wool-sack

It includes cheese-rolling contests, wool-sack races and shin-kicking competitions.

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012

“Billy Benbow”; “never sit on the wool-sack by spewing oakum this way.”

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

And since his elevation to the wool-sack there has been no abatement or modification of his offensive manner.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Having been Solicitor-General in two successive Administrations, he was filling for the second time the position of Attorney-General, when, upon the death of Lord Campbell, he was raised to the wool-sack.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Either it is my Lord Eldon who sits on the wool-sack, or the young curate bids his Oxford laurels against a head-mastership of a public school and covers his baldness with a mitre, or Jones Lloyd steps from his back parlor into the carriage which is to take Lord Overstone to the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

It was before the splendid forensic successes of Erskine had been rewarded by a seat on the wool-sack, or Wellington had completed his brilliant and decisive campaign in India, or the military glory of Napoleon had culminated at

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

The Lord-High-Chancellor, seated on the wool-sack, -- a crimson cushion, innocent of any support to the back, and by no means suggestive of comfort, or inviting deliberations of the peers, but is never addressed by the speakers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

He sat upon an ox-skin, which did duty for the wool-sack -- the very personification of the majesty of the law, with curled wig, and hide as black as the gown of the Lord Chief

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

The potting lady goes sniffing about and admitting light and air to prevent the progress of decay; while to him of the wool-sack all seems doubly dear in proportion as it is antiquated, worthless, and unusable.

Fallacies of Anti-Reformers 1909

But he only jeered in return: "Take off thy wool-sack."

Richard Carvel — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909