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  • In deciding in favour of the health authority one of the Law Lords,

    Children's Rights Archard, David William 2006

  • In 1844, speaking of the Sind campaign in the House of Lords, he said: 'My Lords,

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Edestone fell back and bowed respectfully in acknowledgment of the pleasant glances which were thrown in his direction, as the Lords,

    L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

  • A week later, on the day on which the Prince of Wales took his seat in the Lords,

    Mr. Punch's History of the Great War 1900

  • A _monger_ is a _dealer_, as ironmonger, cheesemonger, and the like: and as the Lords, Baronets, and Esquires sometimes sell and sometimes buy seats, and as the seats are said to be filled by the people in certain Boroughs, these Lords,

    Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

  • House this present day, and the Upper House had been sitting, he meant to have fired the match and have fled for his own safety before the powder had taken fire, and confesseth that, if he had not been apprehended this last night, he had blown up the Upper House when the King, Lords,

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • People who wore ruffles round their hands, and rode in their own coaches, and never performed any manual labor might be said to constitute in Oldtown our House of Lords,

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • The Self-denying Ordinance was then re-introduced in a changed form, and it passed the Lords,

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • On the 20th of January, the first day of the re-assembling of the Lords,

    The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842

  • But we can arrange that; for if Darrell will but join the government, and go -- to the Lords,

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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