Example Sentences

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Cæsar wishes me to accept a legateship under him.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.

Women, the Holy Father Has ta'en the legateship from our cousin Pole— Was that well done? and poor Pole pines of it, As I do, to the death.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron