woolsack

Example Sentences

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The Lord Speaker chairs daily business in the chamber from his seat on the woolsack and, like the House of Commons Speaker, is expected to be politically impartial.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, speaker of the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel as if I was Lord Chancellor in my robes—on the woolsack.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various