KING (to Second Prophet) Come you then and tell us what the warning is.
King Canute had heard in England that King Olaf of Norway had called out a levy, and had gone with his forces to Denmark, and was making great ravages in his dominions there.
He had paid his addresses to her; but she gave for answer, that she herself would choose whom of the men in her dominions she would take in marriage; and on that account the Thing was assembled, that she might choose a husband.
And thereupon new quarrels arose among the brothers; and because they thought their dominions too little, they drove about in piratical expeditions.
The king replied, "So much smaller a man am I than Canute the Great, that I can with difficulty defend my own Danish dominions against the Northmen.
He said that Olaf ought not to have had the presumption to take the dominions which the earl had held of him; and all the Swedish king's men agreed with him.
It is, I think, the privilege of us Varings here in the dominions of the Greek emperor to be free, and independent of all but their own commanders, and bound only to serve the emperor and empress.
That was shown when he came here to Norway, and laid waste the greater part of the land, and seized on all the scat and revenues; and thou darest not go across the Danish dominions for this brother of mine, King Svein.
As soon as he reached the dominions of the king of Norway, the bondes assembled in a great multitude.
Now this went so, as it often happens, that although the kings were brothers-in-law and relations, each would hold fast the dominions which he thought he had a right to.
Now it has so turned out, as ye have no doubt heard, that I have taken the Danish dominions as my heritage after Hardaknut.
He gave himself out for a good knight, and offered his services to King Magnus; for he understood that in the king's dominions there was something to be done.
The king also desired to see the Catholic church in his dominions restored to an orderly and thriving condition, and for this end concluded a concordat with Rome in 1821.
Reformation, and formally introduced it into his dominions in A.
Philip of Hesse had assembled the peers temporal and spiritual of his dominions in Oct.
Poland thought a union of Protestants and Catholics in his dominionsnot impossible, and with this end in view arranged the =Religious Conference of Thorn= in A.
He delivered the States of the Church from the power of the bandits, who had occasioned unspeakable confusion and introduced throughout these dominions a reign of terror.
Hermann was willing to secure the religious peace of his dominionsby resignation, but this was refused, and being too weak to offer resistance, he resigned unconditionally.
His dominions were thoroughly Lutheran, but from A.
The emperor took no notice of those who opposed it, the presence of his Spaniards in their dominions would prevent all trouble.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, his son Mindowe endeavoured to enlarge his dominions by conquest.
Buonaparte peremptorily exacted the cession of Tuscany, the hereditary dominions of the brother of Francis, which were to be given up to a prince of the House of Parma, while the archduke was to obtain an indemnity in Germany.
Portugal, too, though the integrity of her dominions had been guaranteed by the preliminaries of the peace with England, had been induced, by a treaty kept studiously private from the British court, to cede her province of Guiana to France.
While, therefore, the last pledge of Austria's dominions in Italy was confided to such safe custody, the Emperor and his ministers were eagerly engaged in making a new effort to recover their Italian territories.
He was received like a victorious monarch re-entering his dominions at his own time and pleasure.
The contest with Austria was hereafter to be waged on the hereditary dominions of that haughty power.
The harbours of the Neapolitan dominions were of course to be closed against the English.
Having thus established his power in Italy as firmly as in France, Buonaparte proceeded to take measures for extending his dominions in the former country and elsewhere.
The heir of the Angeli escaped to Albania and succeeded in retaining a small fraction only of his ancestraldominions [1246].
The whole interior of the Balkan Peninsula formed at this period part of the dominions of Samuel King of the Bulgarians, who reigned over Bulgaria, Servia, inland Macedonia, and other districts around them.
By 1325 they had reduced the Emperor's dominions on the east of the straits to a narrow strip, reaching from the Dardanelles to the northern exit of the Bosphorus, and bounded by the Bithynian hills to the south.
He granted Manuel peace, on the condition that he ceded all his dominionssave the cities of Constantinople and Thessalonica and the Peloponnesian province.
When he had reduced all Cilicia, Pisidia, and Pontus, his dominions became a narrow fringe of coast, surrounding on three sides the realm of the Sultan, who still retained all the Cappadocian and Lycaonian plateau.
The Tartars swarmed all over Asia Minor, occupied Broussa, the Ottoman capital, and restored to their thrones all the Seljouk Emirs whose dominions Murad I.
When he distributed his dominions among his heirs, it was Gaul that he gave as the noblest share to his eldest and best-loved son: Italy was to him a younger child's portion.
Paleologi, and showed some signs of capacity, but of what use was it to a prince whose sole dominions were Constantinople, Thessalonica, and the Peloponnesus?
While Licinius was absent in Italy, Maximinus treacherously attacked his rival's dominions without declaration of war, and took Byzantium by surprise.
