16 collocations for king

I envy not kings their sceptres.

Many a time already the popes had rendered the Frankish kings this service and honor.

" The passage in Horace, of which this purports to be an "Imitation," is the well-known "Boeotum in crasso jurares äere natum," and it is clear enough that Pope meant to represent kings Charles and William as so devoid of the taste which should guide royal patronage, that, in selecting such objects of their favour as Blackmore and Quarles, they showed themselves to be as uncouth and unpolished as the animal to which he likens them.

Had never king a concubine but he? Did Rosamond begin the fires in France?

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those, And as courts make not kings, but kings the court, So where the Muses and their train resort, Parnassus stands; if I can be to thee A poet, thou Parnassus art to me.

Thus Death, who kings and tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doff'd; For though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone aloft.

Nor shall the rascal rabble here have place, Whom kings no titles gave, and God no grace: 580 Not bull-faced Jonas, who could statutes draw To mean rebellion, and make treason law.

Seldon, Titles of Honor, vi. 64. Where the Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara.

There are two brethren beyond the sea, and they kings both ... the one hight king Ban of Benwieke, and the other hight king Bors of Gaul, that is, France.

How concerned the Romans were to keep down Macedonia and its natural ally, the king of Syria, and how closely they associated themselves with the Egyptian policy directed to that object, is shown by the remarkable offer which after the end of the war with Carthage they made to king Ptolemy III.

My warbling lute, the lute I whilom strung, When to king John of Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames didst cut thy way, With well-timed oars before the royal barge, Swell'd with the pride of thy celestial charge; 40 And big with hymn, commander of an host, The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets

This kings countrey beginneth twelue leagues from Cochin, and reacheth neere vnto Goa.

Others thought kings an useless heavy load, Who cost too much, and did too little good.

O king the mountain

Should king Hiero, that most faithful friend of the Roman empire, rise from the shades, with what face could either Syracuse or Rome be shown to him, when, after beholding his half-demolished and plundered native city, he should see, on entering Rome, the spoils of his country in the vestibule, as it were, of the city, and almost in the very gates?"

"Most English nouns form the plural by taking s; as boy boys nation nations king kings bay bays.

16 collocations for  king