Bolingbroke

How To Use Bolingbroke In A Sentence

• Richard and Bolingbroke ultimately represent two types of souls or distinct aspects of the soul that must be amalgamated in a single man, achieving the soul's harmony by counterpoint.
• Bolingbroke gives his solemn oath that he has come not to usurp the throne but simply to reclaim his rightful goods and title.
• There would have been quite other fish for Joan to fry, and other thread for her to retwist, if she had had to do with Henry of Bolingbroke instead of Henry of Windsor. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• The only Shakespeare play written entirely in verse, it contrasts the high-flown ideals of Richard with the low cunning of Henry Bolingbroke, the man who overthrows him and later has him murdered.
• Bolingbroke and the more reckless Tories were coquetting with the son of King James II.
• Of the principal character thus introduced (the celebrated and graceful, but charlatanic, Bolingbroke) I still think that my sketch, upon the whole, is substantially just. Devereux — Complete
• Nicknamed ‘Bully’ Bolingbroke, the viscount was a famous figure in the world of breeding and racing, both as an owner and as a reckless gambler.
• The fall of man is our plaister for all these particular maladies of body and soul, which you call “the general health”; but Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke have attacked original sin. A Philosophical Dictionary
• Bolingbroke's many posthumous publications excited intense controversy in the decade which immediately followed his death.
• Bolingbroke is not active enough; but I hope to swinge him. The Journal to Stella