Tis ill to jest withKings by day and seek a boon by night; And that thou bearest in thy hand is all too sharp to write.
The Emperor, who was convinced that the influence of women had harmed the kings of France, was irrevocably resolved that they should never be more than an ornament to his Court, and he kept his resolution.
The speeches of the new kings or princes, in which they treated their subjects to a pompous panegyric of the great man whose envoys they were, were published for our edification.
After all, the attention that nations pay to the words ofkings is not so foolish as it may appear.
Many people believed his story: kingseasily find credulous ears.
Princes and Kingswere to dine with the Emperor only when invited.
The kings who were afraid of our artillery submitted to the prohibitive system which we exacted of them, but their people suffered.
The magnanimity of kings consists in elevating those around them by pouring out upon them a portion of their own moral greatness; but Bonaparte, who was naturally jealous always isolated himself, and dreaded anything like sharing.
The weakness of those kings who place themselves at the mercy of the shopkeepers of Europe was deplored.
Kings are in the habit of displaying their displeasure before everybody, and it is unbearable to receive a complaint or a rebuff in the presence of a number of people who look on it as if they were at a play.
The vaults which had contained the ashes of our kings were then in course of reconstruction.
The present race must confess their virtues, and ages to come must crown their monuments, and place them above heroes and kings in glory everlasting.
In 1878, two years after his second term had ended, he went on a trip around the world, visiting all the great courts and kingsof the leading nations.
She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equaled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valor.
Prussia's kings did not chase cosmopolitan mirages, but realized that the welfare of their land could only be assured by means of a real power protecting industry and commerce.
In his address to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and me, he pointed out that nearly all the German Emperors, as well as the Lombard Kings before them, had paid visits to Monte Cassino.
It was as if he could bear the idea of leaving his mountains and valleys and their riches to any other race than the one which had broken the empire of its ancient kings and destroyed the temples of the Aztec gods.
To each the romantic legend of the hidden treasures of the Aztec kings had been mentioned confidentially.
The Aztec kings had but exhibited commonplace prudence in choosing for it so secure a hiding.
We hoped that kings had wiser grown Since Charles I.
Den I say--"Dat's von very hard case; Can tree jacks beat four kings und some ace?
There above How many now hold themselves mighty kings Who here like swine shall wallow in the mire, Leaving behind them horrible dispraise!
Amphiaraus, one of the seven kingswho besieged Thebes.
Mummies remarkably well preserved have been found among the Flat Heads, Dakotas and Chinooks; and the Florida and Virginia Indians preserved the bodies of their Kings in the same way.
The kings and the grandees were besides placed in a case or coffin of a single piece, and hollowed out of the trunk of a juniper tree, the wood of which was held as incorruptible.
Kings have had their hand in all the four; and therefore I recommend them to our king.
Such as have not been content to oppose a king in an evil course, (as they might lawfully do) but contrary to covenant vows and many declarations, have cast off kings and kingly government.
Kings are anointed of the Lord, because, by the ordinance of the Lord, their authority is sacred and inviolable.
The anointing of kings was not absolutely necessary under the Old Testament, for we read not that all the kings of Judah and Israel were anointed.
Kiss the Son lest He be angry, and learn to serve Him with fear who is terrible to the kings of the earth.
It is rare to find kings lovers of faithful ministers and pious people.
The Hebrews observe that anointing of kings was used in three cases.
That ye may take up this mountain the better, I find that kings are called mountains in Scripture; and good kings are so called, for these three, 1.
The very end that God hath in giving us kings maketh this clear.
Evil kingsare branded with this, that they contemned the prophets.
Royal roads are the ways that kings travel, and kings are mostly dull fellows, and rarely have a good time.
The poor man under his thatched roof is subject to the laws of death, nor can the guard on watch at the gates of the Louvre protect our kings against it.
There were two bedrooms in the flat in the New Kings Road.
And shall the King of kings such treason see Acted against Him, and the traitors be Acquitted?
With reference to the two books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles, see 1 Chron.
The children of Israel, at the end of a hundred and fifty years, find themselves cruelly oppressed by the most powerful of the Kings of the conquered but not extirpated race.
The Books of Samuel and of Kingscannot be claimed as the work of Inspiration, of course.
Thus, as the pestilence of the Book of Kingsbecomes in Chronicles the more visible angel, so the avenger who slew the firstborn may have been the Bedouin host, (!
The Prince of Orange, now recognized as King William of England, came in person to Ireland, and the two kings confronted each other at the battle of the Boyne.
It has been justly called in olden English The Royalle Game; for not only is a king its hero, but it has afforded amusement to kings and warriors through many a past age, and in countries widely distant from each other.
It withdraws the secular order from its rightful subjection to the spiritual order, and denies that religion is the supreme law for nations as well as for individuals, and for kings as well as for subjects.
It knew not yet that right divine of kings as it was understood under Louis XIV.
He had three princes of first class to deal with--the Emperor Ferdinand, and thekings of France and Spain.
True," responded the duchess; "but it is because queens follow the counsel of men, and kings the counsel of women.
The kings of the middle ages did indeed wish to make the church serve their own ends, but they, at least, were in their turn faithful to her.
His mother was heiress of the illustrious house of Brienne, emperors of Constantinople, kings of Jerusalem and dukes of Athens, &c.
Also those noble princes, and our very dear cousins, thekings of Castille and of Scotland, with all the other allies of our foresaid lord.
Truces were at this time concluded between the kings of France and England, for one year only, and were proclaimed at the accustomed places.
When Heaven with equal eyes our quick'ning dust Shall view, and judge the bad and praise the just, His humble merits may perhaps find room Where kings shall wish, but wish in vain to come.
The bodies of the kings and queens lie in tombs of marble, in niches, one above the other.
From hence you go through a long passage to the hall of ambassadors, which is magnificently decorated with innumerable varieties of mosaics, and the mottos of all the kings of Grenada.
Peacocks' crests, in ancient times, were among the ornaments of the kings of England.
The only kings wanting are Edmund Ironside, Richard I.
The lama is not only adored by the inhabitants of the country, but also by the kings of Tartary, who send him rich presents, and go in pilgrimage to pay him adoration, calling him lama congiu, i.
Not kings alone, Each villager has his ambition too; No sultan prouder than his fetter'd slave.
St. Jerome relates, on the testimony of a monk who dwelt at Jerusalem, that in his time, Babylon and its ancient precincts were converted into a great park, in which the kings of Persia were accustomed to hunt.
The following is the account given of the mountain called Pichincha, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, two mathematicians, sent by the kings of France and Spain, to make observations in relation to the figure of the earth.
This circumstance, unaccustomed as kings may well be supposed to be to rigorous philosophic observation, did not escape the notice of George the Fourth.
Kings reign the more happily and the more secure, the more freely and frequently that they show themselves to their subjects.
In close juxtaposition with these was a genuine Glhuine dhu, plaided, plumed, and whiskered, and looking as if all the kings of the earth were nothing to that swaggering chieftain, of whose tail he formed no inconsiderable portion.
Why tell me of the sapphires That Kings and Khalifs prize?
Kings have been their nursing fathers, and queens have been their nursing mothers, but not for this.
The kings and heroes whose fortunes it narrated were not the ancestors of the French race; they had no root in its affections, no connection with its religious beliefs, no relation to its ethical conceptions.
When private men shall act with original views, the luster will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
Thus, it is a point of pride with kings to remember faces and names.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
