When Oceanus ruled these waves the seas were wild and no ship dared sail.
Face and form hideous to behold he ruled the nether world.
Freda ruled down in the town; but the men she ruledwere the same who functioned socially at the Barracks or were fed tea and canned preserves at the hand of Mrs. Eppingwell in her hillside cabin of rough-hewn logs.
The powers whichruled the day-light and the dark, the flood and the frost, the bursting of the bud and the withering of the leaf, were angry and in need of propitiation.
The formulae of Domesday are the most speaking witness to the spirit of outward legality which ruled every act of William.
As duke and king, as prior, abbot, and archbishop, William and Lanfranc ruled side by side, each helping the work of the other till the end of their joint lives.
Was the rule either of Maine or of England to be handed over in this way, like a mere property, without the people who were to be ruledspeaking their minds on the matter?
But the circumstances of his conquest of Northern England ruled that for several centuries the unity of England should take the form of a distinct preponderance of Southern England over Northern.
As it was, there was nothing to do but to choose the man who, though not of kingly blood, had ruled England well for thirteen years.
But they show at least that the prince who ruled on both sides of the sea was largely in men's thoughts.
They fought, they made laws, they ruled empires, they fancied themselves only a little less than the gods, and now not a man outside the circle of a dozen scholars knows or cares anything about them.
The woman who ruled in that strong city was an imposing figure in her time, but she died in a petty Roman villa as an exile, and Palmyra, after her departure, soon perished from off the face of the earth.
He was one of the men who ruled great England, and now he is away in the dark, and his books rot in the recesses of dusty libraries.
He had been out riding with his son William, who afterwards ruled England, becoming Prime Minister at an age when other lads are leaving the University.
Cartes-de-visite, the many, ruled over mammoth, the few.
If he would have been ruled by me-- Blanche, child, hast any other edge of pearl?
Be ruled by me, I pray you, and leave your fantastical objections, and go seek Don John.
Electra didn't care a whoop for the old fogies who had lived andruled in England generations before she was born.
Yea, he left us A little while ago, Of his laughter quite bereft us And his limbs of snow; We know not why he went away Who ruled our revels yesterday.
Herzog was boldly placing his foot on the summit whereon the five or six demigods, who ruled the stock market, were firmly placed.
She ruled the prices in the market; and great bankers came to her office and did business with her on a footing of equality.
Jenghiz Khan ruled over more than half the human race, and even in many of the countries which he pillaged and destroyed his memory is feared even to this day.
During the twenty-two centuries before the birth of Christ three imperial families ruled in China in succession.
In the seventeenth century the Manchu emperor, Kang Hi, ruled China for sixty-one years with a power and wisdom which made him one of the greatest monarchs of any age.
Sixty years ago there ruled in Bukhara a cruel Emir who took a delight in torturing human beings.
Their actual contents and relations were evidently ruled by some other reason than the number of pence in a pound.
As this ruled the extent of their liability one for another, so it fixed both the nearness of the neighbourhood of their tyddyns, and the closeness of the relationships of their common life.
It was not an artificial bundling together of persons in tens or tithings, like the later Saxon and Norman system of frankpledge, but strictly ruled by actual family relationship.
Cattle rather than corn claimed the first consideration, and ruled their habits; and hence the Welsh land system, even in later times, was very different from that of the Saxons.
His mind reverted quickly to other times--his boyhood, and the home where once ruled a beloved mother, not less accomplished than Teochma.
The result of this was that Martha had been his wife for nearly eight years, and ruled him with a rod of iron, which she, however, sometimes covered, so that he did not feel it quite so much as he might otherwise have done.
That direction of all our desires and energies to the attainment of the kingdom which is the state of being ruled by the will of God, is to be accompanied with joyous, brave confidence.
Further, the saying of our Lord suggests His recognition of the great law that ruled His life.
Then note, too, the solemn law that ruled His life.
Tilly sat next the driver, and talked to them over her shoulder--a great big jolly rattle of a woman, who ruled her surroundings autocratically.
Athens had ruled Greece, and had been forced to yield to Sparta; but now Sparta was compelled in her turn to recognize the supremacy of Thebes.
Although the Thirty Tyrants ruledin Athens but a short time, they condemned fifteen hundred men to death, and drove many good citizens into exile.
He was not the only tyrant in those days, however; for the city of Syracuse in Sicily, which Alcibiades had hoped to conquer, was ruled by a man as harsh and mean as Alexander.
Several years now passed by, during which OEdipus ruled the Thebans so wisely, that they all loved him dearly, and went to him for advice in all their troubles.
As Pisistratus ruled just as he pleased, without consulting the Tribunal or people, he has been called a tyrant.
As soon as Dionysius heard that Dion was dead, he hastened back to Syracuse, where he ruled more cruelly than ever, and put so many people to death that the citizens rose up against him once more.
The leading members of the family of Hercules took the title of kings, and ruled over the cities of Argos, Mycenæ, and Spar´ta.
The Athenians did not long remain angry with their former favorite, however; for he did all he could to make them happy, and ruled them very wisely.
This promise was duly kept, and Xuthus the exile ruledover Athens.
They also brought home the king's daughter, who married Jason, and ruled his kingdom with him.
France was ruled by a great minister who loved her glory and his own.
She had ruled him like a queen in that matter, as in all others.
Gaps in these uplands revealed the blue sea, flecked with a few dashes of white and a solitary white sail, the whole brimming up to a keen horizon which lay like a line ruled from hillside to hillside.
Rome was in great turmoil and confusion at this time, and the vice of the men that ruled had weakened her power.
Rome had ruled the world for hundreds of years and the swords of her soldiers had been uplifted in every known land.
A strong religious impulse ruled the de Veuster family, and out of three children two were destined for a religious life.
She continued to ride until she had to be lifted to her horse, and she ruled with a firm hand long after her health had failed and she had grown ill and feeble.
The Netherlands which were ruled by the King of Spain, had been at war with France and William had been sent to the French court as a hostage while peace was being arranged.
On one occasion he was called away from home to give aid to the Emperor Frederick the Second in putting down a revolt in his dominions; and Elizabeth ruled over Thuringia until his return.
When Edward the First ruled over England he extended his power over the free land of Scotland, where the race and the speech were different from those of the English.
And it became more plain each day that France would be ruled by whichever king was the first to be crowned at Rheims.
The Bolshevists soon organized and drove Kerensky from power, and anarchy ruled throughout Russia.
It was a time, too, when a fiery passion for religion ruled the world.
But the great King as well as the realm that he ruled over have been lost forever in the mists of time.
And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these: 36:32.
Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.
Besides the overseers who were over every work, in number three thousand and three hundred, that ruled over the people, and them that did the work.
Duke Dison, duke Eser, duke Disan: these were dukes of the Horrites that ruled in the land of Seir.
Now, when she said that, it must have been near morning, when we were asleep in the village where they gave us milk to drink, and about the third watch of the night; but I cannot understand what planet ruled the hour.
The old tablets showed, too, that Venus ruled the hour before noon, which was a very convenient time for starting, because everyone would have bathed and eaten, and they could travel on till evening without difficulty.
It was Sunday night, and Saturn ruled from the second hour of the first watch to the end.
The strongest will that ever ruled France has passed away; and the poor, broken King has hunted his last badger at St. Germain, and meekly followed his master to the grave, as he had always followed him.
Besides, we are to distinguish between the German Empire and the house of Hapsburg that ruled from Vienna.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
