I, friar Oderic, was personally at Cambalu for three years, and was often present at the royal banquets; for we of the minorite order have a habitation appointed for us in the emperors court, and are enjoined to go frequently into the presence, that we may bestow our blessing on the emperor.

Under the emperor Akbar (1556-1605), the Mughals absorbed the greater part of Northern India, concentrating in one imperial court more power and wealth than had probably been amassed at any previous time in India.

This is especially true of the Oriental proskynesis found in the very first Eclogue and developed into complete "emperor worship" in the dedication of the Georgics.

But there are often prodigious showers of hail; insomuch, that by the sudden melting of one of these, at the time when the emperor elect was about to be placed on his throne, at which time we were at the imperial court, above an hundred and sixty persons were drowned, and many habitations and much valuable things were swept away.

Before commencing his career as independent commander he, following his father's example, attached himself to the court of Sigismund, the Emperor-king, in whose train he visited the countries of Western Europe, Germany, England, and Italy, till he at length returned home, his mind enriched by experience but with the fervor of his first faith unchilled.

Under the emperors persons were confined often on the rocky islands off the coast, or in a compulsory residence in a particular place assigned.

Honors to hym the emperor doth honor!

Chiefly the emperor tulip-tree, however, shook to the air its noble vestments, and lit up all the hill-side with its beauty.

Yet the limits of paternal power were more and more curtailed, so that under the later emperors fathers were not allowed to have more authority than was perhaps expedient.

On passing this outward gate, they entered a very beautiful paved court of great extent, where they found 100,000 men waiting at the emperors gate, although it was not yet day.

To what lengths might Mac not go if one dangled before him the priceless bait of a golden-tipped emperor goose, dressed in imperial robes of rose-flecked snow?

There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.

I shall endeavor, if I can, to send the emperor information on all these matters.

He showed in his capacity of emperor kindliness and uprightness, unimpeachable management, and a most careful consideration for the public welfare.

And when Silvester demanded of him what men they were that so appeared to him, the emperor wist not ne could not name them.

He then appointed oxen and horses for our use, and two men to attend upon us; but he desired us to abide with him, until the messenger should return with the translation of the emperors letters from Soldaia.

The emperor-moth calls its mateso says Fabreby means of olfactory vibrations totally uncomprehended by us.

The general took another plan, and once allowed no sign of life about the castle when the emperor passedit was like a deserted place.

Why did Bismarck’s three-emperor-alliance fail?

The emperor reserves to himself the revenues which arise from the salt mines, and those which are derived from impositions upon a certain herb called Tcha, which they drink with hot water, and of which vast quantities are sold in all the cities in China.

The ambassadors were much afflicted at this news, and continued their journey for about twenty miles to the emperors camp.

The other matters on which the emperor chiefly dwells were those on which Mercy, and, by Mercy's advice, Maria Teresa also, had repeatedly pressed her.

Bismarck called this new combination the “Drei-kaiser-bund” or three-emperor-bond.