seigniorship

Jacques Butcher says to his lambs — those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads. —

Quentin Durward 2008

Be as churlish as you list -- I never quarrel with my customers -- my jerry come tumbles, my merry dancers, my little playfellows, as Jacques Butcher says to his lambs -- those in fine, who, like your seigniorship, have H.E. M.P. written on their foreheads.

Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801

Grand Seignior, who, on our first introduction, is Judge Morris; we salute, which we do by applying the palm of our right hand to the lips, then turning the hand to his seigniorship and bringing our left hand across the breast, which salutation being returned by the Grand Seignior, who sits upon a raised platform and wields a gavel, we take seats wherever our sense of cleanliness will permit, and where we hope there may be no traveling minute messengers conveying ideas from one man's head to another.

The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer