please select]

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