A sneer just passed the lips of Brandon, and as instantly vanished, while Mauleverer continued,- "And as for the judgeship, dear Brandon, I advise you to accept it, though you know best; and I do think no man will stand a fairer chance of the chief-Justiceship,-or, though it be somewhat unusual for 'common' lawyers, why not the woolsack itself?
"Paul Clifford, Volume 3."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Other tribes, still having among them men whose grandfathers besieged Detroit under Pontiac, are now resolved into citizens of the United States, eligible for the chief-Justiceship or the presidency.
"The Indian Question (1874)"
Francis A. Walker
Webster's famous panegyric of Jay, that when the ermine of the Chief-Justiceship fell upon his shoulders it touched nothing that was not as pure as itself, suggests that a statue of John Jay might be of peculiar service as an object of admonitory meditation in the bowery seclusion of a city that more recently contemplated a statue to Tweed.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis