27 Metaphors for monarch

An English monarch is now as much the creature of an Act of Parliament as the pettiest tax-gatherer in his realm.

Saved by Cyrus from an ignominious and painful death, such as the barbarous customs of war then made common, the unhappy Lydian monarch became, it is said, the friend and admirer of the Conqueror, and was present in his future expeditions, and even proved a wise and faithful counsellor.

Some even decided that the Monarch, being a terror to sheep, was not an undesirable neighbor.

There is one Athelstan, mentioned in the reign of the king of that name, who is called Alderman of all England, and is said to be half-king; though the monarch himself was a prince of valour and abilities [h].

Now here I confess I cannot go along with you, and the difference between us is a very material one; for if the monarch be not an indispensable element in our constitutional mechanism, and if we can secure all the advantages of that mechanism without him, I have drawn the wrong moral from the facts.

Unfortunately the monarch was much nearer Pierlepont at the time than the young men supposed.

He advances, as a proof of this assertion, that he was called upon on one occasion to deliver to Eduardo Fernandez, a Portuguese banker (who, according to Bassompierre, had made a visit of speculation to the French Court, and who unhesitatingly provided the nobles with large sums, either on security or at immense interest), the enormous amount of thirty-four thousand pistoles, for which the reckless monarch had become his debtor.

Grandson of the late King Christian of Denmark, the young monarch is also nephew to King George of Greece, the Dowager Empress of Russia, and Alexandria of England, a grand-nephew to the late Oscar of Sweden, son-in-law to King Edward VII, and cousin to the Czar.

The Monarch and Queen of the West were the only boats of the ram fleet that took part in the action.

Men had to wander to far Persia if they would have desired to know what sort of thing a monarch is.

The oldest church in the town is St. Andrew's, supposed to have been built by King David of Scotland at the time when that monarch was Lord of Tynedale, in the reign of King Stephen.

" This monarch was also a wise, popular, and talented man.

The most illustrious monarch of the Middle Ages was doubtless Charlemagne.

The Inquisitiondespotism in its worst formpovertyrags licean overbearing insolent and sanguinary priesthood of whom the monarch is either the puppet or the slave; a degraded nobility; a half savage, grossly ignorant, lazy and brutal people.

Thus attracted, the infatuated monarch became her constant guest; and his neglected wife, in weak health, and with an agonised heart, saw herself abandoned for a wanton who had set a price upon her virtue, and who made a glory of her shame.

He is a singular exception from the rule which maintains that monarchs are indifferent authors.

The struggle was, however, a formidable one; for although the Marquise had forfeited his good opinion, she had not lost her powers of fascination; and she so well knew how to use them, that, despite his better reason, the sensual monarch still remained her slave.

Many of Mr. Lukey's stood 32 inches and over; Mr. Green's Monarch was over 33 inches, The Shah 32 inches, and Cardinal 32 inches.

A monarch is a life-long candidate, and there exists a singularly elaborate traditional art of producing personal affection for him.

The ruling monarch, who was official servitor of the national gods, interpreting their will and adding to the endowments of the temples, was the embodiment of secular and of religious authority.

He had been brought up a Protestant at the Court of Henri IV, when that monarch was King of Navarre; but after the death of his father he embraced the Catholic religion, and at the age of eighteen commenced the career of arms, in which profession he acquired so much celebrity that he commanded the armies of the King during the absence of the Duc de Joyeuse.

[Footnote A: The monarch alluded to was evidently Victor Amadeus, King of Sardinia.

There, O monarch, is a great river, and spot called Gayasira.

The crowned monarch and the beggar sleep side by side, and their mingled dust is the sport of the winds of the heavens.

Since Charlemagne, no monarch had been the object of such unbounded panegyric as he, until Napoleon appeared.

27 Metaphors for  monarch