151 Verbs to Use for the Word reigns

And so began the reign of peace in the Old Ladies' Home.

Ferdinand and Isabella commence their joint reign in Castile.

The dome where pleasure holds her midnight reign Here, richly decked, admits the gorgeous train: Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.

It has even been considered to be a blank cheque for the Government of India to re-establish the reign of terror if they chose.

So, in our age, too prone to sport with pain, Might soft humanity resume her reign; Pride without rancour feel th' objected fault, And folly blush, as willing to be taught; Critics grow mild, life's witty warfare cease, And true good-nature breathe the balm of peace.

But he was now a timid old man, and perhaps did not care to prolong his reign by massacre of his people.

Seven or eight li to the west of the city there is what is called the King's new monastery, the building of which took eighty years, and extended over three reigns.

The fact is, the compromise alluded to, instead of effecting a union, rendered it impracticable; unless by the term union are to understand the absolute reign of the slaveholding power over the whole country, to the prostration of Northern rights.

The officer dined with Steinmetz, and under the careful treatment of that diplomatist inaugurated a reign of military autocracy, which varied pleasingly between strict discipline and boyish neglect.

You'd think no fools disgraced the former reign, Did not some grave examples yet remain, Who scorn a lad should teach his father skill, And, having once been wrong, will be so still.

He never pretended to penetration, but his foresight, 'if he gave it the reign, would not prognosticate much felicity to the country from the madness of his father, and the probable regency of the Prince of Wales.

A scientist, perhaps, who would reveal to the world something of the eternal truth; or a great captain, who would confer glory on his country; or, still better, one of those shepherds of the people who appease the passions and bring about the reign of justice.

Next Persius comes, born 34 A.D., the friend of Lucian and Seneca in the time of Nero, who painted the vices of his age as it was passing to that degradation which marked the reign of Domitian, when Juvenal appeared.

He had not enjoyed his reign, and he retired in an ill humor, which was not without some excuse.

Elliston's tenancy of the Olympic preceded his reign at Drury Lane.

In this manner ended the reign of Henry VI, a monarch who while in his cradle had been proclaimed king both of France and England, and who began his life with the most splendid prospects that any prince in Europe had ever enjoyed.

I saw that reign of blind death, I saw the distracted victims fall around me in crowds.

" This was a faith that could lead to no good; but it clearly denoted how far the boldest designs, the most ample means, and the most vaulting ambition, fall short of giving that sublime consciousness of power and its fruits that distinguish the reign of Omnipotence.

The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and the bishops of Winchester, which had been preserved from older times, were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bede; but it is when it reaches the reign of Alfred that the chronicle suddenly widens into the vigorous narrative, full of life and originality, that marks the gift of a new power to the English tongue.

Ev'n here Content has fixed her smiling reign 1815.]

the multitude saw the blind man open his eyes, and they rejoiced, such splendid miracles should signalize the reign of our Emperor Antoninus.

The Seat of Desolation, void of Light, Save what the glimmring of those livid Flames Casts pale and dreadful The Shout of the whole Host of fallen Angels when drawn up in Battel Array: The universal Host up sent A Shout that tore Hells Concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

is thy force confess'd; Still wider spreads thy horrid reign, I feel thy pow'r usurp my breast.

Are the archives of the steel yard, in succeeding reigns (if haply they survive the fury of our envious enemies) showing that we flourished in prime repute, as merchants, down to the period of the commonwealth, nothing?

One has only to consider for a moment the French writers of this period, Pascal, Bossuet, Fénelon, Malherbe, Corneille, Racine, Molière,all that brilliant company which makes the reign of Louis XIV the Elizabethan Age of French literature,to see how far astray the early writers of the Restoration went in their wretched imitation.

151 Verbs to Use for the Word  reigns