Ruler

Examples

• Such the decree of the High Ruler from whom there is no appeal: to whom I submit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Caliphronas turned pale, for he knew that Justinian was absolute ruler of Melnos, while he was thoroughly well hated by the inhabitants, one and all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Luxembourg was included in the German Confederation, though its ruler was also King of the Netherlands, and though many of its peoples talked French. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You saw that although it was a case of a frontier ruler, yet there was an air of distinction and elegance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was an almost perfect specimen of manhood; tall, straight as an arrow, superbly muscled and with the carriage and bearing of a ruler of men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• No intelligent ruler, he said, arises to take me as his master, and my time has come to die. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You will make an admirable ruler of Melnos! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The citizen served as warrior in youth, ruler in his maturity, priest in his old age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The church, in comparison with its later state, was more in the hands of local laymen and the local ruler; it lacked its later universality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is he a ruler—a law-giver? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Two I had disarmed, and one was down, when several more rushed to the aid of their new ruler, and to avenge the death of the old. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The ruler may impose the laws and institutions which we have been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey them? Plato. The Republic.
• In 1169 a Kurdish adventurer, named Saladin, became ruler of Egypt, in which country the Shiite heresy had now fallen before a Sunnite revival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A sentiment approaching happiness followed the total resignation of one's being to the guardianship of the world's ruler. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Like myself, you are born to be a ruler, not a unit in English civilization. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Even the subsidy by rulers of privately conducted schools must be carefully safeguarded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Plainly, like all changes of government, from division in the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
• But they cannot be allowed to live in licentiousness; that is an unholy thing, which the rulers are determined to prevent. Plato. The Republic.
• Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• O death and change, rulers of our life, where are ye, that I may grapple with you! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It has become one of the grim trade jokes of innovators that the one thing you can count upon is that the rulers will come to think that they are the apex of human development. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He exclaims, O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the future reckon with this man? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There flourished the first temples and the first priest-rulers that we know of among mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And in our State what other name besides that of citizens do the people give the rulers? Plato. The Republic.
• But generation after generation the spirit was abused by priests and rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rulers are simply interested in such training as will make their subjects better tools for their own intentions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And if there be any State in which rulers and subjects will be agreed as to the question who are to rule, that again will be our State? Plato. The Republic.

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