Eksempler på lordly

• Even where lordly interference was minimal and rents and fines were low, moreover, ' engrossment and social polarisation were rife ' (p. 309).

• I know it for truth, that in a nobleman it is a lordly habit that he securely bind his mind-stronghold, guard his treasure chamber, think what he will.

• Certain lineages may have been prohibited from venerating ancestors in this sacred city or on lordly pyramids in the hinterland.

• I would have sent him a lordly number.

• We must get out of the lordly attitude of the past.

• She had insulted a lordly dish by classifying it as flour confectionery.

• Employees in nationalised industries have been spared redundancy because they have been cushioned with huge pensions of lordly sums.

• Appealing to these arguments may be to the defenders of the free market, the lordly rebels are being intransigent in their principled resistance.

• We are really bringing him butter on a lordly dish, and, unfortunately for him, he is compelled to resist the offer.

• Their most generous and constant invocation of my lordly status, however, has tended to give me a rather exaggerated sense of my own importance.

• Unremunerative development will be financed out of this lordly loan, and the revenue will not be coming in from these particular undertakings.

• That is not the intrusion of our lordly noses into anything.

• There is not now that worship of the lordly individual that there used to be.

• First, he said in a rather lordly fashion that the court took a different view of his legislation.

• Is that surprising, considering the fate of the gentleman who was offered the lordly dish?