prime ministress

Example Sentences

• "Mrs. Drilling may, in fact, be pronounced the Première or Prime Ministress of my Majesty’s Council of Advisers."
• "Then shall we hear of the beautiful Mrs. Camac reigning as Queen of Hastings, and mixing daily with her lieges upon the Steyne, seated in an open carriage, drawn by six white horses, and followed by four outriders. Then shall we find my Lord of Lorn (afterwards Duke of Argyle), Lord Petersham, Colonel Carpenter, Messrs. Streffington, Brummel, and Reynolds, installed respectively as Grand Viziers of the Sultan Fashion; and Lady Charlotte Campbell (afterwards Lady C. Bury, the authoress), the Duchesses of Devonshire and Gordon, Lady Sarah Fane, and Lady Jersey (not the Prince Regent’s Lady Jersey), in possession of the seals of office as his prime ministresses, each with a powerful cabinet of her own."
• "If they gave the right of voting they could not withhold the right of being voted for, and in the end they would have that monstrous and repulsive creature, la femme homme. It might be pleasant to have a blooming and engaging First Commissioner of Works, and a lovely and accomplished Postmistress-General, but what would be thought if a great measure were stopped in its career because the learned Attorney-General had eloped with the Solicitress-General, or if the public business was at a stand-still on account of the accouchement of the Prime Ministress?"
• "They will elect a woman prime minister and “petticoat politics” will ride the government steeds astride. Why not—in England? The only two monarchs they have had for 400 years in whom they took real national pride were a pair of queens—Elizabeth and Victoria. If queens, why not prime ministresses?"
• "MAKE yourself comfortable on a log and meet the future Prime Ministers of Australia. At least they are potential Prime Ministers, or Prime Ministresses. THEY are to be found in a region of multi-colored parrots, scarlet banksias, white-blossomed red-gums, and blue boundlessness of ocean. Not that they are merely a set of surfers. They are a bit above that sort of thing—1200ft above it, to be exact. They are members of Ally, attending a Study Camp at Stanwell Tops. Ally is short for Australian Labor League of Youth, and Stanwell Tops is an arcadian spot 1200ft above Stanwell Park, on the way to the N.S.W. South Coast, and 30 odd miles from Sydney."
• "When there is only one man left in England, and you have taken from him every right and wrong with which he was born, when you are all Field-Marshals and he peels the potatoes for your meals in the mess, when you are both Prime Ministresses of England, wearing trousers habitually and carrying an umbrella always, you will still expect that one last man to pay for your lunch."