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of Occurrences 2545%

When she first began to receive, during the reign of Louis Philippe, the feeling was very bitter between the Legitimists (extreme Royalist party) and the Orleanists.

in Occurrences 488%

They say there are some far-off villages half hidden in the forests and mountains who still believe that a king and a Bourbon is reigning in France.

over Occurrences 166%

As long as the crops are good and there is no war to take away their sons and able-bodied men, they don't care, often don't know, whether a king or an emperor is reigning over them.

at Occurrences 75%

Even now, when one thinks of the King Louis Philippe, with all his tall, strong, young sons (there is a well-known picture of the King on horseback with all his sons around himsplendid specimens of young manhood), it seems incredible that they are not still ruling and reigning at the Tuileries.

as Occurrences 74%

" Never had these consoling words sounded more solemn than when they rang above the remains of Adelaide Cumberland, in this home where she had reigned as mistress ever since her seventeenth year.

with Occurrences 61%

They talk of peace with these demons By feeding and clothing them well: I'd as soon think an angel from Heaven Would reign with contentment in Hl

for Occurrences 59%

The green twilight that had reigned for so many millions of years, had now given place to impenetrable gloom.

on Occurrences 48%

Darkness reigned on the upper floors.

from Occurrences 48%

The three Hohenzollern kings, all named Frederick William, who reigned from the death of Frederick the Great (1786) to the accession of William I (1861) did not count much personally.

throughout Occurrences 34%

Yet these blemishes, and Lord Hervey's wit, who said 'the house was too small to inhabit, and too large to hang to one's watch,' cannot depreciate the taste that reigns throughout the whole.

by Occurrences 31%

When he became emperor, he began his reign by a reaction against the excesses, real or supposed, of the preceding reign.

without Occurrences 22%

Like that too it reigns without a competitor.

among Occurrences 21%

It was now divided into fourteen companies (or squadrons in the modern phraseology), under the command of as many independent chiefs, so as to leave little chance of any principle of union reigning among them.

through Occurrences 19%

What confusion then reigned through the whole house!

after Occurrences 14%

Uncle Philip was less able to stand the quiet which was reigning after the presentation of his gifts than were the children, who were completely lost in the new marvels.

between Occurrences 14%

Three years had elapsed since that day, and no event had occurred to interrupt the domestic happiness of those young couples, or to disturb the perfect friendship and unanimity that reigned between them.

like Occurrences 13%

Oh, the dreadful, quiet brooding, the solitude sublime, That reigned like shadowy spectres o'er the third great day of time.

within Occurrences 13%

Grief Fierce hunger reigns within my breast, I had not dreamt that this whole world, Crushed in the hand of God, could yield Such bitter essence of unrest, Such pain as Sorrow now hath hurled Out of its dreadful heart, unsealed!

to Occurrences 11%

Thy pencil has, by monarchs sought, From reign to reign in ermine wrought, And, in their robes of state arrayed, The kings of half an age displayed.

around Occurrences 11%

As soon as the little stir created in the Hut by the mustering of the men was over, a stillness as profound as that which had preceded the alarm reigned around the place.

about Occurrences 11%

A hushed silence reigned about the gray building and the old pine trees under the tower, whose branches lay trailing on the ground.

before Occurrences 8%

According to others the Sâdia reigned before the Shereefs.

above Occurrences 8%

" They spurred their horses as they saw The ladies their approach surveyed; And when they reached their journey's end The King to Dorelice said: "The goddesses who reign above With envy of thy beauty tell; When heaven and glory are thy gifts, Why should I feel the pangs of hell? "Oh, tell me what is thy desire?

during Occurrences 5%

[K] What these laws were of Edward the Confessor, which the English, every reign during a century and a half, desire so passionately to have restored, is much disputed by antiquaries, and our ignorance of them seems one of the greatest defects in the ancient English history.

under Occurrences 5%

A great series of reforms had been peaceably effected without revolution; the kingdom was unusually prosperous; so that Queen Victoria, William's niece, the daughter of his brother the Duke of Kent (whose previous death had made Victoria heir-apparent to the throne), entered upon her illustrious reign under hopeful auspices, June 21, 1837.

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