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It holds out the hope, that a particularly noble woman may not be personally inferior to a remarkably bad husband, but "may look down with pitying and helpful love on him she calls her lord."
Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Creator, with all its responsibilities, its trials, its possible outward humiliations and sufferings, in the proud consciousness that it is not incompatible with an essential superiority; that it does not prevent her from occupying, if she will, an inward elevation of character, from which she may look down with pitying and helpful love on him she calls her lord.
Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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She resolved to go forward -- to save her husband -- but, raising her extended hands and parted fingers, as she came to this determination, and gnashing her teeth with vindictive resolution as she spoke, she declared her equal resolve to compensate herself for so great a charity, by sinking her ten claws into the cheeks of any copper coloured damsel whom she should discover at the Red Gulley in suspicious propinquity with that gay deceiver whom she called her lord.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series 1845
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When speaking about Peter and James, Paul doesn't mention very many background facts about them other than they have unnamed wives, and James has a brother that Paul calls the lord.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels James F. McGrath 2010
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By persons of the highest birth, by the king himself, he is called my lord.
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Ray was dressed to the hilt and looked like some kind of freakin English lord.
kaboom Diary Entry kaboom 2005
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For, indeed, no knight yet had the lady seen whom she would call her lord.
Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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And almost before she was aware Kriemhild had found the Prince whom she would gladly call her lord.
Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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They seemed to see all in a moment the hopelessness of their position as vassals of Navailles, and the folly of attempting resistance to one so infinitely more worthy to be called their lord.
In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894
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"Nonsense, Osgod, I want not to be called my lord."
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