71 Metaphors for emperor

i.e. the Emperor is the superior in rank.

There it stands like a huge bronze I, and the emperor is the dot upon it.

[By nature] the emperor was such a person [that he was jealous not only of the living, but also of the dead.

But it should be considered that the emperor was the steward of the public resources for maintaining the baths in fuel, oil, attendance, repairs.

Thereupon a young artist, whose name is also suppressed, likewise had a vision of St. Filomena, who told him that the emperor was Diocletian; but as history stands somewhat opposed to this statement, it has been suggested that the artist mistook the name, and that the Saint said Maximian.

The emperor at that time was Basil II (976-1025), who was brave and patriotic but young and inexperienced.

'Since the Emperor has been upon the coast the place swarms with police agents, so that a trader must look to his own interests.

The Pope has the canons of the Church on his side; the Emperor the laws of feudalism,and both the canons of the Church and feudal principles are binding obligations.

V.When the emperor Charles V. was one day walking in the neighbourhood of Vienna, full of pious considerations, engendered by the thoughts of the Dominican cloister he was about to visit, he was much annoyed by the noise of a pig, which a country youth was carrying a little way before him.

The next emperor who disappeared from the field was Maximin, who had embarked in a civil war with Licinius.

The Indian Emperor is an instance, what beautiful poetry may be united to, we had almost said thrown away upon, the heroic drama.

'Ah, I feared as much, for the Emperor is a terrible man.

The Cologne edition comprises one hundred and eighty-one chapters, each consisting of a tale or anecdote followed by a moral application, commencing formally with the words, "My beloved, the prince is intended to represent any good Christian," or, "My beloved, the emperor is Christ; the soldier is any sinner."

Thus the emperor became protector of Buddhism and a sort of god.

" "But," said the boy, after a moment's reflection, "why is it that they are not our uncles?" The governess withdrew with the two children to the back of the parlor, and explained to them, in a low voice, that the emperors and kings then in Paris, far from being their uncles, were their vanquishers.

Yet Alonso de Payva actually believed that the emperor of Ethiopia was Presbyter John, having learnt that he was a Christian king over a Christian nation, as shall be more particularly declared hereafter.

For some time the emperor was a prey to great perplexity not wishing to kill the men,for he saw that no greater safety would be his by their destruction,nor yet to let them go, for fear this might attract others to conspire against him.

The siege lasted for ten months, in which the city was most ably defended by Ferrucci, that gallant soldier whose portrait by Piero di Cosimo is in our National GalleryNo. 895and then came a decisive battle in which the Emperor and Pope were conquerors, a thousand brave Florentines were put to death and others were imprisoned.

The Emperor himself, before his accession to the throne, was the administrator of the customhouse of this city, where he has acquired his commercial tastes and habits of business, which he has cultivated from the very commencement of his reign.

The Emperor wishing to keep himself advised of what was passing in the University of France, yet without attracting public attention, was wont on certain occasions to send to the University a trustworthy and intelligent person from his household, who was to bring back a report.

She undertook a voyage to Constantinople for no other end than to obtain a knowledge of the true God, and there she received baptism at the hands of the patriarch Polyeuctes; the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus himself, who admired her wisdom, being her godfather.

The present Emperor, Muley Solyman, was the youngest prince, and lived retired in the city of Fez, assiduously occupied in studying the Alcoran and the laws of the empire, in order to qualify himself for the office of high-priest, which he was intended to fill.

The chief ground is the belief that the Emperor is the chief representative of the Revolution and identical with it, and that a compromise with the Revolution is as inadmissible in internal as in external policy."

To this old warrior his Emperor had been friends, kindred, wife, and childrennay, almost God.

The "Indian Emperor" was probably the first of Dryden's performances which drew upon him, in an eminent degree, the attention of the public.

71 Metaphors for  emperor