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Example sentences for "tsar"

Lexicographically close words:
trysted; trysting; trysts; tryumph; tsangpo; tschli; tsetse; tseu; tshi; tsun
  1. I'll lift the soldiers of the Tsar into the air on my lances and trample their bodies under the feet of my horses.

  2. But the Lord God softened the heart of Alexander the Blessed, and the merciful Tsar would not allow Napoleonder to be shot or sent to Siberia.

  3. With tearful eyes, the whole Russian people, too, from the Tsar to the last beggar, prayed God for mercy and help.

  4. And to-morrow morning he must begin another battle--the last terrible fight with the Tsar Alexander the Blessed, on the field of Borodino.

  5. I'll make the Tsar himself a prisoner, and I'll kill or scatter the whole Russian people.

  6. I think the Tsar will now withdraw the small humanities that have been forced from him, and resume his medieval barbarisms with a relieved spirit and an immeasurable joy.

  7. In 1835 the Tsar Nicholas and the new Austrian emperor, Ferdinand, met at Teplitz where they renewed the agreements concluded at Münchengrätz.

  8. Notwithstanding a peremptory declaration from the tsar after the seizure of the Danish fleet, Russia had nothing to gain by war with Great Britain.

  9. The tsar refused to accept the condition and made preparations for war.

  10. A further sign of friendship was given when the tsar handed over the Cronstadt fleet for safekeeping to the British.

  11. Matters were not improved when the tsar asked for the cession of the Danubian principalities, which were still occupied by Russia, in return for a remission of the war indemnity owing since 1829.

  12. The liberal tendencies of the tsar had been quenched by recent events, so that, instead of a concert of Europe, there was left only a concert of absolute monarchs.

  13. Unknown to either of the combatants, the Tsar Paul, the life and soul of the northern confederacy, had been murdered on the night of March 23, ten days before the battle, and with his death the league was practically dissolved.

  14. Doubtless the tsar might plead that Great Britain, too, had been wasting her strength in selfish attempts to secure her mastery of the seas, and to open new markets for her trade.

  15. But though war seemed imminent, the tsar still disowned all idea of conquest, and professed to desire nothing further than the execution of the treaty of London.

  16. Before the conference broke up, the tsar informally suggested a conference at St. Petersburg to arrange joint intervention on the basis of the erection of three principalities under Turkish suzerainty in Greece and the Ægean.

  17. The siege was long and costly; the army suffered severely; and only the tenacity of the tsar kept it in camp for six weeks.

  18. Their first and most notable victim was Philip, the saintly metropolitan of Moscow, who was strangled for condemning the oprichina as an unchristian institution, and refusing to bless the tsar (1569).

  19. Ivan was also the first tsar who dared to attack the Crimea.

  20. A delator of infamous character, one Peter, had accused the authorities of the city to the tsar of conspiracy; Ivan, without even confronting the Novgorodians with their accuser, proceeded at the end of 1569 to punish them.

  21. In 1551 the tsar submitted to a synod of prelates a hundred questions as to the best mode of remedying existing evils, for which reason the decrees of this synod are generally called stoglav or centuria.

  22. In 1882 he was sent on a mission to Europe to study the various forms of constitutional government; on this occasion he attended the coronation of the tsar Alexander III.

  23. The tsar himself lived in an atmosphere of apprehension, imagining that every man's hand was against him.

  24. Their influence upon the young tsar was profoundly beneficial, and the period of their administration coincides with the most glorious period of Ivan's reign--the period of the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan.

  25. The most important, that of Nijni Novgorod, held annually in July and August at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kama, was instituted in the 17th century by the tsar Michael Fedorovitch.

  26. The tsar did great damage to Evelyn's beautiful gardens, and, it is said, made it one of his amusements to ride in a wheelbarrow along a thick holly hedge planted especially by the owner.

  27. Russians follows a description of the reception by ladies of Elizabeth's Court in 1584 of Russian ambassadors who came to London to seek a wife among the ladies of the English nobility for the Tsar (cf.

  28. The Imperial yacht with the Tsar and Imperial Family on board steamed through the British lines yesterday, afterwards lunching on the British flagship.

  29. The king swears to protect it, but no powers pertain to him with regard to it such as those which the tsar enjoys; the present king is not a member of it, but his successors must be.

  30. Serfdom was abolished in 1817 by Tsar Alexander I.

  31. No one could be found to replace him adequately, and the Tsar expressed a desire that his departure should be postponed.

  32. The worst moment was in July 1886, when the Tsar suddenly proclaimed, contrary to the Treaty of Berlin, that the port of Batum was closed to foreign trade.

  33. These were the most notable of the men who flouted the authority, thwarted the work, and undermined the position of the Tsar's nominal adviser, and often they carried the day in determining the attitude of the Tsar himself.

  34. If the Tsar had even been in the Crimea when Wrangel was there they would never have given him up.

  35. Yes, our regiment of Guards was actually in the lines below Verdun when the Tsar was dethroned.

  36. They began calling out to us, 'The Tsar has abdicated.

  37. He was capable of a great deal, but he was quiet and obedient in the presence of Davidson as if he had found a Tsar again.

  38. The latter are doing their utmost to safeguard themselves, but they are weaker than the Tsar was.

  39. I knew him for sixty years, ever since Tsar Alexander who beat the French was brought from Taganrog to Moscow.

  40. Siberia is just as much Russia and has the same God and Tsar as here.

  41. But after November 1712 the Porte had no more money to spare; and, the tsar making a show of submission, the sultan began to regard Charles as a troublesome guest.

  42. At the end of that time there came an order from the Tsar to grant leave to the soldiers--to twenty-five of each company at a time--to go and see their families.

  43. The Tsar Maiden pursues the thief, but does not succeed in catching him.

  44. In another version of the story, the precious fluid is contained in a flask which is hidden under the pillow of the slumbering "Tsar Maiden.

  45. Prince Alexander, whose relations with the court of St Petersburg had become less cordial since the death of his uncle, the tsar Alexander II.

  46. The prince's plans were favoured by the death of the tsar Alexander III.

  47. He now committed the error of addressing a telegram to the tsar in which he offered to resign his crown into the hands of Russia.

  48. The Bulgarian tsar was so overpowered by the spectacle that he died of grief.

  49. The Bulgarians of pagan times are stated by the monk Khrabr, a contemporary of Tsar Simeon, to have employed a peculiar writing, of which inscriptions recently found near Kaspitchan may possibly be specimens.

  50. There are statues of serpentine marble, gifts of the late Tsar of Russia, whose admiration is also represented by a gorgeous inlaid and enamelled cigar-case.

  51. Of these the Tsar Kolokol is the largest.


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