| They refused to use honorific titles and deferential forms of address such as your excellency, my lord, because they were not literally true. |
| Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is unvaluable. |
| For we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of ourselves. |
| When I had somewhat considered the excellency of the advocateship, I adventured to write what I have seen thereof. |
| What is significant to notice here, is that Du Bois seems to borrow some of his descriptions of the excellency of art from classical references. |
| In England, John Mitchell Kemble contended that the excellency of the English was due to their Germanic roots. |
