Example Sentences

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And now, Your Excellencies and Eminences, a brief refresher course in forms of address:

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2014

Once the Excellencies introduced the Countess to a deferential man who had "the face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose."

From Time Magazine Archive

But, for the Countess, the deathbed atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies."

From Time Magazine Archive

A letter about foreign policy from President John Adams to "Their Excellencies Benjamin Franklin Esqr and Thomas Jefferson Esqr" brought $1,600, and an A.L.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now will Excellencies look for Giorgio," muttered Ercole, without changing his position.

From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore