Priestcraft and Kingcraftare partners in the same firm.
Kingcraft rears up its terrific mass, muffled in the mantle of Legitimacy; its head cowled and crowned, aud dripping with the holy oil of Divine Right; its eyes glaring deadly hate to human happiness; its lips demanding worship for itself.
It is the most powerful piece of satire against kingcraft in the English language, and while it remains to be read by the people, kings may look on and tremble.
This reminds me of what Paine says of popery and Peter: "A man hath as good reason to believe that there is as much of kingcraft as priestcraft in withholding the scripture from the public in popish countries.
Paine found the world cursed with two great evils, kingcraft and priestcraft, twin vultures that from the earliest ages have fed upon the vitals of humanity.
What "Common Sense" had done to kingcraft in America the "Age of Reason" promised to do to priestcraft throughout the world.
In his "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man" kingcraft was dealt the deadliest blows that it has yet received.
His pen had givenkingcraft a mortal hurt; priestcraft must be destroyed.
It was therefore a lesson in kingcraft that the prince was receiving from his father, but at the end of it the youth walked out along a corridor, murmuring: "The king is sore disturbed.
So he told the prince when they came together, but there was wisdom of kingcraft in the answer given.
Hang out the star-spangled banner, espouse popular rights; let the rest of mankind know you belong to a nation whose destiny is the overthrow of kings and kingcrafton one continent at least.
And then there was written in broad letters of fire across the shoulders of this sturdy devil--'Kingcraft and Churchcraft have cursed the nations of the earth, and turned to blight the blessings of the True God!
What a spectacle was this for the representatives of European kingcraft at our seat of government!
Democracy is not now a menace to kingcraft across the Atlantic.
The negro vote, under the easy control of a sectional faction of political manipulators, is as dangerous a menace to our institutions as our foreign population indoctrinated with European medievalism--kingcraft and priestcraft.
Let the dead past, consecrated by the blood of its martyrs, not by its savage hatreds, darkened alike by kingcraft and priestcraft--let the dead past bury its dead.
To redeem the earth from kingcraft and oppression--this is our mission!
And because of this wisdom, virtue and kindness served to weaken Kingcraft and made it a subject of strife, while tyranny, madness and malice strengthened it.
As for the French governors behind the scenes, who pulled the strings that let loose the helldogs of Indian war, they were but obeying the kingcraft of a royal master, who would use Indian warfare to add to his domain.
The story of that past has been told many times and in many volumes, with far digressions on Louisiana and New England and the kingcraft of Europe.
Kingcraft teaches a man patience, Jockie Ramshackle; but you'll need an awful quantity of drilling.
The many unnatural distinctions which Kingcraft and Priestcraft have brought into society, have totally undermined the first object of the social state.
It is evident that Men of Science have hitherto too much crouched to the established tyrannies of Kingcraft and Priestcraft.
We wish to emphasize, again, that Bismarck's conception of kingcraft was no mere despotic thing.
However much the kings had feared the wars of Napoleon, kingcraft was now confronted by an enemy more deadly.
Kingcraft comes upon evil days--in the rising tide of liberal ideas, monarchies of old are all but swept away.
The recoil of the mighty wave against kingcraft might even end by forcing abdication for the Prussian monarch.
Well, what horse would win, if Kingcraft came in second instead of first?
His one prayerful thought shaped in silence by his lips was, "I pray with all my soul that Kingcraft may win the City and Suburban.
The papers said that Kingcraft was in blooming health; that the stable believed in him; that a fine jockey was to ride him to probable victory; and that the public were backing him.
Now if Kingcraftpull off the City and Suburban---- Well, Con Staveley can give the odds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kingcraft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
