The Mogul Emperors, though Muhammadans, were then in the habit of taking their wives from among the Râjpût princes of the country, with a view to secure their allegiance.
The reigning emperors tried to secure their fidelity by assigning to them posts of honour about their court that required their personal attendance in all their pomp of pride; and by taking from each a daughter in marriage.
The prospect of booty which the region presented, stimulated the Spaniards to secure their prize at any hazard.
In desiring property, they only mean to secure their subsistence; but the brave who lead in war, have likewise the largest share in its spoils.
To enjoy their magnificence, they must live in a crowd; and to secure their possessions, they must be surrounded with friends that espouse their quarrels.
And thinking that a convenient opportunity had now come, they got together their own forces, and, quitting the Carthaginian camp under cover of night, occupied a position sufficiently strong to secure their safety.
And on hearing them, certain of the men of the country attempted to secure their acceptance; among whom was Stratius, now a very old man, who clung to Diaeus’s knees and entreated him to yield to the offers of Metellus.
There were no people in the world that he would trust his property or life with sooner than negroes, provided he had the previous management of them long enough to secure their confidence.
He was generally suspected of coquetting with them to secure their patronage of the Young Ireland cause, and that at heart he despised the popular subserviency to them.
Aldermen Plumbe and Kirkman, were opposed by the government party to Wilkes and Alderman Bull, and every thing was done to secure their election.
With such watchful attention to constitutional forms of procedure, did the people of Aragon endeavor to secure their liberties; forms, which continued to be observed in later times, long after those liberties had been swept away.
They were accused, with far more probability, of entering into a secret correspondence with their brethren on the opposite shore, in order tosecure their support in the meditated revolt.
It allowed the nobles to take an increasing part in the government, so as to secure their hearty co-operation in achieving the aim it had in view.
This was undeniably a triumph for the patricians, to whom the working people had bent for the nonce, in order to secure their co-operation in the difficult task of reducing the contado to submission.
And they were compelled to give 150 hostages to secure their observance of these conditions and of the friendship to which they were sworn.
It seems to be supposed that the officers were engaged to serve to the end of the war, just long enough to secure their commutation.
Thus it happened that Velasquez, the Spanish Governor of Cuba, designed to send a fleet to explore the mainland, to gain what treasure he could by peaceful barter with the natives, and by any means he could to secure their conversion.
Endeavours were made to secure their devotion, and on October 1, a banquet was given to them by the king's guards.
The mad prattling of the latter caused the apprehension of his companions, while the evidence of the former tended materially to secure their conviction.
They were detected before they could secure their booty; and the widower, however unpleasant, determined to prosecute them.
There was an earnest desire, for reasons of state, to secure their conversion, and special concessions were made to them with little result.
Confession of formal heresy was not so leniently treated and, as it inferred accomplices, every effort was made to secure their denunciation.
However, he manifested some desire to secure their good-will by confirming a number of their minor privileges, their right to acquire titles of nobility, etc.
These are vain and chimerical, they are not specified" because none of them reside there, and, if they are paid, it is to secure their support at the court.
They are active, and truly generous; a worthy cause suffices to secure their devotion.
In the bailiwick of Domfront, "the inhabitants of more than ten parishes are obliged to watch all night for more than six months of the year to secure their crops.
One by one, reformative ideas penetrate to his office of consulting advocate; conversation has sufficed to propagate them, homely common sense needing no philosophy to secure their recognition.
Yet, with this reservation, the parliament had gone far in their concessions, and it remained for them to secure their equivalent.
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