Monarchs

Examples

• Only the first of the Han monarchs continued the policy of Shi-Hwang-ti against the _literati_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All other monarchs in Europe paled before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My brother William,' said the old man admiringly, 'is fit company for monarchs; but not so your uncle, my dear. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As we have already told in Chapter XVI, he was almost the last of the Assyrian monarchs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Church and monarchs in their mutual grapple for power were both calling to their aid the thoughts of the common man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He is one of the few monarchs in history who cared for his successor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Akbar next perhaps to Asoka, was one of the greatest of Indian monarchs, and one of the few royal figures that approach the stature of great men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And, fled from monarchs, Mount Charles, dwells with thee! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We will not follow the fluctuations of the power and prestige of the English Parliament through the time of the Tudor monarchs (_i. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already noted the name of Sennacherib, the son of Sargon II, among the monarchs of the Assyrian Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So challenged, many of the monarchs became apologetic and fussily useful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was her Europe: her emperor: her allied monarchs and august prince regent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As with most monarchs of great states, they did not guide their empire; they were carried by it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A series of Popes pursued the policy of supporting the French monarchs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Alexander was, as few other monarchs have ever been, a specially educated king; he was educated for empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Few monarchs have left us intimate diaries; to be a monarch and to be frank are incompatible feats; monarchy is itself necessarily a pose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The funeral procession of monarchs of old, was transcended by our splendid shews. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Of the Abbasid monarchs after Abul Abbas we need tell little here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No wonder that they were soon sold all over the world, and that monarchs and people hastened to heap honors on the inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Villain, said Cedric, the fathers of Athelstane were monarchs of England! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We cannot even catalogue here the minor Grand Monarchs of the time in Florence (Tuscany) and Savoy and Saxony and Denmark and Sweden. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The ministers maintained a continuity of policy during the off days of their monarchs, and between one monarch and another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The chief among these Kushan monarchs was Kanishka (date unknown), who added to North India Kashgar, Yarkand, and Khotan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was indeed an age of brilliant monarchs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Psyche