The Emperor and bothEmpresses not only kissed the cross, but the archbishop's hand.
Those of the Empresses are ornamented with diamonds and jewels.
But you have broken an Imperial army; destroyed Imperial palaces; seized the persons of sovereigns; banished them to remote regions, and exiledEmpresses and princes of the Blood.
They furnished Empresses and consorts to the reigning sovereigns, and took their own wives from the Minamoto family, itself of Imperial lineage.
Such had been the practice in the case of the Empresses Jito, Gemmyo, and Gensho.
Yoshimitsu himself frequently repaired to the Kinri and the Sendo, and frequently accompanied the Empresses and their ladies on social visits or pleasure excursions.
Emperors and Empresses of Austria had been its victims, and almost every one of Maria Theresa's children bore, sooner or later, its brand upon their faces.
Go to the imperial vault, and learn from the ashes of the emperors and empresses who sleep there, the nothingness of all worldly splendor.
This we have lately experienced to be the case of the two empresses of Germany and Russia: England, France, and Spain, must pay their respective allies, or they may as well be without them.
Amongst all other, the earles sonne Brian, and Miles of Glocester were right ioifull of the news of the empresses arriuall, and gladlie prepared themselues to fight in defense of hir cause.
According to the Penal Code, there may be no impersonation of emperors and empresses of past ages, but this clause is now held to refer solely to the present dynasty.
Next time you enter the imperial chamber be pleased to forget the lesson and to remember that Emperors and Empresses are not men and women.
Sire," I answered, "as you command I will remember that Emperors and Empresses are not men and women, but Emperors and Empresses.
Death hovers over these paths where formerly princesses passed in their palanquins and empresses with their silk-robed followers.
The Empresses of Russia or Austria or the Pompadour might die, or the allies might quarrel between themselves.
Austria and Russia must be as tired of the war as Prussia, and this last defeat of their hopes cannot but discourage the two empresses greatly.
Two empresses of Germany deserve a passing notice here--Mathilda, the wife of Henry I.
The respect for morality is already much greater than it was at Petersburg in the time of those emperors and empresses who depraved opinion by their example.
The two present empresseshave made those virtues beloved, of which they are themselves the models.
The enormous sums expended by the wealthy on rings may be best understood by an allusion to the recorded value of two belonging to empresses of Rome.
Near his shoulder extended a double line of brawny young girls with coronal braids imitating the coiffures of empresses and grand duchesses.
And he was thinking of Doña Constanza; Empresses must be just that fragrant.
In fact, there was something singular in the simultaneous presence in France of two empresses sharing almost equally the official honors.
The Emperor of Austria and the two Empresses received the congratulations of all the nobility.
There he found Irene, the empress, in travail, in a house anciently appointed for the empresses during childbirth.
In February 1873 the two dowager empresses resigned their powers as regents.
From the same candidates the emperor also selects secondary-empresses (usually not more than four).
There have been at least three empresses of Russia since Peter the Great, and two of them were very wise rulers.
Suetonius, Pliny, and the Historia Augusta, showing that it was the custom to erect to Emperors and Empresses statues of elephants drawing triumphal chariots.
And here the rules of rhetoric would require me to compare her with a long line of Empresses in the past.
This is shown by the fact that no less than nine empresses have ruled the land.
The empresses selected Tsai Tien, a son of Prince Chun, brother of the powerful Kung.
There have been a number of cases of empresses regent.
It was not long, however, before an edict was issued degrading the prince, whose growing power and arrogance the empresses feared.
Soon she sickened--some said because of her grief for her husband, while others knew of the determination of the empresses to retain power at all hazards.
The rage of the two empresses and the vanity and spite of the concubine had been completely foiled.
Having got wind of the scheme, in concert with the two Empresses Dowager, who had secured possession of the Emperor, he promptly caused the conspirators to be seized.
The position of these two Empresses was a curious one.
The bodies of the two Empresses were discovered, and the late Emperor's sons were captured and kindly treated; but of the Emperor himself there was for some time no trace.
The rivalry and dissension in the court between the two empresses showed itself particularly in the religious controversies of the time, and especially in the so-called Nestorian heresy regarding the dual nature of Christ.
What a contrast is offered between the empresses of these later centuries and the great names of the earlier period, Eudoxia and Pulcheria and Eudocia and the great Theodora!
Hence, both their natural proclivities and the zeal of their followers forced the two empresses into an attitude of rivalry which could only be settled by the retirement or fall of one or the other of them.
The death of Maximin seemed to assure the empresses of a favorable alteration in their fortune.
In native gifts and force of character, and in her checkered history, the Empress Anne of Savoy deserves a place by the side of the earlier self-asserting empresses of Constantinople.
Chrysaphius knew also how to play the two empresses off against each other, so as to gain his own ends.
The result of this conflict of opinion between the rival empresses was that the policy of Theodosius was always wavering; he was consistent neither in orthodoxy nor heterodoxy.
Following Eudoxia were the rival Empresses Pulcheria and Eudocia, celebrated for their beauty, their culture, and their piety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "empresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
