The dread of such a succession was natural, in days when feudal turbulence was held in check only by the reigning king, and when even this could be accomplished only by a king of determined force.
Among the Catholic families of Queen Anne's day, who formed a little society of their own, Miss Arabella Fermor was a reigning belle.
Pope's day for a reigning beauty whose health was regularly drunk by her admirers.
The very next morning I was seen at prayers, seated in the pew of the reigning belle.
What, thought I, if this be the chamber about which mine host spoke as having a mysteryreigning over it?
They will pardon me, if by laying before you a particular instance I was lately witness to of their improper behaviour, I endeavour to expose a reigning evil, which subjects them to many shameful imputations.
It may even be suspected that anecdotes in praise of Peisistratus and Hipparchus were a delicate form of flattery addressed to the reigning Ptolemy.
Thucydides notices as a popular mistake the belief that Hipparchus was the eldest son of Peisistratus, and that consequently he was the reigning "tyrant" when he was killed by Aristogiton.
Her rage, and the annihilation of her hopes of reigning with him, turned her blood.
She always flattered herself with the hope of reigning together with the Duc du Maine.
He fitted out privateers, engaged seamen, issued letters of marque and reprisal, administered to American citizens oaths of "allegiance" to the authority then reigning in Paris.
He possessed in the centre of the court a support in the dowager queen Amestris, and the reigning queen Amytis; (both notorious for their excesses;) who kept Artaxerxes I.
While Belinus was thus reigning in peace and tranquillity, his brother Brennius, who (as we said before) was driven upon the coasts of Gaul, suffered great torments of mind.
Guithelin, reigning after Gurgiunt Brabtruc, the Martian law is instituted by Martia, a noble woman.
Monarchs, it is said, are enabled to rule extensive territories, because they send viceroys to govern certain districts; and thus the reigning authority is transmitted over the whole empire.
I am sorry to hear you give this as your opinion; for just at this moment, I would rather think that I have no cause of complaint, in this way, against the reigning family, or its ministers.
They think it a more delicate service, perhaps, for a gentleman to be true to the reigning house, when so loud an appeal is made to his natural loyalty; and therefore class the self-conquest with a victory at sea!
Nevertheless, I recollect it all depended on an act of Parliament, which is supreme; and the house of Hanover reigning by an act of Parliament, no court could set aside the claim.
Just at that moment, too, it would have needed a general order, at least, to induce him to drink any of the family of the reigning house.
My life on it, neither the reigning monarch, nor his confidential servants, are such arrant dunces, as to be guilty of so much weakness.
The characteristic traits of thesereigning queens of the demi-monde were in almost all cases the same.
Also the parties often swore an oath to observe their contract by the name of one or more gods and of the reigning king.
Whoever has the misfortune to live without religion, or not to be devoted to the reigning family, ought to be sensible of what he lacks in becoming a worthy instructor of youth.
The promise of the poet here to make the fame of Asshur known to later generations corresponds to the promise of the author of Psalm 45 for the fame of the reigning Hebrew king.
Not only will Yahwe reign forever, but Yahwe has been reigning from the beginning: Established is thy throne of old.
That one stanza sums up the two or three preceding--and is perfectly attuned to the reigning mood, temper, or pathos.
A long line of sovereigns succeeded him, known in history as the dynasty of the Ptolemies--Greek princes, reigning over an Egyptian realm.
Besides the reigning emperor, Julian alone survived, of all the numerous posterity of Constantius Chlorus.
When it was opposite to the throne of the reigning emperor, he rose from his seat, and with grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor.
But these artificial supplies (in which the reigning house was always included) were rapidly swept away by the rage of tyrants, by frequent revolutions, by the change of manners, and by the intermixture of nations.
The reigning emperor, though he had usurped the sceptre by treason and murder, immediately assumed the sacred character of vicegerent of the Deity.
The silken veil, which hung down from the beam, was curiously inwrought with the images of the reigning monarch and his children.
The reigning sovereign is Seyid Mahomed Rahim Khan who succeeded his father in 1865.
It was the birthplace of the Tsar Michael Theodorovitch, founder of the now reigning family, and also of his father Theodore Nikitisch, who became patriarch under the name of Philaret.
Here likewise is the imperial gallery of portraits of all the sovereigns of the reigning Russian house.
The Comte Juve was a Canadian explorer who, after a trip through Africa, was coming to spend some time at Glotzbourg and was anxious to meet the reigning family.
The suppressed hatred of the reigning dynasty for the younger branch was of ancient date and a matter of common knowledge.
No one knows if the reigning beauty is Havanese or a French Creole.
All follow the train of the modern reigning star of the West, Venus.
Marie Brard's case is one of the reigning sensations.
On rare visits to the residence of his friend, Valois' quick eye notes the evidence of a reigning divinity.
Now a fortune, title, and the oblivion of years will aid her in reigning as a mature queen.
The fact that Paul enjoins obedience under a despotic government, is a valid argument to prove, not that he sanctioned the conduct of the reigning Roman emperor, but that he did not consider the possession of despotic power a crime.
When the famine drove Abraham to Egypt, he received the highest honors of the reigning sovereign.