He had resolved to induce the crusading chiefs to do him homage, and to swear to restore to him all the old dominions of the empire which they might reconquer from the Turks.
Isaac was thrown into a dungeon, and the English king gave his dominions to Guy of Lusignan, who called in Frank adventurers to settle up the land, and made it into a feudal kingdom of the usual Western type.
Manuel had very luckily cast in his lot with Mohammed during the later years of the Turkish civil war, and his ally let him enjoy the dominions he had recovered by his original treaty with Suleiman in 1403.
After the Lombard conquest the imperial dominions in Italy were administered by a governor, called the Exarch, who dwelt at Ravenna, the northernmost and strongest of the imperial fortresses.
Bad though the internal government of the dominions of Alexius III.
The municipalities within the Florentine dominions were accustomed to send yearly presents to the capital on certain feasts, and they did not neglect to send offerings to the head of the Republic.
By the Florentines he had been urged to give practical proof of his good intentions, and not to suffer his dominions to be a harbour for designs against neighbouring States.
He was heard of soon after, as having fled into the dominions of the French king, and the next account of him was, that he had gone to the Holy Land.
The kingdom of Bernicia was added by his death to the already extensive dominions of the conqueror, and with the increase of his territories, increased also the sufferings of the Christians, whom he persecuted with unwearied malignity.
You will oblige me by walking out of my dominions at once,' he said, well knowing what a mockery lay in the words.
He thought that here was not only a great continent extending to the South Pole to be added to the dominions of his sovereign, but millions of souls to be saved and brought within the fold of the Church.
Subsequent history will show in what way Russia endeavored to solve this conflict between her anti-Jewish traditions and the necessity of harboring in her dominions the greatest center of the Jewish Diaspora.
Memorandum Concerning the Condition of the Jews,"[273] in which he appealed to the Russian Tzar to emancipate the Jews of his dominions and persuade the Prussian and Austrian rulers to do likewise.
He made peace with the Danes, and allowed them to live in his dominions mixed with the English.
This dynasty gradually extended its dominions from sea to sea, and reached a pitch of prosperity before unknown.
Bengal province of Orissa; then the wild highlands of the Central Provinces; next the dominions of the nizam of Hyderabad; and lastly, on the N.
The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our licence under our great seal.
From the Times to the obscurest news-sheet of the remotest corner of the British Dominions the word has gone forth.
The Dominions are far off, and while they may give battleships they take men.
Hitherto, there was only the possibility that Germany might find at least a commercial and financial outlet in the Asiatic dominions of the Sultan.
To this must be added the call of the Great Dominions for men and officers to man their local fleets.
The person to be employed in his dominions to act for the Committee [Company?
The example and success of Bohemia afforded a tempting seduction to the other hereditary dominions of Austria, and all attempted by similar means to extort similar privileges.
The immediate danger of his dominionsaroused all Maximilian's activity; and however little he had hitherto disturbed the enemy's progress to his frontier, he now determined to dispute as resolutely the remainder of their course.
Among the hereditary dominions of the House of Austria, Hungary and Transylvania were the most unstable, and the most difficult to retain.
It was now the turn for Maximilian, the leader of the League, to feel in his own dominions the miseries he had inflicted upon others.
What had the Empire to look for from a prince incapable even of defending his hereditary dominions against its domestic enemies?
On their right, they might fall upon the territories of the Roman Catholic princes, or penetrate, on the left, into the hereditarydominions of Austria, and make the Emperor tremble in his palace.
Almost all of his German hereditary dominions had in the meantime entered into a formidable league with the Bohemians, whose insolence now exceeded all bounds.
Convinced that the welfare of her dominions depended on the security of the Protestants, this politic princess had never swerved from the principle of promoting every enterprise which had for its object the diminution of the Austrian power.
The island was for a short time added to thedominions of George III.
Imperial Crown of this Realm, and all the dominions thereunto belonging.
Early in 955, however, the king sent to them, and asked if they held firm to their previous resolve, and on receiving an answer in the affirmative, he threatened all the Christians in hisdominions with loss of privileges and even death.
Queen Mary, had all public baths in his Spanish dominions destroyed, on the ground that they were relics of infidelity.
It is said, that the Regent of Brazil has made grants of land to British subjects, but that the Portugueze are not permitted to possess landed property in the dominions of His Britannic Majesty.
British subjects resident in the Portugueze dominions shall be permitted to nominate special magistrates to act for them as judges-conservator.
British East Indian goods and West Indian produce may be subjected to prohibitory duties in the dominions of Portugal.
Prince Regent of Portugal, his heirs or successors, should again establish the seat of the Portugueze monarchy within the European dominions of that crown.
Every Portugueze well knows the dreadful state of the courts of justice in all the dominions of his sovereign, and how extremely difficult it is to obtain redress under any grievance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
