under-secretaryship

I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.

Phineas Finn 2004

You should get an under-secretaryship in the next government. '

The Explorer 1919

At present she was having supper with a nasty-looking man, with long hair and an eyeglass, who was reputed to be a rising politician, in the running for an under-secretaryship, and was also reputed to be in love with Molly.

No Man's Land 1912

From that moment both the Attorney General and the Prime Minister marked him out for distinction; he rose without any intermediary step of an under-secretaryship from a back-bencher to a Cabinet

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

The secretary has promised him an under-secretaryship in one of the

The Music Master Novelized from the Play Charles Klein 1891

He was to resign his under-secretaryship; but with the new session and a certain rearrangement of offices it was probable that he would be brought back into the Ministry.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

She was led by them to think of the many workmen friends she had made during the year of her nursing life; while he had remembrances of much personal work and investigation of his own, undertaken during the time of his under-secretaryship, to add to hers.

Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885

I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869

I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.

Phineas Finn 1867

I should have thought it as good as a promise of an under-secretaryship.

Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848