Sentence Examples

1. In June, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, accepted the imminent death of Edward it was a matter of weeks, if not days, he had been told.
2. Now, however, Northumberland needed Edward to change it, and that required that the boy be aware of the immediacy of his death.
3. Northumberland had been able to assure the young monarch that this was a mere security, an eventually that he needed to provide against.
4. Northumberland needed Edward without him his fall was sure.
5. Northumberland stared up at the portrait of the man who had so magnificently changed the rules to marriage, to ruling, to legitimacy.
6. Northumberland needed to get the Devise changed, Edward had to sign the amendment with the privy councillors witnessing it.
7. Northumberland crossed the room and took a seat opposite.
8. When it became obvious that the boy was reclined too far to be able to write it was Northumberland who hoisted him up while another of those in attendance pressed a pillow behind his back to support him.
9. Northumberland did not really want any more witnesses to this event than were necessary, and those that would see it had been carefully chosen.
10. The discourse so far had covered such general topics as the ill-health of the English monarch, the continued strings of power gathered in fistfuls by Northumberland, the price wars that had starved some of those lucky enough to survive the sweating sickness, plus the inevitable conversation about the ferocity of the storm that continued to rage outside.