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Example sentences for "cardinals"

Lexicographically close words:
cardinalate; cardinale; cardinalis; cardinalists; cardinall; cardine; carding; cardiovascular; cardoon; cardoons
  1. This same Monday, 26th of August, after the two Cardinals had left the room, the King dined in his bed in the presence of those who were privileged to enter.

  2. The cardinals were divided; but the Spanish party were the strongest, and when the votes were taken carried the day.

  3. England, doth give and grant the same to aliens which did never dwell in England, and to cardinals which could not dwell here, and to others as well aliens as denizens, whereby manifold inconveniences have ensued.

  4. Some of the cardinals had said that they envied the monks their deaths in such a cause, and wished that they had been with them.

  5. The Emperor of the East, John Palaeologus, surrounded by his theologians and scribes, together with the Pope of Rome, on whom a train of cardinals and secretaries attended, now took up their quarters in the city of the Medici.

  6. The cardinals and nephews of the Pope, attended by foreign ambassadors, and followed by the apostolic secretaries, mingled with burghers of Florence and students from a distance round the desk of the young scholar.

  7. Sadoleto, Bembo, and Aleander, who began their career under Leo, received the hats of cardinals from Paul III.

  8. Albergati was one of the cardinals of Eugenius IV.

  9. Still, it was rumoured that the wicked cardinals were holding back the good Pope, and that they were opposing the armaments voted by the Council of State.

  10. He was disposed to rely continually on Cardinals who were out of sympathy with his Ministers; and he was particularly anxious to assert that, in introducing a Parliament, he had not surrendered his absolute authority as Pope.

  11. On the next day a regiment of French infantry dissolved the Assembly by force; and soon after a Commission of three Cardinals was appointed to govern Rome.

  12. The cry was again raised that the Cardinals were misleading the Pope, and special charges of treason were made against Antonelli.

  13. Cardinals in the minds of the Romans; and when the Emperor drove out in public on the 15th of March, he was received with loud cheers.

  14. The cardinals at once despatched Savelli to suppress the rising.

  15. He naturally referred the question to the cardinals about him; with whom Gardiner held long arguments, enforced, it would seem, by not a little browbeating of the College.

  16. Galileo received, as the result of a conference between Cardinals Bellarmin and Del Monte, a semi-official warning to avoid theology, and limit himself to physical reasoning.

  17. And the cardinals answered: "All that thou sayest we will do.

  18. I will thunder against you, all ye prelates and cardinals of Rome, even as once the holy fathers thundered against the pagans.

  19. Surrounded by the cardinals and dignitaries, the Pope stood watching the horses, long silent.

  20. The cardinals assented, and two days later the ceremony of investiture took place.

  21. The three cardinals appointed by the pope to examine the affair of this new Order, at first opposed it, thinking religious Orders already too much multiplied, but changed their opinions on a sudden, and pope Paul III.

  22. Giles withdrew a little from him, and, being ravished in spirit, remained speechless and without motion till very late in the night, to the great astonishment of his holiness, who spoke of it to his cardinals and others with great surprise.

  23. Nor for thy fingers precious, fabled rings That cardinals have worn, and queens have bought With blood and beauty.

  24. When shall the world be rid of these bald priests, Pig-snouted with their gilded wolfish ears, The scarlet cardinals of drunken feasts Whose hands are washed in blood, whose feet in tears?

  25. The candles were lit, and the motley troop of cardinals and red-legged servitors passed out.

  26. A procession was then formed, the cardinals going first with their palms held before them, and the Pope following, in his chair, with a small frame of palmwork in his hands, in which was woven the initial of the Virgin.

  27. An hour more was occupied in the entrance, one by one, of some forty cardinals with their rustling silk trains supported by boys in purple.

  28. His Holiness came in the state-coach with six long-tailed black horses, and all his cardinals in their red and gold carriages in his train.

  29. He mounted his throne as high as the altar opposite him, and the cardinals went through their obeisances, one by one, their trains supported by their servants, who knelt on the lower steps behind them.

  30. The other forty or fifty cardinals did the same, until each was provided with a palm.

  31. Sidenote: Cardinals sent to the kings of England and France to treat a peace.

  32. In the same yeare Berard bishop of Alba and Simon archbishop of Bourges, two cardinals of the Romane see, were sent vnto the kings of England and France, to mooue them to conclude a peace.

  33. If the Associated Press may be trusted, Bishop O'Farrell has expressed the opinion that the two American cardinals will be the Archbishop of Baltimore and the Archbishop of New York.

