Elizabeth reigned at this time; her influence made England a harbor of safety for religious and other mental suspects.
For a thousand years nothing of importance was added to human knowledge, and mental confusion reigned supreme.
In Sweden reigned King Sigismund, Charles IX, the great monarch Gustavus Adolphus, and Queen Christine.
In a passage breathing the very spirit and prejudices of the middle ages, Mezeray states that during all the twelfth century, two very cruel evils (deux maux tres cruels) reigned in France, viz.
And with the most amiable smile, as if the best understanding reigned between himself and his father, Hans withdrew.
They moved through rooms and halls bright with lights and flowers; there was gay talk and laughter, and the cheerful, lively mood that seemed to breathe in the very atmosphere of the Reval household reigned everywhere.
He was ever in the thick of battle, and where his axe descended there death reigned in the foemen's ranks.
Then silence reigned again, save for the sound of the galloping horses and the rush of the wind about the horsemen.
The howl of a wild dog now and then fell on their ears as they performed their melancholy task, and alone broke the stillness that reigned around, as they retreated slowly along the beach.
An unwonted silencereigned throughout the house; all eyes were turned to the box where the princess sat between the two queens.
A breathless silence reigned throughout the vast crowd; every eye was fixed upon the stage; and now, with a stately step and a Roman toga falling in artistic folds from his shoulders, Eckhof as Cato stood before them.
He remained in this position for a long time, his sighs being the only interruption to the silence which reigned in the apartment.
The two monks stepped into the cloister, and a deep and unbroken silence reigned around, interrupted only by the sweet songs of the birds and the light movements of their wings.
Silence reigned in the saloon as Barbarina withdrew.
A breathless stillness reignedthroughout the assembly; every eye was fixed upon the curtain.
The might of genius reigned supreme, and subdued the calculating and the pitiful for a brief space.
Deep silence reigned in the encampment which the Prussians had established near the village of Sohr.
But both these changes arose from the same cause, the growth of religion in their hearts.
And as he set out on the principle of underselling, people took a mighty fancy to the cheap shop.
Silence also reigned in the little island diagonally opposite to the harbour.
The same cleanliness reigned inside, Barholm observed when he entered; and yet on the whole there was a stamp upon it which made it a place scarcely to be approved of.
For the man who wore these savage garments has reigned supreme in realms of romance, known only in their first beauty to boyhood's ecstatic belief.
Within this cabin, before a roaring log fire, while rain, snow and hail reigned without, were passed the closing days of 1863.
The silence of deathreigned over the place, except now and then when an owl would hoot in the woods that fringed the suburbs.
Perfect order and quiet reigned within the limits of the Defences of New Orleans.
More than anywhere else there reigned the distrust, so innate in the German people, of anything new, the sort of laziness in feeling anything true or powerful which has not been pondered and digested by several generations.
But soon Nature resumed her sway over the garden, and silence reigned over all.
Inside that deserted dwelling, tenanted only by the dead, reigned stillness, solemn and profound--the silence of death itself.
All opposition was thus silenced, and the father of Ayesha reigned for two years over the faithful.
This dynasty of Fatimite khalifs, as they were called, reigned during two centuries at Cairo, on the Nile, the foes and rivals of those who sat in Bagdad, on the banks of the Tigris.
He was descended from one of those generals who, upon the death of Alexander the Great, had shared the East between them, and he reigned over all the country from the Mediterranean Sea even into Persia and the borders of India.
It must have been strange to the courtier that his master did not send his lictors to carry the offending bishop to a dungeon, and give all his court favor to the heretics, like the last empress who had reigned at Milan.
Grimly as frowned the guns and warlike munitions, the neatness and order that reignedhad a pleasing effect on Tom's mind.
To her disappointment, however, she found that quite as good order, and rather more taste, reigned there than in her own pantry, but was relieved again a moment at finding an unwashed plate.
Since hell first existed, no such stillness had reigned in the dark, frightful kingdom, the abode of eternal misery.
The Devil instantly put his project into execution, and they found themselves standing sentinels in the interior of the castle, where reigned the mournful silence of the tomb.
He reignedseven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem (2 Samuel v.
There is no improbability, therefore, in the view that a Hittite dynasty may have reignedat Sardes.
He reigned about a century before Solomon; yet from that dim past his figure stands out strangely fresh and lifelike in the journal of an Egyptian merchant or official named Wen-Ammon, which has fortunately been preserved in a papyrus.
To his descendants, the Cinyrads, he appears to have bequeathed his wealth and his dignities; at all events, they reigned as kings of Paphos and served the goddess as priests.
It is not impossible that Hyacinth may have been a divine king who actually reigned in his lifetime at Amyclae and was afterwards worshipped at his tomb.
The sacred serpent which lived in the Erechtheum at Athens, and was fed with honey-cakes once a month, may have been supposed to house the soul of the dead king Erechtheus, who had reigned in his lifetime on the same spot.
At all events Adonis is said to have reignedin Cyprus,(155) and it appears to be certain that the title of Adonis was regularly borne by the sons of all the Phoenician kings of the island.
In Nubia there reignedprofound silence and repose, and in lower Egypt, although there is more activity and evidence of modern life, still it is quiet and tranquil.
The stupidity which still reigned over my intellectual faculties, and the helplessness of my will, and my sympathy with those classes led me to choose such a sphere of action as most suitable to my then condition.
To {505} appeal to "the judgment of God" was an expedient substitute for human evidence in a society where nothing was more difficult than to procure reliable witnesses, and where superstition reigned supreme.
For the ideas which now reigned in the Church pervaded the new education as they did the new monasticism.
Louis VII had nowreigned in France for more than forty years.
But in the mind of kings who reigned in a world more real than the romances of chivalry, this duty had always to contend with natural ambition and with their responsibility for the welfare of the lands they ruled.
The first two Norman kings had reigned over a Church which knew no other system than strict royal control.
Then reigned Aedorachus of Pantibiblon for the term of eighteen sari.
During a whole day darkness and chaos appear to have reigned on the earth.
At first, as in the other accounts, nothingness reigned supreme, then did the great gods create warriors with the bodies of birds, and men with the faces of ravens.
The last King of Assyria was probably Sin-sar-iskin, the Sarakos of the Greeks, who reigned for some years and who even tells us through the medium of inscriptions that he intended to restore the ruined temples of his land.
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