When the empress Mammaea passed through Antioch, she expressed a desire of conversing with the celebrated Origen, the fame of whose piety and learning was spread over the East.
The empress Justina, who had been left in a palace about one hundred miles from Bregetio, was respectively invited to appear in the camp, with the son of the deceased emperor.
The eunuchs and slaves diffused the spiritual poison through the palace, and the dangerous infection was communicated by the female attendants to the guards, and by the empress to her unsuspicious husband.
She accompanied the emperor and empress in their journey to Rome, and the latter, quaesitum venenum bibere per fraudem illexit, ut quotiescunque concepisset, immaturum abjicerit partum.
Robert de Segillo, a monk of Reading, whom Mawde the empress made bishop of London, where he sat eleven years.
The French empress then arrived in Alexandria, and was received by Ismail and Francis Joseph with salutes of guns and the acclamations of the people.
The sultan refused to be present, but theEmpress Eugenie accepted the invitation in the name of the French people.
The next day the French imperial yacht Aigle, with the empress on board, proceeded to steam up the canal, being followed by forty vessels.
Ever since the Empress Helena had built a church at Jerusalem, it had been thronged with pious pilgrims.
Ambrose, indeed, had rebuked Theodosius, and set in defiance the empress when she interfered with his spiritual functions; and Leo had firmly established the Papacy by emphasizing a divine right to his decrees.
Decrees issued relating to the educational institutions of the Empress Mary Department.
She was dressed in puce-coloured velvet, and had a diamond diadem on her forehead, and her plump, old white shoulders and bosom were bare like the portraits of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great.
Il devient de plus en plus aggressif," as the Empress put it afterwards.
For example: the Empress Dowager invited me to her palace, and the reigning Empress invited me to breakfast, and also sent for General von Versen to come to her palace and read to her and her ladies from my books.
At the age of twenty-six he had occasion to undertake a journey to Rome, in order to plead for two imprisoned Pharisees, in the presence of the Empress Poppea, and he succeeded in obtaining their freedom.
The Empress therefore wrote to Trajan, "Instead of subduing the barbarians, you should rather punish the Jews who revolt against you.
A Christian report represents the empress Zenobia as a Jewess, but the Jewish authorities make no mention of this fact.
The Empress Poppea, the friend of the Judaeans, was dead.
When they had ridden off, the dragon arrived and looked about, but the empress was not to be found.
When the dragon came, the empress began to coax him and make herself agreeable to him, and said to him: 'What a swift horse yours is!
Then the empress caught and mounted it, and they arrived safe and sound in the empress's dominions, and reigned honourably as long as they lived.
There was an emperor and empress who had three daughters.
Thus it happened, and the attendants came and told their master that a dragon had carried the empress away.
When a few days had elapsed after their marriage, the empress departed to go on a journey, and the prince remained alone.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he bade the empress to get ready for flight.
When Soliman read over the leaf of the white book, he shed tears abundantly, and his empress Solimanitza came to him and questioned him: 'Why do you weep, emperor Soliman?
The Empress of Russia, it is supposed, will not push her pretensions against the Turks to actual war.
This had naturally inclined the Emperor to the scale of England, and the Empress also, as having views in common with the Emperor, against the Turks.
The Empress endeavored to bully the Turk, who laughed at her, and she is going back.
The empress therefore sent a swift messenger demanding the reasons for this.
The Mongol empress made him furnish large quantities of timber from Păk-tu Mountain, floating it down the Yalu.
The empress of China at this time seems to have been a Koryŭ woman and her relatives, who abounded in the Koryŭ capital, expected to have their own way in all matters.
As the Mongol empress was a Koryŭ woman, the maternal grandmother of the crown prince of China was of course a Koryŭ woman.
The Emperor desired to accompany the expedition, but the death of the empress made it impossible.
The relatives of the Mongol empress still nursed the delusion that they could do as they pleased in Koryŭ, secure in the possession of such powerful friends at Peking.
A few of the pictures consoled me, and I stayed some time gazing at Winterhalter's portrait representing the Empress Eugénie.
The Empress had remarkably small feet, and in order to make them look still smaller she encased them in shoes that were too narrow.
When the piece was over we were recalled twice, and as it was the Empress who started the applause, I thought she was putting off the moment for getting up, and I saw her pretty little sore foot trying in vain to get back into its shoe.
I had a tent put up here on the spot that the Empress Eugénie afterwards selected for her villa.
His request was granted, and the Empress then took leave of us in the most charming manner, but her voice was very ugly.
