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Example sentences for "annual tribute"

  • Retaining his royal name, and the actual government of his country, he admitted the suzerainty of the Scyths, and agreed to pay them an annual tribute.

  • Under the payment of an annual tribute, the Mahometan law secured to the Ghebers of Herat their civil and religious liberties: but the recent and humble mosch was overshadowed by the antique splendor of the adjoining temple of fire.

  • This prince, who was subject to the Caliph Mamun, paid an annual tribute of slaves, Turkish horses, and other valuables.

  • Philip's threatened attack brought John to his knees; and in 1213 he not only accepted Stephen Langton, but even surrendered his kingdom to the Papacy to receive it back as a papal fief, and undertook to pay an annual tribute.

  • Innocent invested him by a ring with the allodial or freehold lands of the Countess in return for an annual tribute and on the understanding that at Lothair's death they should revert to the Papacy.

  • The Chins were invited to a parley, and they agreed to pay a small fine for their misconduct and to yield an annual tribute in future.

  • Government, and to bind themselves to pay an annual tribute of Rs.

  • The terms imposed on them were the surrender of the captives, the payment of a fine and of an annual tribute, and an engagement to keep the peace in future.

  • They pay him an annual tribute of six thousand two hundred and fifteen piastres, in horses, cattle, &c.

  • The Bedouins of the Belka are nominally subject to an annual tribute to the Pasha of Damascus; but they are very frequently in rebellion, and pay only when threatened by a superior force.

  • Austria was forced to sue for a treaty, and had to pay an annual tribute (1784).

  • The city of Ormuz bought its safety for an annual tribute of six hundred thousand pieces of gold.

  • From Shiraz, his troops advanced to the Persian Gulf; and the richness and weakness of Ormuz [16] were displayed in an annual tribute of six hundred thousand dinars of gold.

  • If your master be desirous of peace, let him pay me, as an annual tribute, the sum which he receives from the trade and customs of Constantinople.

  • Manuel sank into the grave; and John Palæologus was permitted to reign, for an annual tribute of three hundred thousand aspers, and the dereliction of almost all that he held beyond the suburbs of Constantinople.

  • John made terms with the Pope by agreeing to hold his kingdom in fief from the pontiff, and to pay an annual tribute of one thousand marks (1213).

  • At last the English King surrendered his crown to the papal agent Pandulf, and, like Peter of Aragon, received it back as a vassal of the papacy, bound by an annual tribute.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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