Irish lord
Americannoun
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Not even at the time of the honeymoon had the Irish lord been a more irresistibly agreeable man than he was on that memorable morning.
From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie
Hannah explained that the Brownes were expected that afternoon, and that an Irish lord was coming with them, and that half Ridgeville had gone to the station to meet them.
From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Holmes, Mary Jane
But an Irish lord can represent an English constituency.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
What the Irish lord deputy was to the Tudors and Stuarts, the Irish agent now is to the great absentee proprietor residing in London or Paris.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
She regretted his absence—wondered whether he would have proposed throwing her letter to the Irish lord into the fire—sighed, closed the envelope, and sent the letter to the post.
From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie
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