Ladyship

And as to getting other people's legs to go up for me, it's neither here nor there – it can't be – except when your Ladyship is in it, or one of the dear childer – which are not coming that I can see – and in the meanwhile I am fretting to an atomy for my liberty.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

"O, by no means," answered he, "your Ladyship is merely delicate, – and devil take me if ever I had the least passion for an Amazon."

Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

Her Ladyship was a person only of secondary consideration in their minds just then — they were intent upon the reception which the reigning brother and sister would afford them.

Vanity Fair 2006

Her Ladyship has been the better for this discipline.

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

'I had no idea your Ladyship was a member of the Movement party,' he added, with

Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Her Ladyship was a person only of secondary consideration in their minds just then -- they were intent upon the reception which the reigning brother and sister would afford them.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

We hope we have not been understood as meaning to insinuate, that because her Ladyship is the mother of a couple of dozen of volumes, she is on that account a _précieuse ridicule_.

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

_ Ay, ay, your Ladyship is a Lady of profound Knowledge.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

Her Ladyship was the relict of the late Earl Stanhope, and the mother of the present Earl.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

Mrs. Barry's accounts; copied my own interminable correspondence with my lawyers and the agents of all my various property; took a hand at piquet or backgammon of evenings with me and my mother; or, being an ingenious lad enough (though of a mean boorish spirit, as became the son of such a father), accompanied my Lady Lyndon's spinet with his flageolet; or read French and Italian with her: in both of which languages her Ladyship was a fine scholar, and with which he also became conversant.

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837