  34. The table was laid in a vineyard belonging to the pope, near San Pierdarena, a charming retreat which the cardinals knew very well by report.

  35. In the first place, he could sell the great appointments and splendid offices which the cardinals already held; and then he had the two hats to sell besides.

  36. Cardinals Caprara and Bentivoglio, who were poisoned.

  37. Then the pope and Caesar Borgia invited the two cardinals to dinner.

  38. Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.

  39. Caesar proposed to his father, that they should either ask the cardinals to open the cupboard, or shake hands with them; but Alexander VI.

  40. It is commonly thought that the beauties of the Renaissance in the lower Seine valley came as a result of the influence of the Cardinals of Amboise, who built the great château at Gaillon.

  41. In the same month of June, the marriage of the Pope's daughter, Lucrezia Borgia, to Giovanni Sforza of Pesaro was celebrated with great pomp in the Vatican, and the Pope and cardinals joined in the orgies which followed.

  42. Among the twenty-three Cardinals of which the Sacred College then consisted, three were prominent candidates for the papal tiara.

  43. What impressed this rough soldier most of all was the sight of three cardinals standing among the crowd at the door, "just as the chaplains may be seen in any other house," and among them the cardinal of S.

  44. Among other things, I saw a figure of the Pope surrounded by ten cardinals, which was said to be a prophecy of the ten cardinals whom the Pope is going to make to-morrow!

  45. Both the Castle of Bellagio and the town of Torno surrendered to His Reverence, who pushed on with his troops to Como, where he met Monsignore Sanseverino arriving from the Valtellina, and the two cardinals together did the rest.

  46. The two cardinals rode out to meet us, and Messer Galeaz and many gentlemen, with a great number of men-at-arms on foot and horseback, and we marched all through the city and up to the Duomo.

  47. In a few days his defiant mood gave place to one of abject terror, the two cardinals were released and sent to plead the Pope's cause with Charles VIII.

  48. The Pope and his cardinals cannot there any longer keep the Scriptures from the people, and they are sensible of the bondage in which they have been held.

  49. The Cardinals cannot have imagined that Bruno would ever open his heart or even speak freely to so shallow a nature so utterly different in all things from himself.

  50. They were present in the Court chapel, with Cardinals and Princes, when the King, laying his hand on a relic of the True Cross, took a solemn oath to keep the articles of the Treaty.

  51. The Duke of Lorraine came to Brussels with the Cardinals of Lorraine and Guise and the Constable, and spent a fortnight with his mother.

  52. However, after she had quarreled with various cardinals and decided to leave Rome for a while, Monaldeschi accompanied her to France, where she had an immense vogue at the court of Louis XIV.

  53. From this time she lived a life which she made interesting by her patronage of learning and exciting by her rather unseemly quarrels with cardinals and even with the Pope.

  54. No sovereign of his time kept so brilliant and expensive a court, and when one of the cardinals remonstrated and recalled the examples of Benedict and John, he replied magnificently: 'Ah!

  55. The conclave took place at Lyons, and he is said to have compassed his election by a promise to the Roman cardinals that he would not mount horse or mule except to go to Rome.

  56. Mr. Okey has collected many extraordinary details, from which I take as an example the account of the banquet given by two cardinals to Pope Clement V.

  57. The man who had singed the Pope's beard and chucked Cardinals under the chin was growing old, and the most daring of the others had no mind to fight with foes whose weapons were not of this world.

  58. Had cardinals and princes at her beck and call.

  59. Dark-eyed, a flashing, dazzling brunette, with a cosmopolitan reputation earned in a day when she posed in the studios of artist-queens and received at her door the cards of cardinals and princes.

  60. It was as if Augustus were again rising from the tomb, once more master of the world, with a Sacred College of Cardinals resuscitating the Roman Senate.

  61. And Pierre remembered that the Cardinals were not expected to walk in Rome, so that they were compelled to drive into the country when they desired to take exercise.

  62. Then, from eight o'clock till noon, there is a ceaseless procession of cardinals and prelates, all the affairs of the congregations passing under his eyes, and none could be more numerous or intricate.

  63. The Pope ordered the cardinals to perform a funeral ceremony at Rome in his honour.

  64. Popes and cardinals might prey upon its bowels, and sell its interests, but the system survived.

  65. The cardinals and archbishops of those days were constantly engaged in pacific, nor always futile, embassies.

  66. However this may be, he went in person to hasten the siege of Mirandola, in opposition to the protests of the cardinals and to the scandal of Christendom (1510).


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