In the second by allowing me to lay before you certain grave and very serious charges against the Order of the Yellow Crayon, of which your Majesty is the titular head."
It is true that I am the titular head of this organisation.
I fell under that
titular avalanche a torn and blighted thing.
He was tall lean fine, with little in him, on the whole, to confirm the
titular in the "Colonel Voyt" by which he was announced.
The money was paid, and I became the vassal of Colonel Silky; a
titular soldier, but a traveling trader, who never lost sight of the main chance either in his campaigns, his journeys, or his pleasures.
I have always respected education when in conjunction with genuine sentiments, and I am besides a
titular counsellor in rank.
Call every man on your way, and bid him be stirring; name him by his lineage and by his father's name, give each all
titular observance, and stand not too much upon your own dignity; we must take our full share of toil, for at our birth Jove laid this heavy burden upon us."
Thrones, Dominations, Princedomes, Vertues, Powers, If these magnific Titles yet remain Not meerly
titular, since by Decree Another now hath to himself ingross't All Power, and us eclipst under the name Of King anointed, for whom all this haste Of midnight march, and hurried meeting here, This onely to consult how we may best With what may be devis'd of honours new Receive him coming to receive from us Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile, Too much to one, but double how endur'd, To one and to his image now proclaim'd?
A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were
titular and ephemeral but he.
The broken Sedley would have acted well as the boarding-house landlady's husband; the Munoz of private life; the
titular lord and master: the carver, house-steward, and humble husband of the occupier of the dingy throne.
Every reader must recollect, that after the fall of the Catholic Church, and the Presbyterian Church Government had been established by law, the rank, and especially the wealth, of the Bishops, Abbots, Priors, and so forth, were no longer vested in ecclesiastics, but in lay impropriators of the church revenues, or, as the Scottish lawyers called them, titulars of the temporalities of the benefice, though having no claim to the spiritual character of their predecessors in office.
But if, on the other hand, the titulars were men of inferior importance, who had been inducted into the office by the interest of some powerful person, it was generally understood that the new Abbot should grant for his patron's benefit such leases and conveyances of the church lands and tithes as might afford their protector the lion's share of the booty.