Different kingdoms flourished here and there, such as that of the Mitanni in Mesopotamia, the Hittites at Boghaz Koi, the kingdoms of Carchemish, of Hamath, and Tyana.
At what period this union of the nomes into two kingdoms occurred, we can only conjecture.
After that Saba became apparently unimportant, but various Semitic kingdoms succeeded one another in Africa, including the present-day Abyssinian kingdom.
In that year his army met the forces of the confederated kingdoms at Elteke in the valley of Aijalon and overcame them.
These inscriptions show that there were in that region two petty kingdoms named, respectively, Samal and Yadi.
The principal states were the city kingdoms of Gebal, Beirut, Tyre, Jerusalem, and the Amorites.
The way in which these petty kingdomsdeal with one another is quite after the manner of the international relations reflected in the book of Judges.
The earliest of these kingdoms which we can trace is that of the Mitanni.
Doubtless as time goes on we shall learn of the existence of many other small Hittite kingdoms which flourished at one time or another.
The inscriptions, however, show that two important kingdoms existed there, Saba and Main.
The history of these kingdoms is given in outline in the Bible and is probably familiar to every reader of this book.
At all events, the two kingdomsexisted separately for so long a time that their memory was ever afterward preserved.
In these tropical regions the conditions of nature are so various that all the forms of the animal and vegetable kingdoms must radically differ from what we are used to in Europe.
The kingdoms of Mathura and Kerala would certainly have been mentioned if they had been in existence.
He had many sons, among whom India was equally divided, and these had bequeathed their dominions to many descendants, from generation to generation; some of these kingdoms existed even when Alexander came to India.
All the Kingdoms of Christendom, according to their several interests and inclinations, were divided between these two pontiffs.
This practice, however, seems to have been more familiar in Scotland and the kingdoms on the continent, than in England.
The parliament thought proper to obviate the consequences of this measure, and to declare that they owed him no obedience as king of France, and that the two kingdoms must forever remain distinct and independent.
For the limits of the several kingdoms of the Heptarchy, see Chap.
Harold dying in England, Hardecanute held both kingdoms for a short time.
The barbarians had no idea of resistance, but without delay coming to a place called Dacor, they surrendered themselves and their kingdoms to the sovereign of England.
My former volume terminated where the four kingdomsof Britain were consolidated into one.
This I shall do more clearly, if I place the kingdoms of the East Angles, and of the East Saxons, after the others, as little meriting either my labours, or the regard of posterity.
The union of the kingdoms under Egbert did not take place for several years after his accession in 802.
In Florence of Worcester the union of the kingdoms under Edward the Elder is assigned to the year 918.
The Lord himself opens the kingdoms of the heavens to eunuchs.
For the high appreciation of its taste see also Marco Polo, Book concerning the Kingdomsand Marvels of the East, ii.
Emancipated slaves have repeatedly risen to the highest offices, they have ruled kingdoms and founded dynasties.
According to Chinese beliefs, whole kingdoms are punished for the conduct of their rulers by spirits who act as avengers with orders or approval from the Tao, or Heaven.
Polo (Marco), The Book of, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East.
The Chinese believe that {97} whole kingdoms are blessed by benevolent spirits for the virtuous conduct of their rulers.
I am thankful that we have few clergymen in America who manifest a spirit akin to that which to this day deprives half the children of these Kingdoms of any considerable school education whatever.
If the question could now be put to a direct vote, even of the tax-payers alone--"Shall or shall not a system of Common School Education for the United Kingdoms be maintained by a National Tax?
The extinction of the dualkingdoms in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the creation of a military and naval power equal in might to Germany itself, were all parts of the ambitious design of this man.
That he may have expected; but the conduct of the smaller kingdoms filled him with surprise and resentment.
This election greatly alarmed Russia, as it allied Poland and Sweden by the most intimate ties, and might eventually place the crown of both of those powerful kingdoms upon the same brow.
He applied to Sweden and to Denmark to help him, but both kingdoms refused.
Thus the three kingdoms of Poland, Sweden and Denmark, and the Duchy of Finland were strongly allied by matrimonial ties, and were ready to combine against the Russian emperor.
He united, though by treachery and blood, the northern and southern kingdoms under one monarch.
No doubt many will be tried, but we shall see the kingdom of God established and all the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and His Christ.
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
Then the devil took him up to a high place, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
By means of this last type of work, the researches of the antiquary have to a wonderful degree both purified and extended the history of this and of the other kingdoms of Europe.
Britain stands too low in his metrological testing of the European kingdoms and races, its "low entry is due to accepting the yard for the country's popular measure of length.
Cape Bona Speranza, the Redd Sea, Bantam in Java major, the Molucas, and soe to the eastwardes of the Phillipinas into these kingdoms of Japon, wheare now I have remeaned allmost the space of vij yeares.
The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.
I commanded Josue also at that time, saying: Thy eyes have seen what the Lord your God hath done to these two kings: so will he do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt pass.
Attempts to define the two kingdomsstrictly have always come to naught.
These two opposite tendencies are so plainly directive of the two evolutions that the two kingdoms might almost be defined by them.
Naturally, therefore, biologists enamored of clean-cut concepts have regarded the distinction between the two kingdoms as artificial.
Is the divergent development of the two kingdoms related to what one may call the oblivion of each kingdom as regards one of the two halves of the programme?
King JOHN, oppressed with guilt and despair, resigned the kingdoms of England and Ireland to the pope, to be held of him and of the Roman church in fee, by the annual rent of 1,000 marks.
Treaty of Troyes, by which Henry V of England was to marry Kate, daughter of Charles VII of France, and the two kingdoms to be united under Henry on the death of Charles.
He nam'd several Kingdoms and Republics to us, that lie about the two Poles, which we had never heard the mention of.
Their civilisation was one of "city-states", not of kingdoms and empires; and their whole political outlook was necessarily determined by this condition.
Princess, who had read quite enough history to know that kingdoms are always disenchanted sooner or later.
Bold, giving her Anjou and Maine for dowry, in exchange for the kingdoms of Aragon and Valentia and the countship of Barcelona given up by Charles.
His treatment of Octavia, her brother's desire to get rid of him, and the manner in which he disposed of kingdoms and provinces in favour of Cleopatra alienated his supporters.
Roman empire shall be divided into several kingdoms, partly strong and partly weak: a prophecy remarkably fulfilled in the history and condition of the kingdoms of Europe.
If he gets it, seeing the greatness of the kingdoms and lordships he possesses, he might, in time, do me inestimable harm.
You are aware of the great evils and disasters which my absence from these kingdoms once caused, owing to my not having been able to make such provision as was needed for the government of this country.
The future ruler of so many vast kingdoms was never a good linguist.
European sovereign since Charlemagne had possessed, each of his ancestors having acquired kingdoms or provinces towards which their prospect of succession was extremely remote.
The kingdoms already bound to us by the joint acts of ourself and the late royal Odenatus, we found discordant and at war.
Other kingdoms as great, or almost as great, I know you will say, have fallen, and Rome must in its turn.
Rome has by former acts of unparalleled barbarism covered her name with reproach, but by none has she so drenched it in guilt as by this wanton annihilation--for so do I regard it--of one of the fairest cities and kingdoms of the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kingdoms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
