The defeated usurper then decided to make an application for Christian help, and when refused asylum by Philip II.
They soon beheld, with surprise and indignation, the gates of the palace thrown open, and the usurper Macedonius seated by the side of the praefect on a lofty chariot, which was surrounded by troops of guards with drawn swords.
Perhaps it was without the consent of Constantina, that the new emperor formed a necessary, though dishonorable, alliance with the usurper of the West, whose purple was so recently stained with her brother's blood.
The usurper improved this unexpected success with some degree of courage and dexterity.
The moderation of that artfulusurper proves, that this example of severity was justified by the spirit of the times.
Such was the conduct, and such perhaps was the duty, of the brother of Constans towards the perfidious usurper of Gaul.
Tyrannicide he justifies in respect of an usurper who has no title except force, but not as to lawful princes, or such as have become so by prescription.
All philosophers and theologians, he says, agree that an usurper may be put to death by any one.
Usurper he clearly was not, since he was elevated to power by the action of the old legitimate electoral principle; revolutionist he was not, because his design was defeated at Clontarf, in the death of his eldest son and grandson.
It is idle enough to call the projector of such a change an usurper and a revolutionist.
The use of Frothi as a typical usurperin the English Waldef story is also a very strong indication that the story in which he has his proper setting was current in England; otherwise, by what channel did he get into the Waldef story?
In Saxo's version, the boys attack the usurper in his hall and set fire to the building; he hides himself in a secret underground passage and perishes of smoke and gas.
In Meriadoc, the usurper plans to have the children hanged in a forest.
This feature is found in Saxo's version, where the usurper agrees to spare the children during good behavior.
In Saxo's version, the children having violated the condition on which they are to be spared, the usurper gathers an army to attack them.
In the Hroar-Helgi story, the usurper is represented as consulting a witch in regard to the whereabouts of the young princes.
In Meriadoc, the usurper gets the children into his power, but, being appealed to, saves them for the time being.
And it is natural that, the young heir surviving, he should avenge a murdered parent, regain the crown, and not permit the usurper to enjoy the fruits of his crime unmolested.
In the Hrólfssaga, there is a continuous effort on the part of the usurper to make away with the children.
That the story was clearly regarded as one of this type is evident from the fact that in Johannes Bramis' Historia Regis Waldei Frodas is the usurper of the throne which by right belongs to Waldef.
According to Saxo's version of the Hroar-Helgi story, the usurper procures the assassination of his brother and, to avoid suspicion, has the assassins put out of the way.
He was therefore not merely an usurper, but an usurper of the worst sort, an impostor.
During the remainder of the great prelate's life he, as it were, stood between the usurper and the people, and protected them from the threatening storm.
He appears, however, to have directed his efforts against the usurper rather in support of the claims of his sister Matilda, than of any pretensions of his own.
The late insurrection had shown the perils resulting to the usurper from the presence of the true king--though in strict concealment.
It did not appear a very easy matter to secure the usurper in that stronghold.
Thus a revolution was accomplished solely by the army commanded by Paredes, and the supreme power in Mexico passed into the hands of a military usurper who was known to be bitterly hostile to the United States.
This usurper was in his turn soon compelled to retire and give place to General Miramon.
That he has determined on the universal change of dynasties, because a usurper can never reign with safety or honour as long as any legitimate Prince may disturb his power, or reproach him for his rank.
I reply; by principles, the ignorance or neglect of which would convict him of being no poet, but a silly or presumptuous usurper of the name.
This was the kind of man that the French usurper was in want of, and he offered him the position of emperor of Mexico.
The Mexicans, who were angry at the tyrannic conduct of Maxtla, readily allied themselves with the young victor, and a series of bloody battles followed, the usurper being at length defeated under the walls of his own capital.
The usurper is perhaps the instrument of Providence, the scourge of Heaven, as Attila designated himself, but not the minister of God.
In plain truth, he was King of England because he was the only man of the blood-royal who was able to challenge the usurper who was wearing the crown.
Death is a usurper and trespasser in the bounds of God's heritage.
And when Jesus went to meet His death, He viewed it as the supreme conflict with the usurper and oppressor who claimed to be "the prince of this world.
The Government of Oliver Cromwell was that of a usurper and, in the strict sense of the word, a tyrant.
Still, usurper and tyrant as he was, his aim was not the indulgence of any mere passion of his own.
In the cause of honor and justice," they said, "we despise the usurper of Greece, his threats and his offers.
Coeur de Lion was indeed justly incensed with the usurperof his sister's dominions.
The British soldiers rushed in, theusurper was deposed, and the young Raja was restored to the throne, under the protection of the paramount power.
About 1742 a usurper seized the throne of Murshedabad, and reigned as Nawab.
The first hated the Spanish monarch as a rival; the second as the usurper of his lands.
He would, in a sacred place, and before a great congregation of the faithful, at once acknowledge an usurper as a King, and confer on a schismatic the character of a Bishop.
Nay, the people are distinctly told in that Homily that they are bound to obey, not only their legitimate prince, but any usurper whom God shall in anger set over them for their sins.
They would rather, he said, be subject to an usurper like Oliver, who was first magistrate in fact as well as in name, than to a legitimate King who referred them to a Grand Vizier.
It was believed, and confidently repeated, that the usurper was no more; and couriers started bearing the glad tidings of his death to the French ships which lay in the ports of Munster.
Lewis began to entertain a hope that the influence of the Vatican might be exerted to dissolve the alliance between the House of Austria and the heretical usurper of the English throne.
