Viceregal

Her account mainly covers what she calls the viceregal period, also known as the colonial era, which lasted from 1521 to 1821. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

The commander in chief in North America no longer had viceregal authority, and the governors took orders only from London. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

There, at the place they call La Villa, the sacred image hangs on permanent display in a large and modern basilica built in the early 1970s—the original viceregal basilica having sunk unevenly over the centuries into the soft former lake bed below. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

His viceregal powers did not impress the Americans, who might accept persuasion but would not put up with flat orders to governors and legislatures.13 ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

In the viceregal period, Indians were not allowed inside the park. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

Since the country's founding the Punjabi elite have ruled the other provinces as if they were colonies, underlining the crux of the problem, which is Pakistan's inheritance of Britain's "viceregal tradition," which for Balochistan has translated into a permanent state of martial law. ❋ Michael Hughes (2011)