The wardenship has passed to yours truly jesse, thus I am the warden for our parish of Portland for the next year. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Would he have to abdicate his precentorship, as he had his wardenship, and to give up chanting, as he had given up his twelve old bedesmen? ❋ Unknown (2004)
The income arising from the wardenship of the hospital was eight hundred, besides the value of the house. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘It is with the greatest pain that I feel myself constrained to resign into your Lordship’s hands the wardenship of the hospital at Barchester, which you so kindly conferred upon me, now nearly twelve years since. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The bishop thought probably he had, thirty-five years ago, when first instituted to his see, but could not state positively: however, he very well knew that he had the absolute right to present to the wardenship, and that the income of the warden had been regularly settled. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Under pressure of these attacks, Mr. Harding had resigned his wardenship, though strongly recommended to abstain from doing so both by his friends and by his lawyers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
All the world — meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church — knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a snug sinecure, but no one had ever been blamed for accepting it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There would be not only no merit, but positive disgrace, in giving up his wardenship, if he were not prepared to meet the world without it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘It goes with the wardenship,’ said the son-in-law. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He, Mr. Quiverful, had not asked for the wardenship; he had not even accepted it till he had been assured that Mr. Harding had refused it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
You are aware that a question has arisen as to the right of the warden to the income which has been allotted to the wardenship; it has seemed to me that this right is not well made out, and I hesitate to incur the risk of taking an income to which my legal claim appears doubtful. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I will say nothing of your own comfort, but I do say that you could not be justified in throwing up, in a fit of passion, for such it would be, the only maintenance that Eleanor has; and if you did so, if you really did vacate the wardenship, and submit to ruin, what would that profit you? ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was known that Dr. Proudie would immediately have to reappoint to the wardenship of the hospital under the act of ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr. Harding had resigned his wardenship, and had done so unconditionally, he had done so under circumstances which left the bishop no choice as to his reappointment, now that the affair of the hospital had been settled on a new basis by act of Parliament. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was to be told in fact in the civilest words in which the tidings could be conveyed that Mr. Harding having refused the wardenship, the appointment had been offered to Mr. Quiverful and accepted by him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But I cannot preclude myself from the pleasure of sending you these few lines to say that Mr.Q. has today, in my presence, resigned any title that he ever had to the wardenship of the hospital, and that the bishop has assured me that it is his intention to offer it to your esteemed father. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘I think nothing should now be done till the wardenship be vacant.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
Held fast by Anskiere's wardenship, the creatures she sensed could not win through to freedom; but here, at the vortex of his powers, where she should have en-countered the Stormwarden's living presence, Taen found si'lence and frost and the impenetrable stillness of ages. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)
Then would the wardenship of the Vaere itself become threatened. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1988)
College authorities undertook its repair, during Sir Henry Savile's wardenship, in 1598. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
