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Example sentences for "imperial"

Lexicographically close words:
imperfection; imperfections; imperfectly; imperfects; imperforate; imperialis; imperialism; imperialist; imperialistic; imperialists
  1. Perhaps the Imperial Government of the day thought that the fusion of the two Governments and populations into one would render the new Government more liberal and loyal; but the result proved otherwise.

  2. I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under those rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.

  3. If ever one man lived more zealous than another for the supremacy of Parliament, and the rights of the imperial crown, it was Edmund Burke.

  4. Wherein did it involve any more than rightful attention to Imperial authority and interests?

  5. Was ever appeal to the Imperial Parliament by British subjects more justifiable than that of Dr.

  6. Governor Barnard rejoined, in his last words to the Assembly, "To his Majesty, and if he pleases to his Parliament, must be referred your invasion of the rights of the Imperial sovereignty.

  7. The bees that adorned the imperial mantle of Napoléon were found in the tomb of Childeric.

  8. It remained for a considerable period unoccupied, and was at last granted to Joséphine, by her imperial husband.

  9. Kepler also sent a copy of his book to the imperial astronomer, Raimar, with a complimentary letter, in which he exalted him above all other astronomers of the age.

  10. Notwithstanding this answer, I have yet hopes that your most honourable invitation will be of service to me, and may make the imperial treasurer more ready than he has hitherto been to fulfil his master's intentions towards me.

  11. Kepler's library was sealed up by desire of the Jesuits, and nothing but his connexion with the Imperial Court secured to him his own personal indemnity.

  12. Kepler made a last attempt to obtain them at Ratisbon, where the imperial meeting was held, but without success.

  13. On this spot stands the imperial city of Weil, in the duchy of Wirtemberg.

  14. Kepler in the post he had filled under his two predecessors on the imperial throne.

  15. His salary was charged partly on the states of Silesia, partly on the imperial treasury; but it was in vain that repeated orders were procured for the payment of the arrears due to him.

  16. His claims on the imperial treasury, which amounted at this time to 8000 crowns, and which Ferdinand would gladly have transferred to the charge of Wallenstein, still remained unsatisfied.

  17. It was supposed that Count Bulukof, the Russian minister, would be the last of the Moussafirs, or imperial hostages, confined in this fortress; but since the year 1784 M.

  18. Try Your hand at hardened and imperial Sin.

  19. Majesty should take Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one Of them his lips imperial ever spake!

  20. Wordsworth's noble appeal from a provincial to an imperial authority, from the present to the future, is not strengthened by the obvious reference to the popularity of contemporaries.

  21. It was an architect named Stasicrates who proposed to execute this imperial monument.

  22. And thus I supplicate your supposition, And mildest, matron-like interpretation, Of the imperial favourite's condition.

  23. Since the days of Imperial Rome, never had been seen in these seas so imposing a spectacle, never had there been collected so many ships moving towards a single end dominated by a single will.

  24. There were in this galley twenty-four yellow damask banners, inscribed with the imperial arms; a pennon at the main of crimson taffeta of immense length and breadth, with a golden crucifix embroidered thereon.

  25. Could not the Viceroy of Sicily be trusted to work his best to gain the favour of his Imperial master?

  26. At last, on September 5th, the Imperial fleet hove in sight.

  27. Really, from the deck of the Elena, Portree looked a very comfortable place, with the bay lined with buildings, and conspicuous among them all the Imperial Hotel, where the Empress of the French stayed while travelling in these parts.

  28. Such men, in working out their own destiny, are evolving also the imperial destiny of the Mother-Country.

  29. The Queensland contingent of the Imperial Bushmen was to embark in the afternoon for South Africa, and we joined the cheering throng that lined Queen Street to see the men ride past.

  30. Beasts of the forest have their savage homes, But He, who should imperial purple wear, Owns not the lap of earth where rests his royal head!

  31. I'd be mair vauntie o' my hap, Douce hingin owre my curple, Than ony ermine ever lap, Or proud imperial purple.

  32. I vow I trembled at your temerity--your familiarity with the imperial nod was fearful.

  33. When I have perused the histories of father Cristobal, it will then be my fault, if I am found ignorant of the names of his imperial ancestors.

  34. At the point of junction was a sort of military work, consisting of a bastion, a strong wall, and two towers, guarding the approach to the imperial city.

  35. If it may suit your convenience to bear the same, in person, to his imperial majesty, I hope you will have no cause to repent doing me so great a favour.

  36. I glanced back at the receding shock-haired figure in the long black clerical coat and high boots, little dreaming that I had met the mock-Saint whose evil influence was to cause the downfall of the Imperial House of Romanoff.

  37. Rasputin, with all his mujik's shrewdness, preserved many letters written to him by women of all grades, hoping that when cast out of the Imperial circle he could use them for purposes of blackmail.

  38. In consequence of these instructions Rasputin immediately set to work to execute the wicked command of His Imperial Master in Berlin.

  39. You will note Ivan Scheveleff, of the Imperial chancellerie.

  40. You should consider the suggestion at your end, and if you decide upon it, the necessary steps can easily be taken, though we consider nothing should be done in Petrograd, because of yourselves and the Imperial family.

