How to use Earldom in Sentences?
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1. But it would seem that the business of the ancient Earldom was transacted here.
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2. In return for this, Malcolm received a confirmation of the earldom of Huntingdon (cf.
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3. What is your earldom of Norwich, Ralph, but sea-washed dunes or waste corn lands?
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4. Did not William see thee fight at Hastings, and give thee thine earldom for thy prowess?
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5. Here stands an English Earl, who will defend his earldom and the lands of his King.
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6. Edward II. had advanced him to the Earldom of Cornwall, and the barons were jealous of him.
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7. Oh would I were: this second whisk divides Thy Earldom from thee, thou art yet a Baron.
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8. At any rate we find the patronage of the benefice attached to the Earldom at the beginning of the thirteenth century.
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9. For this and similar acts of virtue he was raised to an earldom in 1833; he retired from diplomacy in 1841, and died in 1846.
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10. There were never any estates; the title lapsed; the present earldom is a new creation, not in the same family at all.
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11. I will pay you all costs in case you succeed in proving me the legal heir to the Earldom of Huntingdon.
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12. The Earls of Cornwall to all intents and purposes within the bounds of the earldom were reigning princes.
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13. James rewarded him with the Earldom of Devonshire, but as all his children were illegitimate, the titles died with him.
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14. An earldom and the governorship of Louisiana, it was said, had been promised him as his reward for the American expedition.
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15. It appears, indeed, that as late as the sixteenth century, the issue of a hand-fast marriage claimed the earldom of Sutherland.
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16. In this way the earldom of Huntingdon became attached to the Scottish throne, and afforded an occasion for reviving the old question of homage.
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17. The unique position of the Earldom of Strathearn and the hereditary Stewardships which had grown up alongside of it attracted his attention.
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18. Svein Hakonson, he that was the finest man that men have ever looked on, received earldom from Olaf the Swede.
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19. She had been horribly afraid, humiliatingly afraid for a few days, that he might change his mind if not his heart, when the earldom fell into his hands like a prize-package.
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20. In prosecution of his purpose, Mar now obtained a grant under the Privy Seal of the earldom of Murray.
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