But, in this yielding up of a nobleman to the vengeance of the priesthood, Henry had a double motive: he terrified the proudest of the barons, and attached to himself the other bodies in the State.
Yet they sat almost simultaneously on two of earth's proudest thrones.
His proudestboasts were of his triumphs in the amphitheatre, and of his ability to kill a hundred lions with as many arrows.
With him was ushered in the contest which lasted for more than a century, and brought to the surface some of the proudest names of Roman history.
The proudest recollection which Negro officers and privates will carry through life is that of the whole-hearted recognition given them in the matter of decorations by the French army authorities.
One hundred strong, and the proudest band of blowers and pounders that ever reeled off marching melody--Lieut.
Should he deny it to the Negro; his proudest and most vaunted principle would prove to be a doddering lie; a shimmering evanescence.
Sure it hurt me; he said, 'but I wasn't going to peg along on the proudest day of my life!
Upon this beach had once stood an immense commercial city, the proudest in all Spain.
These bays and firths are invariably of an immense depth, and sufficiently capacious to shelter the navies of the proudest maritime nations.
The 'prentice of a London citizen may have just as much honest pride and independence as the proudest earl at Westminster; but carry not independence too far.
The proudest and most imperial which has yet existed, that great Roman empire of which Christ was a subject, and in the bosom of which His greater kingdom arose, how small a portion of the earth's surface did it cover!
He then proceeded to get the vessel under weigh, with more noise and fuss than is to be heard when the proudest three-decker in the English navy expands her lofty canvas to the gale.
He became almost divine: the proudest and most ancient gentry of the land did menial service for him.
Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and who was cast lower than the poorest: dead, whom millions prayed for in vain.
It is but to a silly harlot that some of the noblest gentlemen, and some of the proudest women in the world, are bowing down; it is the price of a miserable province that the king ties in diamonds round his mistress’s white neck.
Even the medical ladies began to look upon her as a possible person, and the proudest one among them, an F.
And yet the Catholic church was once the proudest institution in the world, and had quite its own way with men's souls.
One glance from thee at once brings down The proudest brow that wears a crown.
Full in front Turk Mountain rises with the proudest outline, in that abrupt magnificence which fills up the whole space before one, and closes the scene.
Alfieri, one of the proudest of aristocrats, could hardly restrain his delight, and gazed with amazement upon the intrepid young man.
Why didn't he say that this was theproudest day of his life?
Proudest of all the engineering triumphs, the prize must be accorded to the lakelet which glitters in the lower grounds.
And since thou hast touched ambition on the side Of nobleness, and stirred my proudest hope, And wilt fulfil this, shall I count the cost?
And even a skirmish won by men struggling for liberty on their own shores is more honoured than the proudest battle in which the conquerors are actuated by the desire of vengeance or the lust of enterprise.
And history dedicates her proudest pages to one of whom she has nothing but the epitaph to relate.
What was imputed to him as a reproach became his proudest distinction, viz.
One of the proudest achievements of St. Thomas and the schoolmen was the construction of an elaborate analogical conception of the Trinity.
To so good purpose did he advance in this work of loosening the tongue and sharpening the wit, that throughout his life the proudest orators and thinkers of Christendom shrank in dismay from the thought of a verbal encounter with him.
Nay, more, and it is my last and proudest offer, we will send three thousand of our youth to assist your Highness in any war which you may engage in, whether against Louis of France or the Emperor of Germany.
Thou hast--thou hast my blessing, my suffering dove," said the simple King to the proudest and most impatient princess that ever wept for a lost crown.
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