“My master, the great Scholar Li K'ai-men heard these words from his lord and master, His Majesty, the Emperor Kao.”

“The noble lord had gone to bed drunk, woken up an hour later, still drunk, and had convinced himself that it was breakfast time.”

“From relatively humble beginnings, John Gostwick appointed himself lord of the manor at Willington.”

“There were 276 burgesses in 1086 under the direct lordship of the king, and about 450 households in all within the borough's boundaries.”

“In the first place, kings were lords, and exploited the common powers of lordship as well as their own peculiar royal rights.”

“His lordship was careful to supply a sheath for each blade, lest anyone suspect he was inciting their use.”

“Glancing at himself, it suddenly dawned on the swordsman that he looked like a lordling.”

“I fancied that they traveled in a long train behind their blue-blooded lordling.”

“Had he been a lordling, or some little viscomte, his forced residence in Paraguay would have been of shorter duration.”

“Gallic lordliness on all matters great and small isn't really sustained by the historical record.”

“It is the town of lordliness, absolute harmony and alternations.”

“It's the lordliness, the condescension, the sublime certainty that the Lib Dems are going to be in government, whatever happens.”

“But how should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed?”

“The king's younger brother eagerly awaited his lordhood, dreaming of the day he would be granted the title and all the responsibilities that came with it.”

“At the same time Wales was divided into counties or shires, some of which were based on and named after the ancient lordships.”

“Thereafter Wales was divided between the Principality, royal lands, and virtually independent marcher lordships.”

“Upon the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241 his two granddaughters became heiresses to his lands and lordships in England, the Welsh Marches, and Ireland.”