Usually preceded by Your or His or Her

Usage examples of excellency.

I began by showing him that Leticia Nazareno owed us for an amount of taffeta twice the nautical distance to Santa Maria del Altar, that is, one hundred ninety leagues, and he said aha as if to himself, and I ended up by showing him that the total debt with the special discount for your excellency was equal to six times the grand prize in the lottery for ten years, and he said aha again and only then did he look at me directly without his glasses and I could see that his eyes were timid and indulgent, and only then did he tell me with a strange voice of harmony that our reasons were clear and just, to each his own, he said, have them send the bill to the government.

Excellency, the Hallichek Ambassadress, wishes to make a further complaint to you in person.

His Excellency also resolved that no cleric of his archbishopric, of whatever rank or degree he be, either by himself or in the name of the communities which he represents, may or ought to go to the said functions celebrated in the convents or churches of the said Society.

I shall be none the less astonished if his excellency refuses to receive me on account of a private quarrel between myself and the State Inquisitors, of which he knows no more than I do, and I know nothing.

I went to the coffee-house, not doubting for one moment that his excellency would laugh at the captain, and that the post-mortem buffoonery would greatly amuse the whole of Corfu.

Minolto, adjutant of the proveditore-generale, came to inform me that his excellency wanted to see me.

My right leg was already in irons, and the left one was in the hands of the man for the completion of that unpleasant ceremony, when the adjutant of his excellency came to tell the executioner to set me at liberty and to return me my sword.

I was preparing to take my leave, when the majordomo came to inform me that his excellency desired me to remain to supper.

His excellency would give her fifty guineas a month, and pay for supper whenever he came and spent the night with her.

I congratulated them on their success, and congratulated myself in their presence upon being the possessor of a thing to which I had until then attached no importance whatever, but which I promised to cultivate carefully, knowing that I could thus be of some service to their excellencies.

Foscari, but the adjutant, rather ashamed, assured me that his excellency did not expect me to do so.

Mellish was nervously anxious to go straight to his Fumigatory, and talked at random until tiffin was over and His Excellency asked him to smoke.

Monsieur Gering, your excellency, we are as easily enemies as he and Radisson are comrades-in-arms.

Excellency, one of the men tells me that Sergeant Gleed cannot be aboard because he saw him in town an hour ago.

This was what said his Excellency, the popular Pedrito, the guerrillero skilled in the art of laying ambushes, charged by his brother at his own demand with the organization of Sulaco on democratic principles.