29 Verbs to Use for the Word empress

She may allowa justice to be done By him, that raised his empress to her throne.

If I should tell the empress that men of my country believed that it was right to have but one wife, Rina would quickly be disposed of; so she had to decide whether she would prefer to die so that I might marry the empress, or to preserve her life and lose her undivided possession of a husband.

Mr. Van Torp, who often bought large pictures, was reminded of one recently offered to him in America, representing an empress.

He wrote the queen a letter, requiring her to leave Paris with her children, and follow the empress.

In the end he actually divorced the empress and made the concubine empress (655).

Nothing now remained to be done but to remove Josephine from the throne, and elevate a new, a legitimate empress, to the vacant place!

I held the empress in my arms, which encircled her waist, her back rested against my chest, and her hand leaned upon my right shoulder.

Mozart's sister relates, that when they were at Versailles, Madame de Pompadour had her brother placed upon a table, and that as he approached to salute her, she turned away from him; upon which he said indignantly, "I wonder who she is, that she will not kiss methe empress has kissed me!"

It was clearly the man's business to know empresses by sight.

The Emperor Manelay has set forth to the Holy Land, leaving his empress and kingdom in his brother's care.

If I should tell the empress that men of my country believed that it was right to have but one wife, Rina would quickly be disposed of; so she had to decide whether she would prefer to die so that I might marry the empress, or to preserve her life and lose her undivided possession of a husband.

And for this reason the emperor at first refused to accept this truly imperial present, and he yielded only when he perceived that his refusal would offend the empress, who seemed to be more pale and irritable than usual.

" "You are right there," said her husband; "and my answer pleased the empress.

Except that as yet she saw no prospect of presenting the empress with a grandchild, she had hardly a wish ungratified.

[Footnote 27: According to Napoleon's instructions, his brothers were to prevent the empress and the King of Rome from falling into the hands of the enemy.

The Wang, an old Shansi family, had already provided two empresses, and was therefore strongly represented at court.

It was the one topic on which her own feelings of propriety, as well as those of the dauphin, coincided with the suggestions of the aunts, and she did not desire to vex or provoke the empress by a prolonged discussion of the question; but the charge of coldness to her own countrymen she denied earnestly.

The people of Paris also received the new empress with a languid enthusiasm.

The maniac figure of the Saxon Ulrica was for a long time visible on the lofty stand she had chosen, tossing her arms abroad with wild exaltation as if she reigned empress of the conflagration which she had raised.

I present you with this token in commemoration of the day on which you bring my daughter the ducal crown, in order that it may remind you of mother and daughter alikeof the dethroned empress and of the dethroned queen.

General Yüan Shih-k'ai, who was then stationed at Tientsin in command of 7,000 troops with modern equipment, the only ones in China, could have removed the empress and protected the reformers; but he was already pursuing a personal policy, and thought it safer to give the reformers no help.

Ambrose, indeed, had rebuked Theodosius, and set in defiance the empress when she interfered with his spiritual functions; and Leo had laid the corner-stone of the Papacy by instituting a divine right to his decrees.

The reason was that Silanus had offended Messalina, the most abandoned and lustful of women, in refusing to lie with her, and by the slight shown the empress had alienated Narcissus, the emperor's freedman.

One other detail in the accounts of Marie Antoinette's conduct, which from time to time reached Vienna, had also vexed the empress, and it should be kept in mind by any one who would fairly estimate the truth of the charge brought against her, and urged with such rancor after she had become queenof postponing the interests of France to those of her native land, of being Austrian at heart.

It was equally natural for Mercy to assure the empress that it had been the grace and elegance of the dauphiness herself which had attracted general admiration, and that it was to her example and instruction that every one attributed the courteous demeanor which, as he did not deny, the young prince had unquestionably exhibited.

29 Verbs to Use for the Word  empress