So now they leave Tagus’ banks and the home of the west winds and hasten towards the cities that recognize the empery of the east.
He felt, somehow, that he had won to empery over the delicate lines and firm muscles of those feet and ankles he had rubbed with snow, and this empery seemed to extend to all women.
It was in this mood that he discovered something that made him forget empery over the white feet of woman.
And often, when woman was nigh to winning to the empery of my mind over me, I sought Laulani's shin-bone.
With dread of deities and press them crushed Down to the earth, because their ignorance Of cosmic causes forces them to yield All things unto the empery of gods And to concede the kingly rule to them.
Deduction has of course survived as a method of conducting thought; but it has lost the undisputed empery which it held over the ancient and the medieval mind.
Romance survives, of course; but it has lost the undisputed empery of fiction which it held in ancient and in medieval times.
Those that are proud of fickle empery And place their chiefest good in earthly pomp, Behold the Turk and his great emperess!
But, lady, this fair face and heavenly hue Must grace his bed that conquers Asia, And means to be a terror to the world, Measuring the limits of his empery By east and west, as Phoebus doth his course.
The heavens do not advance their majesty Over their marge; beyond his empery The ensigns of the wind are not unfurled, His reign is hooped in by the pale o' the world.
Quoth she, 'An I but knew that thou wouldst bring me news of my lord Er Reshid, it were liefer to me than the empery of the world.
She hath herempery Not only over thee But o'er our misery.
Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak, At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled.
He felt, somehow, that he had won to empery over the delicate lines and firm muscles of those feet and ankles he had rubbed with snow, and this empery seemed to extend to the rest and all of this woman of his kind.
And there would I Ease him of rule, and take the empery Of all on me.
