lieutenancies
- plural of lieutenancy.
Example Sentences
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It will shock men in future days that great peers or rich commoners should have bargained for ribbons and lieutenancies and titles.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
Do but observe the common practice in the government of those heroic bodies, our militia and lieutenancies, the most ancient corps of soldiers, perhaps, in the universe.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
What! shall I esteem as proconsuls, as governors, those who for that end only deem themselves invested with lieutenancies or great senatorial appointments, that they may gorge themselves with the provincial luxuries and wealth?
From The Caesars by De Quincey, Thomas
For gallantry on the field of action Sergeants Dame, Ferguson, Tiffany, Greenwald, and, later on, McIlhenny, were promoted to second lieutenancies, as Sergeant Hayes had already been.
From The Rough Riders by Roosevelt, Theodore
The professor relied upon the school-children for chorus material, and upon the Madigans to fill those lieutenancies without which the spectacular features of his production must be a failure—this last as a matter of course.
From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson
