185 Verbs to Use for the Word emperor

Lothair was in fact crowned emperor; and his two brothers, Pépin and Louis, were crowned king, "in order that they might reign, after their father's death and under their brother and lord, Lothair, to wit: Pépin, over Aquitaine and a great part of Southern Gaul and of Burgundy; Louis, beyond the Rhine, over Bavaria and the divers peoples in the east of Germany."

I had been in Spain in the early part of the preceding century, and I had there learned to speak the pure Castilian tongue, so that when the officer talked with me I could see that he was surprised, and presently he told the emperor that he had never heard any one who spoke such excellent Spanish.

Fifty servants who were devoted to him accompanied the ex-emperor into exile.

On the first of the month Rabiya-al-akher, the ambassadors received notice to go to meet the emperor, who was then on his return from hunting; and, on getting on horseback before day for that purpose, they found Mulana Kazi Yusof waiting for them at the door of their hotel, in great dejection.

I myself would be afraid to face Paulus, being not much good with the javelin in any case, besides being superstitious about killing emperors, who are gods, not men, or the senate and priests wouldn't say so.

In 947 the Kitan ruler proclaimed himself emperor of the Kitan and the Chinese.

[Sidenote:1] Thus was Galba declared emperor just as Tiberius had foretold when he said to him: "You also shall have a little taste of sovereignty."

It was Galen who spoke next: "Pertinax, if you might choose an emperor, whom would you nominate? Remember: He must be a soldier, used to the stench of marching legions.

When found that Augustus was displeased with him and that he was likely to be punished, he took the emperor into his house, and showing him many treasures of silver and gold and many other valuables piled up in heaps, he said: "I have gathered these purposely, master, for you and for the rest of the Romans, to prevent the inhabitants from getting control of so much money and therefore revolting.

He and I would make a good pair to be blamed for murdering an emperor.

But now were heard approaching the horsemen who had been commissioned to bring back the emperor alive.

"No!" exclaimed the emperor, vehemently.

The arena where a man salutes a dummy emperor before a disguised one kills him?

He served faithfully and devotedly his emperor as a sacred personage, ruling by divine right, to whom were intrusted the interests of the nation.

He now proposed that the French people elect him emperor of the French for life, and by an overwhelming vote they did so.

This part of our subject is important, because it gave occasion for the assertion that the pope could depose the Holy Roman emperor and the king of Italy, if he should find him morally or physically disqualified for fulfilling the condition on which his appointment dependedthat he should defend him from his enemies.

When, therefore, people of that class wanted to play a political part in the central government, or to gain a position there, they had either to get into close touch with one of the families of the gentry, or to try to approach the emperor directly.

While she informed the emperor of this new insult, Josephine's whole figure trembled, and a deathly pallor overspread her countenance.

From Toledo, where she was, she wrote to her brother, "After having been four days without seeing the emperor, when I went to take leave I found him so gracious that I think he is very much afraid of my going; those gentry yonder are in a great fix, and, if you will be pleased to hold firm, I can see them coming round to your wishes.

If you deprive the emperor of his ships and ruin his Ostend trade, will he be a less emperor than he is at this moment?

"What seem I to thee?" asked the emperor, flattered, no doubt, by this attention of the mob.

For this great end the Italian statesman labored night and day, under great difficulties, and constant apprehension that something might happen which would compel the French emperor to break his promises, for his situation was also critical.

But this Godfrey, upheld by Baldwin of Flanders, forced the emperor to concede to him the inheritance of the dukedom.

This no orthodox heathen ever doubted: Lucian, who was a freethinker, laughs indeed at the tale; but has made him ample amends in this history by creating him emperor of the moon. {83a} Modern astronomers are, I, think, agreed, that we are to the moon just the same as the moon is to us.

But the policy of persecution was reversed by succeeding emperors.

185 Verbs to Use for the Word  emperor