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Example sentences for "certain king"

  • Now she used to resort to a certain King's palace,[FN#217] whose dwellers were blessed by her presence and she was held of them in high honour.

  • An expedition to Arabia, against a certain king Hazael (Khazailu), in which the capital of Edom is stormed and the deity of the place falls into his hands, certainly belongs to this period of his reign.

  • He was, however, defeated by a certain king of a certain country (the names cannot be read on account of the mutilated condition of the tablets).

  • The account of Herodotus relates to a certain king Sethos, a priest of Vulcan (believed to represent Shabak of the XXVth Dynasty).

  • In an Annamite saga a certain king wished to build a town on a site he had fixed upon.

  • A story belonging to the Cinderella cycle, found at Smyrna, relates that when a certain king desired to marry his own daughter, the maiden, by the advice of her Fate, demanded as the price of compliance three magnificent dresses.

  • A certain king had a handsome daughter born to him.

  • A certain king, who had gone to hunt, once found him, and wounded him so sorely with his weapons, that he with difficulty escaped to his den alive.

  • There was a certain king in a city in the Dekkan.

  • A certain king took to himself a treasure-finder.

  • Solomon's Choice of Wisdom, in preference to all other precious things, is thus finely illustrated: A certain king had an officer whom he fondly loved.

  • Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

  • A certain king made a marriage for his son," the two important features here are the royal state of the father, and the specific designation of the supper as the nuptial feast of his son.

  • There was a certain king, whose wife went out one day to walk in the garden.

  • Another story, from the Archangel Government, tells how a certain King, as he roamed afield with his princes and boyars, found a grain of corn as large as a sparrow's egg.

  • Here is an outline of it:-- To a certain king a daughter is born who has three breasts.

  • In it the elder sons of a certain king wish to get rid of their younger half-brother.

  • In his reign a certain king of the Picts, named Rodric, came from Scythia with a great fleet, and arrived in the north part of Britain, which is called Albania, and began to ravage that country.

  • In his time a certain king of the Morini[172] arrived with a great force in Northumberland, and began to destroy the country.

  • The day after the King was informed that a certain King of Navarre, called Furra, designed to fight him at Mount Garzim.

  • A certain king had an only son whom he much loved.

  • Now, a certain King happened to go one day to the chase, and a falcon escaping from him flew in at the window of that palace.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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