  41. What if her own Imperial self were exhibited in her true traitorous colours!

  42. Imperial Germany with her long-prepared plans had seized the Russian bear by the throat, and was throttling it, just as she has attempted to grapple with the British lion.

  43. Surely no novelist, living or dead, could have ever imagined a situation so astounding and yet so tragic, for the fate of one of the mightiest Imperial Houses of the modern world was now trembling in the balance.

  44. The signature, scribbled in blue ink upon these remarkable instructions, is that of the notorious Herr Steinhauer, the Kaiser's chief spy and controller of the whole secret ramifications of Imperial Germany throughout the civilised world.

  45. In a word, imperial and colonial duties dried up the energies of the people, and gave new life to a contraband trade that was fast destroying the best interests of the State.

  46. That imperial first transgressor had the fickle imaginations of his people to dazzle by paying off certain old scores; even now how beautifully he plays the disinterested to curtain the designs of his ambition!

  47. Tobacco paid imperial and colonial duties approximating to a prohibition; and the consumer of the weed was considered quite an extravagant aristocrat, who either had dealings with smugglers, or was wasting his fortune in the ways of the devil.

  48. They must have felt also that Athens, if repulsed there, must pause for ever in her career of conquest, and sink from an imperial republic into a ruined and subservient community.

  49. The mission of Imperial Rome was, in truth, already accomplished.

  50. France defeated and taken prisoner by the imperial army at Pavia.

  51. On Gordon himself a medal of the highest class was bestowed, with a large sum of money, and, what the imperial government knew he would value much more, a grant for his wounded men and extra pay for the soldiers.

  52. The evacuation of Soukhoum had been decided upon, but His Imperial Majesty felt that the poor people, who had been expecting a permanent deliverance from the Russian yoke, could not be abandoned to those whose vengeance they had excited.

  53. I don't see why His Imperial Majesty's example is not followed by some of his subjects; perhaps we may yet come to that by-and-by.

  54. I was well and kindly received by His Majesty the Sultan, promoted to the rank of full admiral, and settled down to my work as a Turkish naval officer, head of the staff of the Imperial Navy.

  55. Hobart was entrusted with unlimited powers, and he accomplished his mission with so much vigour and with so much skill as to insure the good graces of the Porte, and he soon rose to be Inspector-General of the Imperial Ottoman Navy.

  56. We made our way first in the direction of the Palace, passing down the Chandni Chauk (Silver Street) and entering the Great Gate of the former imperial residence of the Mogul Emperors.

  57. We ascended one of the minarets, about 120 feet high, obtaining a grand view of the imperial city and the surrounding country.

  58. It had been a belief that they would in the future acquire the sovereignty of Hindostan, and I know for certain that among the soldiers for many years there had been a tradition that one day they would sack the imperial city of Delhi.

  59. Some time was occupied after the arrival of the baggage in pitching our camp; but when all was concluded, Vicars and I started on foot to take our first view of the imperial city.

  60. The truth is that the Imperial officers bought in a dear market during that Zulu War; moreover, things were not always straight.

  61. I suppose where the young man with a head like a door-mat and a face like a scraper is sitting is where the Imperial family congregates after dinner.

  62. As a matter of fact, much happened almost at once; for the beauty of Juliette, a lustrous and imperial beauty, caught the fancy of Gustave Lataille, who was conductor of the orchestra at one of the smaller theaters in Lyon.

  63. In 1880 the imperial apartments in "the Winterhof" were partially wrecked by similar means.

  64. There must be a swift overturning: the entire imperial family must be destroyed, and the Senate and Holy Synod must be compelled to adopt the Constitution which had been prepared.

  65. Next to the consolidation of the imperial authority, the event in this reign most affecting the future of Russia was the acquisition of Siberia.

  66. These were to be convoked and prorogued annually by Imperial Ukase.

  67. He had humiliated the nobility, had developed the movements initiated by his greater father, and had also shown tastes magnificent enough for the heir of his imperial mother, Sophia Paleologus.

  68. Confronting these imposing representatives of imperial and historic Russia are a few more or less discredited men, like M.

  69. The Emperor Nicholas, who comprehended so well the secret of imperial expansion, and so little understood the expanding qualities within his empire, was an impressive object to look upon.

  70. Thus hedged about and thus constituted, it is obvious that a conservative majority was permanently secured and ways provided to block any anti-imperial or revolutionary legislation in the Duma.

  71. But a bill must pass both Houses and then receive Imperial Sanction in order to become a law; and failing in this, cannot come up again during the same session.

  72. Filched from Rome by Constantine, they were carried to his own city as an ornament to the imperial hippodrome.

  73. The Emperor showed him marks of especial favour, but when the imperial forces were turned against the Christians, George remonstrated and refused.

  74. Petitions and memorials of retired officers of the army and navy who were desirous of obtaining lands in Nova Scotia as a reward for their services, now flowed in upon the provincial and imperial authorities.

  75. Charles Drury of the imperial army, father of the late Ward Chipman Drury.

  76. Have I not pronounced sentence of perpetual banishment upon you as a pretender to the imperial throne?

  77. Edgar had at once recognized him as Colonel la Combe of the Imperial Guard.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    imperial authority; imperial crown; imperial decree; imperial order; imperial power; imperial troops