woolsack
Example Sentences
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She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
Baroness Hayman chairs debates from the traditional woolsack, offers advice on procedural matters and acts as an ambassador for the work of the House.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2011
At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm."
From Time Magazine Archive
Houses of Parliament.—What a throne is like.—The "woolsack."
From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline
