425 examples of gustavus in sentences

Theodosius for genius and virtue ranks with the most illustrious sovereigns that ever wore a crown,with Charlemagne, with Alfred, with William III., with Gustavus Adolphus.

Such a demand would have been deemed arrogant in Wallenstein, amid the successes of Gustavus Adolphus.

I need hardly say, that I allude especially to those five splendid works,the assassinations of William I, of Orange, of Henry IV., of France, of the Duke of Buckingham, (which you will find excellently described in the letters published by Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum,) of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein.

" A cordial, rich and juicy speech, such as shaped itself into, and lived anew in, the Gustavus Adolphuses. Chap.

In one of the halls, among the works of modern times, are two beautiful marble tables richly inlaid with all sorts of stones of value, with bas-reliefs on them; the one representing the visit of the Emperor Joseph II, and the other that of Gustavus III of Sweden to Rome, and their reception by the Pope.

Sweden was formerly under the Danish yoke, but Gustavus Yasa delivered it when he introduced the reformed religion in 1527.

The leader of an epoch in affairs should therefore be some Alfred, Bruce, Gustavus Vasa, Cromwell, Washington, Garibaldi, who can wait while the iron of opportunity heats at the forge of time; and then, in the moment of its white glow, can so smite as to shape it forever to the uses of mankind.

Before the Swedish strength your troops had melted; Beside the Lech sank Tilly your last hope; Into Bavaria like a winter torrent, Did that Gustavus pour, and at Vienna In his own palace did the Emperor tremble.

They have with them some light field-pieces, artillery being the only point of superiority they yet claim; but these are not basilisks, nor falconets, nor culverins, (colubri, couleuvres,) nor drakes, (dracones,) nor warning-pieces,they are the leathern guns of Gustavus Adolphus, made of light cast-iron and bound with ropes and leather.

BROOKE, AUTHOR OF GUSTAVUS VASA; WITH A PROPOSAL FOR MAKING THE OFFICE OF LICENSER MORE EXTENSIVE AND EFFECTUAL.

Thus Gustavus, speaking of his tatters, cries out,

Here this abandoned son of liberty makes a full discovery of his execrable principles, the tatters of Gustavus, the usual dress of the assertors of these doctrines, are of more divinity, because they are sacred to freedom, than the sumptuous and magnificent robes of regality itself.

R88243, 27Dec51, David Saville Muzzey (A) MYERS, GUSTAVUS.

R93451, 11Apr52, Mrs. Gustavus Myers (W) NASBY, PETROLEUM V., pseud. SEE Locke, David Ross.

SEE Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.

MAYFIELD, JOHN C. A study book for science problems, 1-2. SEE Beauchamp, Wilbur L. MAYNADIER, GUSTAVUS HOWARD.

With the collaboration of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer & J. Maunoury.

MAYFIELD, JOHN C. A study book for science problems, 1-2. SEE Beauchamp, Wilbur L. MAYNADIER, GUSTAVUS HOWARD.

Had the Swedish successors of Gustavus Adolphus devoted their energies to colonization in America, instead of squabbling with Slavs and Germans for one or two wretched Baltic provinces, they could undoubtedly have built up in the new world a Sweden tenfold greater than that in the old.

Some years after the reorganization of the Grand Lodge of England, the sword was borne by the Master of the Lodge to which it belonged; but, in 1730, the Duke of Norfolk, being then Grand Master, presented to the Grand Lodge the sword of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, which had afterwards been used in war by Bernard, Duke of Saxe Weimar, and which the Grand Master directed should thereafter be adopted as his sword of state.

My old hero, the glorious Gustavus Adolphus, was as forward to fight as any man of true valour mixed with any policy need to be, or ought to be; but he used to say, "An enemy reduced to a necessity of fighting is half beaten.

Nay, the very time after the conclusion of it, but before the news could be brought to the army, did he that was afterwards King of Sweden, Carolus Gustavus, take the city of Prague by surprise, and therein an inestimable booty.

And this is far from being an excuse; for if the king had been a Gustavus Adolphus, I had certainly received a check for it.

ERNST I., Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg; served in the Thirty Years' War under Gustavus Adolphus, and shared in the victory of Lützen; was an able and wise ruler, and gained for himself the surname of "the Pious" (1601-1675).

There was also exhibited the armor of a dwarf king of Bohemia and Hungary who died a gray-headed old man in his twentieth year, the sword of Marlborough, the coat of Gustavus Adolphus, pierced in the breast and back with the bullet which killed him at Lützen, the armor of the old Bohemian princess Libussa, and that of the amazon Wlaska, with a steel vizor made to fit the features of her face.

425 examples of  gustavus  in sentences