Finally I saw one of the shoes pushing its little brother very, very gently, and then I saw the heel of the Empress come out of its prison.
What is a Roman knight to do if anempress sets her heart on him?
Calabrian Greek by birth, and a favourite of the empress Theophano, from whom he had received the bishopric of Placentia.
Rome in assurance of his succession to his father; and in 972 he also crowned Theophano asempress immediately before her marriage.
Being suspected by the empress and opposed by a powerful party at court, he rebelled, and got himself crowned emperor at Didymoteichos in Thrace, while John Palaeologus and his supporters maintained themselves at Constantinople.
In front of theempress rode the archbishop, bearing the imperial globe.
That of the emperor was led by two burgomasters, that of the empress by two town councillors.
The house where Charles halted exists to this day, as also that where the empress lodged.
The lodging of the empress was opposite to that of the emperor, and a covered way was built across the street to connect them.
It was before St. Gertrude's Chapel, then, that Charles and his great suite halted, and here he and his empress put on their imperial robes previous to entering the city.
The Empress and Prince both struck out, the one shouting as much as was consistent with a mouthful of water, "Save my son!
The sea is generally very rough at the entrance to the little harbour; and on the occasion in question, as the Empress was landing in a small boat from her steamer, the boat was upset close to land.
During the night the earl's wife awoke, and perceiving by the light of the lamp what had happened, accused the empress of the murder in the most bitter terms, and entreated her husband to inflict immediate punishment.
The empress requested a short respite, and addressed her prayers to heaven for assistance.
This was accordingly done; and when the innocence of the empress was clearly manifested, to the great and mutual surprise of all the parties, she first performed her promise to the sick, and then discovered herself to the emperor.
The empress on this occasion writes, "I am a king governing the age; all the world is mine.
For this purpose he contrived to get into the castle at night, and proceeding to the earl's chamber, found the empress in bed and asleep with the child.
On inquiry he learned that the empress had been just married, and that his subjects believed he had perished in his voyage to the Holy Land.
An empress falls in love with a young knight; and becoming extremely sick, the physicians inform her husband that there is no mode of cure, but the bathing her with the knight's blood.
He resolved to make a journey to the Holy Land, and, setting out immediately, left his kingdom in the custody of the empress and his nobles.
A tempest instantly arose, the ship sunk to the bottom, and all perished except the empress and the captain.
It happened that at this time the empress was in a foreign kingdom with her daughter.
It happened that a ship arrived in the harbour of this city laden with merchandize, and the empress despatched her servant to the captain, requesting him to attend her for the purpose of negociating for the articles she might want.
Thou shall have of us therefore the choice, lady, whether thou wilt go with us and be made empress of Rome, or that the emperor come hither and take thee for his wife?
This provoking delay could no more be foreseen by the Empress than by the Minister, who, in return for their presents and money almost overpowered the German Princes with his protestations of regret at their disappointments.
As empress she assumed a leadership in military matters never before occupied by a woman, and made it her boast that she was the first of her sex thus to found a colony of Roman veterans.
Perhaps it was his detestation of the conduct of the empress that made him a partisan of her rivals, so that Messalina could find a pretext for accusing him of an intrigue with Julia.
As the niece of Claudius, Agrippina had been allowed to occupy a place in the imperial palace next to the empress Messalina herself.
So he sent a tribune and centurions to kill theempress in the garden of Lucullus, to which she had returned.
The Empress had not learnt that when the giants of social force are advancing from the sombre shadow of the past, with the thunder and the hurricane in their hands, our poor prayers are of no more avail than the unbodied visions of a dream.
Every one ought," said she, "to endeavor to render France dear to an Empress who has left her native country to take up her abode among strangers.
The Empress and the notary both stood amazed at this first intimation that the warning had been overheard.
When it was over, he dismissed the attendants, and approaching the Empress with a trembling step, took her hand, and laid it upon his heart.
No ill-feeling towards the new Empresswas excited in her bosom by the rapturous greetings with which she was welcomed on her arrival.
When the empress died, he retired to indulge his grief in the cloisters of La Sisla, at Toledo.
These tendencies were fixed by an incident which followed the death of the empress Isabella.
Though full credit should be given to the empress for this remarkable undertaking, it is but fair to remember that it was the philosopher who, nearly a hundred years before, sowed the seed that fell into good ground.
If an empress rides a hobby, there are many ready to help her.
At present they are in Paris, where she is working to get the same hilarious Tout Ensemble formerly exhibited by Elphye, the Ex-Empress of the White Light Reservation.
This uncrowned Empress of the 18th Ward was a she-Progressive assaying 98 per cent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
