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Example sentences for "the king"

  • But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth.

  • Now this same summer, when King Christopher was of twenty years and two, Rolf the Marshal, sleeping one noontide in the King's garden at Oakenham, dreamed a dream.

  • Montano, the King of Thieves, was first heard of in the mountains some ten years ago, when people said brigands were extinct.

  • The King of Thieves was, however, continuing his address with the same kind of dangerous politeness.

  • I am the King of Thieves, and I welcome you all to my summer palace.

  • Great Olympus reeled beneath the divine feet of the king as he arose and earth groaned thereat.

  • I am the king Puff-jaw, and am honoured in all the pond, being ruler of the Frogs continually.

  • The king allowed he would go, too, and see if he couldn't strike something.

  • So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was, and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet.

  • The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.

  • It was Mbonga, the king, father of Kulonga.

  • The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward," said the Scarecrow.

  • Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.

  • And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, "Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.

  • All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.

  • The King whom we have chosen--and who is the best we have to choose--has his weakness.

  • The King we had known so long, was ailing and wearily old; he was so wrapped up in the study of the mysteries, and the joy of closely knowing them, that earthly matters had grown nauseous to him; and at any time he might decide to die.

  • I am the King's man still, and so I can take no service from you.

  • By the ancient law of the land all the people, great and small, were the servants of the king, to be put without question to what purposes he chose; and Phorenice stood in the place of the king.

  • Esdr 3:11 The second wrote, The king is strongest.

  • Esdr 1:37 The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.

  • FIRST - The remains of monarchial tyranny in the person of the king.

  • Maybe he could wish her on the king--it is possible that such a thought urged him on.

  • Tarzan made a face at the king of beasts, whereat Numa, greatly to the ape-man's surprise, started to climb up into the branches toward him.

  • I The king sat on his throne Glowing in gold and red; The crown in his right hand shone, And the gray hairs crowned his head.

  • He put the crown on the chilly brow: "Thou should'st have reigned with me But Death is the king of both, and now I go to obey with thee.

  • The king rose up like a prophet of yore, In a lofty, deathlike joy.

  • For one thing thou hast given, O Love, one thing Is ours that nothing can remove; And as the King discrowned is still a King, The unhappy lover still preserves his love.

  • Stand back, O cruel man, O foe of youth, And let such men as hearken not thy voice Press freely up the road to truth, The King's highway of choice.

  • For he's the king of all In the tempest and the squall, And the ruler of the Ocean wild and wide!

  • They offered friendship to the king, and he took their suit kindly; so they went with him to Ireland, and fought battles there.

  • So Cormac went abroad and his brother Thorgils went with him; and when they came to the king's court they were made welcome.

  • But while they were ever with the king in his warfarings, Thorgils was aware that Cormac was used to sleep but little; and he asked why this might be.

  • But it so happened that Cormac heard of it; and he made after them and gave good help, so that they saved everything that belonged to them, and came safely at last to the court of the king of Norway.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the cities; the cloud; the heaven; the heavens; the third; the wicked; then applied; then back; then each; then give; then heated; then place; then pour off the; then put; then rinse; then take; then transferred; then would; there could; there isn; there seems; there she; therefore the; these birds; these lines; these men