The success of the invasions of the Danes in England in the tenth century, and the reigns of three kings of the Danish line, had obliged the princes of Saxon race to take refuge in Normandy, the duke of which, Richard I.
This party, during the two preceding reigns being chiefly composed of the dregs of the people, were regarded as of little consequence, and treated with supercilious contempt by the administration.
At the close of a long interview Jefferson tells him that "The secresy with which the Senate covers its deliberations serves to veil personal interest, which reigns therein in all its strength.
A second brigand arrives who finds it equitable to take away by force what was conquered by violence: he dispossesses the first; he chains him, kills him, reigns in his place.
And though I am weak in body, yet the power of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly spirits.
So many of these Baptists and Monarchy-people turned the greatest enemies to the followers of Christ; but He reigns in the hearts of His saints over all their envy.
Later, when Friends were visiting him, he said: "All is well; the Seed of God reigns over all and over death itself.
In the dreary reigns of William, Anne, and the two first Georges, the pride and courage of the disarmed and disinherited population abiding at home, drew new life and vigour from the exploits of their exiled brethren.
The Irish Soldiers Abroad, during the Reigns of William and Anne BOOK XI.
During the reignsof William the Lion, Alexander II.
This feeling was even stronger in England during the reigns of Edward III.
This was the tone of the highest ecclesiastics in England towards the ruler of Ireland, in the reigns of William I.
By common consent of friend and foe, he was considered the ablest civil and military leader that had appeared in Ireland during the reigns of the Stuart kings.
During the half century which comprised the reignsof Edward I.
Now the echoes have gone to rest, and a palpable hush reigns over the assembly.
He lived under the reigns of enlightened Kings of Northumbria, whose culture was due to the impetus given to progress by Edwin and his paladins.
Under Robespierre the Revolution ruled; under Bonaparte, cannon; while in the reigns of Louis XVIII.
In such reigns nothing veils the shame; and the producers of examples, Tacitus like Juvenal, buffet more usefully in the presence of this human race this ignominy, which has no reply to make.
The interest of Henry's reign now shifts round to another point--the question of the relations between State and Church, which we have already seen cropping up in the reigns of Rufus and Henry I.
Given under our Signet at Saint Andrews, the tenth of December [September], and of our Reigns the first and twentie three years, 1565.
He was much employed (says Sir Walter Scott) in foreign negotiations, during the Reigns of Henry VIII.
Love, that passion which reigns without a rival in your breast, forbad the compliance.
And when Uzziah died, when the earthly king passed away, the eternal King was revealed; as when by the passing of an earth-born cloud the moon reigns radiant in the open sky.
And yet, while peace reigns within, there may be tribulation without!
The fair things are crowded out, and the weed reigns everywhere.
Some devil reigns in Sicily, who has put this stain upon me.
But virtue is no medicine for mortality, so Robert the Good is dead and buried these six weeks, and Robert the Bad reigns in his stead, and again I drink to his happy damnation.
We shall see that in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in Gower's Vox Clamantis are portrayed the political ferments and theological controversies of the reigns of Edward III.
Men of rank conspired against each other; the moral license of former reigns seems to have been forgotten in political intrigue.
England), and A History of England during the reigns of Edward VI.
Such a statement of works, arranged according to periods, or reigns of English monarchs, is valuable only as an abridged dictionary of names and dates.
The first volume, containing the reignsof James I.
They are very valuable historically, as they give us the truth with regard to men whose reigns were brilliant and on the whole prosperous, but who themselves, with the exception of the third of the name, were as bad men as ever wore crowns.
Terror reigns now in your towns, idleness and misery in your fields, and discord and disorder are to be found in all parts of the country.
A perennial spring-time, like that which reigns in the happy fields of Elysium, clothes with lovable youth the beautiful body, and shines with sweetness over the noble structure of the limbs.
We also have recognized that admirable phenomenon which is called sentiment; we even believe that here will be found a more precise and more complete analysis of it than in the writings where sentiment reigns alone.
The pastoral lyric of the next two reigns is far too wide a subject to be entered upon here.
The Oriental historians only become an abundant source of information at the epoch of the reigns of Noureddin and Saladin.
In states in their decay it is not uncommon for wealth to be mistaken for power, and the prince believes he reigns over all hearts as long as he possesses the means of corrupting them.
We are in possession of the second part of a History of Jerusalem, the anonymous author of which speaks of the reigns of the two first Baldwins.
It is true that it was in the reigns of Nouradin and Saladin that regular posts, served by pigeons, were organized in Egypt; but this means of communication was very ancient in the East.
For where joy reigns on every side, to hunt for it arduously, or amidst pomp and circumstances, is to lose it.
Only in a country where the spirit of separation reigns supreme, and innumerable petty barriers divide one from another, need this longing to realise the larger life of the world in one's own remain unsatisfied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reigns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
