He told the prisoner that the parcel was his property, having just paid a sovereign for it; but the prisoner insisted on retaining it unless he consented to give him more money.
She left Liverpool, and having little money beyond the sovereign received from her husband, took her passage by one of Messrs.
He, accordingly, gave the man a sovereign and took up the parcel.
The prisoner at once assented to the proposition, and, taking a sovereign out of his fob, said, that he thought it better to give the farmer a guinea for his wife, and that she could then please herself as to the pattern.
Upon this he wrote a letter to his wife at Liverpool, inclosing her a sovereign to assist her upon her journey, that being all the money he could command, and requesting that she would immediately come to him in London.
The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.
He drew a sovereign from his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words.
But I'll have a sovereignon with you, just to teach you not to be obstinate.
One would fancy we were the guests of ourSovereign himself, and not of his representative," said the Burgomaster to the Superintendent of Police, as the two met.
Our most gracioussovereign has been pleased to pardon.
Even in those days the man who sought to rise in revolt against your will yielded in the end, cowed by thatsovereign mien.
All you have to do is to put a sovereign down on my table, and to find the pea, which I put under one of my thimbles.
Near the little village of Friga I tasted an agua agria, a natural sodawater, which the people hold to be of sovereign value for beast as well as man.
The same semi-mystical name is given to the sap by the Arab pharmists: in the Middle Ages this strong astringent resin was a sovereign cure for all complaints; now it is used chiefly for varnishes.
One of these, who called himself a writer for the press, and who waxed insultingly drunk, made our hours bitter; but the owner has a satisfactory and sovereignway of dealing with such brutes.
When the legitimate sovereign appeared to be firmly seated on the throne again in 1818, the Marquis asked himself what a man of seventy should do at court; and what duties, what office he could discharge there?
Then, in the name of the Sovereign People, the d'Esgrignon lands were dishonored by the District, and the woods sold by the Nation in spite of the personal protest made by the Marquis, then turned forty.
There are no soldiers, and the whole guard of the Sovereign consists of a single policeman, who walks about the grounds to keep off impertinent intruders and improper characters.
Ask them the name of their sovereign and they will laugh; who rules them on earth or who can save them in heaven are alike mysteries to them.
The Sovereign has three rights: "The right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
In 1844 King Louis Philippe paid his promised visit, of which the Queen said, "He is the first King of France who comes on a visit to the Sovereign of this country.
When he retired from office he was able to state with pride that he had seen his Sovereign every day during the past four years.
He wished the Sovereign to be in a position to rule as well as to reign, to be at one with the nation, above the quarrels and differences of the political parties, and to be their representative.
Then let ten thousand lyres be swept, Let paeans ring o'er sea and land-- The Almighty hath our Sovereign kept Within the hollow of His hand!
Lord Palmerston, the Queen complained, did not obey instructions, and she declared that before important dispatches were sent abroad the Sovereign should be consulted.
These are: Sovereignand Minister; Father and Son; Husband and Wife; Elder Brother and Younger Brother; and Friends.
It is coming to pass in Japan that even in government, the sovereign must consult with his people on all questions pertaining to their welfare.
The divine sovereign of Japan and his political church did exactly what the state churches of Europe, both pagan and Christian, have done before and since the Christian era.
Thou shalt revere the Emperor as thy sovereign and obey the will of his Court.
For sovereign and minister, there are coming into vogue new interpretations.
Have you any objection to earn a sovereign or two?
That's it; now here's a sovereign for you, my fine fellow, and many thanks.
An insistent feminine clamor arose, protesting the sovereign power of the law.
Oh, disabuse your mind of the fact that China is a sovereign state!
Lacroix thinks that this lady may be Jane de Hochberg, only daughter of Philip, sovereign Count of Neufchâtel.
When Gown returned, there was no small change, - the benefit was a sovereign one to Town.
Scarcely an intermediate rank was to be found in the nation between the sovereign and the peasant.
His genius is of the same stature and the same structure; he is one of the three sovereign minds of the Italian Renaissance.
Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between thesovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.
Where could the Holy See be better off than in the new capital of Christianity, under Napoleon, heir to Charlemagne, and temporal sovereign of the Sovereign Pontiff?
In his European structure as in his French structure this sovereign egoism has introduced a vice of construction.
After 1800, he pays to the State less than one-quarter, the one sovereign alone who replaces the other three.
I know not how to express to my Sovereign all my gratitude for the honour he does me.
You are offered a ransom for the kingdom in which you will hold the sovereign power; a nation of unbelievers demands baptism at your hands, and offers you hostages.
He accordingly returned to France, to acquaint his sovereign with his projects and the success of the expedition that inspired them.
From the blessed asylum of glory intense, Upon us thy sovereigninfluence dispense; And list to the praises our gratitude aims To offer up worthily, mighty Saint James!
When the Jews were banished from Spain by the Catholic sovereign in 1492, they were received into Portugal by the more liberal John II.
Where does he find in our canons sanction for his proceedings, his undutiful expressions towards one who is his sovereignby divine right, and who can do no wrong?
As for the Grand-duke Nicholas, no one thought of him, but the Russian people dreaded the accession of Constantine, whom they considered their sovereign in right of his primogeniture.
The public feeling was increased by the prospect of the reign of an unpopular sovereign afflicted with mental malady, and devoid of courtesy.
All she said in defence was, that she did possess a ball which was a sovereign remedy in the complaint.
Northern India by the great king Harshavardhana, who reigned first at Thanesar and then at Kanauj, and who was the third sovereign in a dynasty which traced its origin to a prince named Naravardhana.
A change of sovereign does not entail the forfeiture of the title "Royal Highness," once acquired, though the father of the bearer has become a nephew and not a grandson of the sovereign.
German confederation as a sovereign prince in 1817, and after his death his five sons in succession filled the throne.
Two years subsequently to this event, Dieppe ceased to form a part of the demesne of the Sovereign of the Duchy.
At the end of this period, Gaultier hoped that the anger of his sovereign might be appeased, and he accordingly went to Rome, and implored the aid of the Supreme Pontiff.
But magnificence in a sovereign generally means misery in his subjects.
It was the Kingdom of Oude, with a sovereign who still lives in a palace near Calcutta, with large revenues wherewith to indulge his royal pleasure, but without his kingdom, which the English Government has taken from him.
The guns of Fort William were firing a salute; at Garden Reach we passed the palace of the King of Oude, where this deposed Indian sovereign still keeps his royal state among his serpents and his tigers.
Akbar, though he could not inspire others with his own spirit of justice and toleration, deserves a place in history as the greatestsovereign that ever sat in the seat of the Great Mogul.
The crown and the gallows divided the glory of the sovereign remedy.
Science is not infrequently treated as though it were enthroned on high, supreme above all the struggles and the doubts of existence, and as though, from its sovereign capacity, it were able to give a secure content of truth to life.
Telal made suitable apologies to the Nedjean monarch, the original sovereign of the annexed district; he could not resist the popular wish; it had been forced on him, etc.
The young sovereign possessed, in fact, all that Arab ideas require to insure good government and lasting popularity.
Seyf gave us a sign to follow him, made way through the crowd, and saluted his sovereign with the authorized formula of ‘Peace be with you, O the Protected of God!
