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Example sentences for "great king"

  • O, give us leave, great King, To view the field in safety, and dispose Of their dead bodies!

  • Therefore, great King, We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.

  • O great King," he replied; "I did not sleep all night.

  • O great King, in the seventh fold of the bedding there is a hair, which pricked me in the back, therefore I could not sleep.

  • When the queen Vasavadatta heard that, she said to the king--"Great king, why do you suddenly say this now?

  • So you must consult the astrologers, and marry her in accordance with good custom at an auspicious time, for she is the daughter of a great king.

  • And, while he was in that town, he married the daughter of Surasena, and became a great king there.

  • Thy statutes, O great king, I keep, I love; So on the realm to bring Peace from above.

  • When your envoy, great king, came to demand a princess, this lady would have answered the summons, but the Emperor of Han could not bring himself to part with her, and refused to yield her up.

  • For this the Emperor would have beheaded me; and I therefore escaped with the portrait of the lady, which I present, great king, to yourself.

  • Hence, O great king, the foremost of Yatis say that the Soul is the Presider.

  • There is a great king of the name of Vasu who is of righteous soul and rigid vows.

  • Do thou, O great king, adopt this behaviour which was followed by those royal sages.

  • It behoveth thee, O great king, to become that which thou art by birth.

  • She did not know who he was, but thought that he was a prince from some far-off land; for he came in the guise of a young man, and did not look like the great king of earth and sky that he was.

  • Great king," he said, "I am a stranger in Athens, and I have come to you to ask food and shelter and friendship such as I know you never deny to those of noble rank and of your own race.

  • The fowler said, "O great king, the bird will tell its own price.

  • I have told them that you are yourself a great king, and you must behave yourself as one.

  • The port where they landed was not a small place; it was a large city, the capital of a great king.

  • She did this because her husband was going to the palace of a great king, who could not be approached by men clothed in dirty rags; besides, as a Brahman, he was bound to appear neat and clean.

  • That which misery and misfortune have of the most bitter for the exalted of this world, only served to develop in him the virtue of a Christian hero and the character of a great king.

  • Remain then in Europe, where you will have so many opportunities of displaying the virtues of a great king, of a king the father of his subjects, the model and support of the princes of his house.

  • It owed its existence to the watchfulness, sagacity, and disinterested aid of Prussia's great king.

  • He has proved himself a soldier and a diplomat, and I hope he will become a great king.

  • I should have known that your majesty could never command the execution of that which is not to be forced; that my great king recognizes, as well as I, that love is not compulsory, or fidelity either.

  • But there still remains for the great king a noble work to perfect," cried Herzberg.

  • Now cast this sorrow from thy heart, And let us all, great King, depart.

  • King Edward was not only a great King, but a great sportsman as well.

  • And, O great king, a well-known Danava named Vivindhya, a mighty warrior wielding a large and powerful bow, encountered Charudeshna!

  • And O great king, we will live wherever thou likest!

  • Already he was back in his island Mountain and his people surrounded him and said: "You have been gone for more than ten years, great king!

  • Said they: "It is well that you have come back again, great king!

  • Thereupon the scholar was frightened, he bowed twice, and prayed: "Great King, you have taken this trouble on my account!

  • They thanked him and began to flatter him: "With your power and wisdom, great king, why should you have to serve the Lord of the Heavens?

  • What am I, to carry the marks of such a great King!

  • As for myself, I am here in good case, well feasted with a great King.

  • Honours to be paid to him which were due to the Son of a great King.

  • When Frederic-Augustus ascended the Throne, he brought all the Virtues to it fitting for a Great King.


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