protectorship

Example Sentences

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But by the time of Annie Leibovitz’s protectorship her self-image had changed.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

San Martin was now the hero of Chile, and was begged to accept the protectorship of the new Republic.

From South America by Koebel, W. H. (William Henry)

How now, Numps! almost tired in your protectorship? overparted, overparted?”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Waller, the poet, who was bred at King's College, wrote a fine panegyric on Cromwell, when he assumed the protectorship.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

They supposed that he sought to make the protectorship hereditary in his family.

From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire