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Example sentences for "emperor"

Lexicographically close words:
empaled; empanelled; empathic; empathy; empecher; emperors; emperour; empery; empescher; emphasis
  1. God, the Pope, and the Emperor were alone to be recognised as having authority.

  2. Finding the state of the case, the Emperor exclaimed: "Rid me of them again!

  3. A tremendous panic seized all the privileged classes, from the Emperor to the knight.

  4. The previous year, 1504, Jacob and his brothers had been ennobled by the Emperor Maximilian, Jacob himself being made Imperial Councillor.

  5. The mock Emperor is dead," so the phrase went, "and the mock Pope will soon be dead also.

  6. The Emperor assenting, there at once arose a great noise outside the window.

  7. The Emperor ultimately intervened, and effected a compromise.

  8. Then came the King of the Romans; and, as the apex of the whole, the Pope in one function and the Emperor in another crowned the edifice.

  9. Weinmarkt in Augsburg, he burnt the overdue "acceptances" of the Emperor on a large fire of cinnamon, at that time one of the most costly spices.

  10. The Emperor hath installed a provost, who hath drowned, hanged, and murdered over a hundred men.

  11. Then was there a Council held that they should pray the Emperor to the end that Jews might be driven forth.

  12. The first Emperor of the Manchu line originated the scheme, but it has been greatly extended by his successors.

  13. On the accession of an emperor he at once adds his name to the long list.

  14. The reply of the Emperor to the invitation of his "good brother," as published in the Journal, excited universal admiration.

  15. During their eight months' pilgrimage they were goaded to despair by hunger, weariness, and savage enemies; and when they at last found shelter in the dominions of the Emperor of China, they had been reduced to half their number.

  16. In the dawn of Chinese history allusions are made to a great flood which desolated the land, and the Emperor Yaou has been immortalised for his achievements in subduing and regulating the waters.

  17. When the Emperor takes his place in the small pavilion the gates of the arches are thrown open, and through them he can see afar off the altar of Heaven, or the Dragon throne, as you may please to call it.

  18. The Queen's order in council which permitted him to serve the Emperor of China was withdrawn, and the "ever victorious" army has been disbanded, with what consequences the future will disclose.

  19. But their feelings of loyalty to the Emperor may possibly warp their judgment.

  20. Great numbers of lamas reside permanently in these monasteries, which are supported by contributions from the people, or endowed by the Emperor of China.

  21. The Emperor Kienloong allotted to them a settlement in the province of Dsungaria, on the north-west of the desert.

  22. It is certain that the Emperor was liberally disposed towards the Poles; but they aspired, not to greater liberty, but to absolute independence of Russia.

  23. This is not a matter of easy accomplishment, however, as the men from whom the Emperor is entitled to look for support are themselves directly interested in the continuance of the old system of universal peculation.

  24. The Emperor has just asked Miss Mowbray to teach him some old-fashioned Scotch or English air (I'm afraid I don't quite know the difference!

  25. No, there's nothing left but to go home; and the Emperor of Rhaetia must be told that Virginia of Baumenburg-Drippe has decided not to marry.

  26. He sha'n't escape his humiliation, though," the Emperor told himself.

  27. You might have tried cutting the Emperor out.

  28. Fool, those orders are not for us; and it is the Emperor who will go in.

  29. He had intended to convey the impression which the Emperor had received, but he had not clothed it in actual statement.

  30. I could not let you go back to your own land with the idea that we do not love the noblest Emperor country ever had.

  31. How could he dream that the flirtations or the visits of a Miss Jenny Brett could be of the slightest importance to the Emperor of Rhaetia?

  32. He might even have to go so far as to bribe Egon to kidnap the girl and sacrifice himself by marrying her out of hand, before she had a chance to learn that the Emperor was ready to meet her demands.

  33. The Emperor had expected to see that figure; but vaguely he wished there were not so much briskness and self-confidence in the set of the massive head and shoulders.

  34. Egon had not heard Miss Mowbray spoken of as an heiress, therefore, even had there been no Emperor in the way, he would not have worshiped at the shrine.

  35. At sight of her the Emperor stopped on the threshold.

  36. Emperor sighed; "The country is his idol--the country with all the old traditions.

  37. The Emperor realized, what he had not noticed until this moment, that the train was slackening speed as it approached the suburbs of a town.

  38. At sight of the Emperor off came the famous hat, baring the bald dome of the fine old head, fringed with hair of curiously mingled black and white.

  39. So ended Yuan Shi-kai's great plot to make himself an emperor over four hundred millions of people, a plot which could only have been carried out in China.

  40. This delayed his plans only temporarily, and Yuan's agents pushed the work of making him emperor more actively than ever, with the result that the throne was tendered to him by the "unanimous vote of the people.

  41. The Emperor was greatly elated over von Hintze's performance and offered him the appointment of Minister to China if he could reach Peking in the same way that he had traveled to Berlin.

  42. For twenty years he had plotted for the throne; he had been emperor for one hundred miserable days; and now he was watching, impotently, his dream-castles crumble beneath his feet.

  43. He had decided to quit, and one hundred days after he became emperor elect he issued a mandate canceling the monarchy and restoring the republic.

  44. Yuan Shi-kai was president of the Republic, but the hope of his heart was to be emperor of China.

  45. At this time he might well have made a coup d'état and proclaimed himself emperor with hardly a shadow of resistance, but with the hereditary caution of the Chinese he preferred to wait and plot and scheme.

  46. For by Troy's fall it plainly doth appear That neither king nor emperor hath here "A permanent estate to trust unto.

  47. The Emperor of Britain, The Triumphant Lord of France, The Conqueror of his enemies and of himself, Henry V.

  48. He had run away to sea when--well, Napoleon was Emperor of the French when he ran away to sea.

  49. One might almost imagine that our august emperor of the seasons, the Indian Summer, protracting his reign against all the wishes of the gods, stirring up the implacable bitterness and hatred of winter, had gone down suddenly in ruin and death.

  50. The pope or the emperor may shine as lofty titles, as splendid images,--but they are unable to command, and no one is willing to obey!

  51. The French Emperor saw in the disruption of the United States a vindication of his own usurpation and an opportunity to plant an Imperial Government under his own guidance in Mexico.

  52. At his interviews with the Emperor Ming Huang in A.

  53. The Emperor Hsien Yüan, having abdicated the throne, sent for Chu Jung, and bestowed upon him the crown.

  54. Like so many other Chinese deities, the five were all ministers of the tyrant emperor Chou.

  55. The Cask of Pearls Fearing to be admonished for the fraud by another of his ministers, the scholar Wang Tan, the Emperor resolved to put a golden gag in his mouth.

  56. The legend relates that the Empress Ts'ao, wife of the Emperor Jên Tsung (A.

  57. When the French established themselves in Malta, a number of the Knights took refuge in St. Petersburg, and there elected the emperor to the post even before Von Hompesch had formally resigned the office.

  58. Emperor of Russia, when he was chosen Grand Master of the order, under peculiar circumstances.

  59. The writers of that period tell us that two hundred thousand men were transported to Rhodes from Constantinople, commanded by the emperor in person.

  60. Tripoli was indeed a white elephant, to speak figuratively, but the emperor was persistent,--the three dependencies must go together.

  61. The tomb is the great leveler; the emperor and his humblest subject must alike crumble to dust.

  62. The successor of this unknightly leader of the order was the Emperor Paul I.

  63. Malta was deeded by the Emperor Charles V.

  64. Both were answerable to the supreme authority--the emperor at Rome.

  65. The discouraged emperor gladly met many of his enemies half way.

  66. At the age of 26 he went to Rome like Philo, to intercede with the Emperor Nero for some of his brethren, falsely charged by the procurator, Felix.

  67. Mohammed, to name him by the title that he afterwards acquired, was born in Mecca, five years after the Byzantine emperor Justinian, and belonged to a branch of the powerful Koreish tribe.

  68. Serious charges were brought against this tyrant; so serious that the emperor recalled him to Rome and deposed him.

  69. The kindly disposed emperor would have given the kingdom to his son, but he was dissuaded by his counselors.

  70. The Temple offerings for the Roman emperor were stopped--that was, so to speak, the official renunciation of their allegiance.

  71. At last, having done all the mischief he could, this creature was recalled in 60 by Emperor Nero.

  72. For this emperor did not endorse the new religion, but accepted the old Roman cult of the Pantheon, though in its most idealized form, preferring to purify instead of abolishing it.

  73. Although Vitellius was now made emperor of Rome, the armies in Egypt and Palestine decided to nominate Vespasian.

  74. The monks now urged the triumphant emperor to extirpate the Jews from Palestine.

  75. He made an eloquent plea, assuring the emperor of Jewish loyalty.

  76. It was attempted by the Emperor Caligula, but failed.

  77. While the emperor retains his throne as a symbol of national unity, elected politicians - with heavy input from bureaucrats and business executives - wield actual decisionmaking power.

  78. As Wilson wrote: "The possibility that we have in the Emperor penguin the nearest approach to a primitive form not only of a penguin but of a bird makes the future working out of its embryology a matter of the greatest possible importance.

  79. The Emperor Penguins nursing their Chicks on the Sea-ice, with the cliffs of the Barrier behind.

  80. Emperor with long curved beak, bright orange head-wear and powerful flippers, a personality of 6½ stones.

  81. In the largest Emperor embryo feather papillae occur all over the hind-quarters and on the legs to within a short distance of the tarsal joint.

  82. All these warnings were an open book to the Emperor penguins, and if one knew the truth there probably were many others too.

  83. But those days were a Sunday School treat compared to our days of blind-man's buff with the Emperor penguins among the crevasses of Cape Crozier.

  84. And always we got towards the Emperor penguins, and it really began to look as if we were going to do it this time, when we came up against a wall of ice which a single glance told us we could never cross.

  85. Part of the bay in which the Emperor Penguins lay their eggs is visible.

  86. The Emperor penguin, weighing six stones and more, seems to me to have a very much harder fight for life than the little Adélie.

  87. We also wanted oil for our blubber stove, and they killed and skinned three birds--an Emperor weighs up to 6½ stones.

  88. Why is the embryo of the Emperor penguin so important to Science?

  89. Relatively to the senators the emperor was technically only "first among equals"; he was the first senator, as well as the first man of the state.

  90. In our year of grace 64, although the throne is occupied by a vicious emperor suffering from megalomania and enormous self-conceit, the empire is in full enjoyment of its pax Romana.

  91. Emperor Nero was at the height of his folly and tyranny, and, so far as our information goes, the Apostle Paul was journeying about the Roman world in the interval between his first and second imprisonments in the capital.

  92. They and the emperor form a partnership in authority, but the Senate is very distinctly the junior partner.

  93. But an emperor could meanwhile raise to the "order" anyone he chose.

  94. At night there was no lighting, except when, at some great festival, illuminations might be made by order of the emperor for a whole night or perhaps a series of nights.

  95. It must not be supposed that there never was friction between emperor and Senate.

  96. That emperor is Nero; and even stronger and saner emperors than Nero watched suspiciously the behaviour of aspiring men.

  97. In any one of his provinces the emperor would be its governor, and would exercise the usual military and civil powers of a governor.

  98. The actual outcome of this system was that the provinces of the emperor were on the whole better administered than those of the Senate.

  99. The two boxes are approached from the stage, and when the emperor is present he is seated in the one to the spectators' left.

  100. Of course His Highness the Head of the State is graciously pleased to approve the choice of the Senate; which means that the Senate will not attempt any appointment which the emperor would dislike.

  101. I am inclined to believe it, considering the individual to whom it was addressed, a premeditated declaration that our Emperor expected a universal war, was prepared for it, and was certain of its fortunate issue.

  102. He is considered by military men as greatly superior to most of the generals now employed by the Emperor of Germany.

  103. The Emperor of Russia would not have been so well represented here, had he not been so wisely served and advised in his council chamber at St. Petersburg.

  104. This request is such as might have been expected from our Emperor and his Minister.

  105. To this was replied that, having obtained an indulgence in toto for what was past, he was a proper subject; above all, as he had the protection of the Emperor of the French.

  106. I have seen the Emperor Paul, who was also an amateur of ribands and stars, but never with so many at once.

  107. When Fouche asked him what he meant by such rebellious behaviour, he replied that it was only a trial to see whether destiny had intended him to become an Emperor or to remain a cobbler.

  108. Since the legislative corps has completed the Napoleon code of civil and criminal justice, it is considered by the Emperor not only as useless, but troublesome and superfluous.

  109. A courier from Talleyrand at Strasburg to Bonaparte at Ulm was ordered to pass by the corps under the command of Marmont, to whom, in case the Emperor had advanced too far into Germany, he was to deliver his papers.

  110. All this made the Japanese rub their eyes with astonishment, and by and by the Emperor heard of it.

  111. In that time he had made himself Emperor of the French and dictator of Europe, and become one of the greatest figures in universal history.

  112. Pardon, monsieur le capitaine, but I'm a soldier of the emperor, and the emperor would shoot me as a traitor if I parted with my uniform to an Englishman.

  113. It is possible that as soon as the dragoons of General Millet arrive in Spain, the Emperor will send them on to you.

  114. It diverted the emperor from his immediate purpose of conquest, and engaged his huge armies in a fruitless and exhausting chase; it gave Spain time to bethink herself and rise as a nation.

  115. The Emperor is of opinion that with the division of Merle and the division of Mouton, together with the four regiments of cavalry, nothing can resist you.

  116. No; the emperor would call me a pig if I got drunk before my work was over.

  117. What he read was as follows:-- "I read to the Emperor your letter of the 4th of December, which was brought by one of your officers.

  118. The thought that they had baffled the great emperor was delightful to the British troops: they never doubted that Napoleon had seen he was beaten by Johnny Moore, and had run away in sheer petulance and chagrin.

  119. But both Charles and Ferdinand were summoned to meet Napoleon at Bayonne; there they were in turn tricked into resigning the sovereignty, which the emperor at once bestowed on his brother Joseph.

  120. Why, the emperor is at this moment marching south, and my bag here is stuffed with bulletins of his victories.

  121. There were twenty thousand men in Valladolid: they were about to march for Segovia; and the emperor himself was coming southward at the head of an army.

  122. What do you mean by keeping an officer of the emperor waiting while you serve a beggarly tradesman?

  123. If I drank more now, I should get drunk; and if I got drunk the emperor would call me a pig, and I should deserve it.

  124. I am delighted to make the acquaintance of one who, as the marshal informs me, has done good service to the emperor and to France, and, let us hope, to Spain.

  125. The sword which the Emperor has sent for shall be inferior to none of these; the smith may set his heart at rest.

  126. The Emperor is the ship, and his subjects the water.

  127. Now it happened that on the 6th day of the 3rd month of the 36th year of the reign of the Emperor Suiko (A.

  128. The time of the plot is laid in the reign of the Emperor Uda the Second (A.

  129. The last of the Nô was The Little Smith, the scene of which is laid in the reign of the Emperor Ichijô (A.

  130. Taima no Kéhaya, a noble of great stature and strength, boasting that there was not his match under heaven, begged the Emperor that his strength might be put to the test.

  131. The Emperor Mommu, who reigned at the end of the same century, was the first emperor who took part in the sport.

  132. Hada Kawakatsu, a man born in Japan, but of Chinese extraction, was commanded by the Emperor to arrange an entertainment for the propitiation of the gods and the prosperity of the country.

  133. Hachiman is the name under which the Emperor Ojin (A.

  134. Three centuries later, during the reign of the Emperor Toba (A.

  135. The worshipper, awe-struck, declares that he must return to Kiôto and tell the Emperor what he has seen.

  136. When the Emperor of Byzantium heard of me he left his porphyry chamber and set sail in his galleys.

  137. I have heard the boatmen say that the Emperor has a daughter who wears a cloak of purple.

  138. The preachers and writers of the Church denounced them with the most unqualified vehemence, and the poet Prudentius made a direct and earnest appeal to the emperor to suppress them.

  139. This emperor desired to restrict the distribution of corn to three or four times a year, but, yielding to the popular wish, he at last consented that it should continue monthly.

  140. In Antioch the Christians assembled in the theatres and in the churches, to celebrate with rejoicing the death which their emperor had met in fighting against the enemies of his country.

  141. An obscure centurion, he rose by a military revolt to the supreme power, and the Emperor Maurice, with his family, fell into his hands.

  142. Volcanoes were the portals of hell, and a hermit had seen the soul of the Arian emperor Theodoric, as St. Eucherius afterwards did the soul of Charles Martel, carried down that in the Island of Lipari.

  143. About fifty years later, when the Monophysite controversy was at its height, the palace of the emperor at Constantinople was blockaded, the churches were besieged, and the streets commanded by furious bands of contending monks.

  144. Fascination of Hartley's doctrine of association over his mind, 29 Macrianus, persuades the Emperor Valerian to persecute the Christians, i.

  145. The sale of children in case of great necessity, though denounced by the Fathers,(39) continued long after the time of Theodosius, nor does any Christian emperor appear to have enforced the humane enactment of Diocletian.

  146. His brother had at one time been a high official in the Empire, and had fearlessly owned his Christianity under Julian; but that emperor not only did not remove him from his post, but even honoured him with his warm friendship.

  147. The Emperor is nothing to me, the Government is nothing to me.

  148. The worst of it is one can never rely upon the troops, and discipline is certainly more relaxed than usual now that the Emperor has been upset, and every Jack thinks himself as good as his master.

  149. What difference does it make to you, or to anyone as far as I see, whether the taxes are levied in the name of an Emperor or of a Republic?

  150. He listened but said nothing, and when questioned would reply, "Let us see some one do better than the Emperor before we condemn him.

  151. The proper name of the reigning emperor is considered sacred, and must be spelled differently during his life-time.

  152. Near this place is the island where the last emperor of the Sung cast himself into the sea (1280).

  153. He went to the emperor and begged him to order through the whole empire barrels in which to keep his peas.

  154. The emperor instantly understood the whole matter and said: "My dear children, I see that you ought to be husband and wife; may it prove for your good.

  155. When the emperor had fallen asleep, the beds began to creak, and amid this creaking the empress fancied she heard words that no one else understood.

  156. The emperor married a second time, and again the wedding festivities lasted three days and three nights.

  157. They drove on some distance further and met numerous flocks and herds of all sorts of animals; the emperor asked one keeper after another to whom they belonged, and all replied: "To the Pea Emperor.

  158. When the emperor saw the apple on Ileane's chest of drawers he could almost have devoured it with his eyes, it was so beautiful.

  159. If I should not die, but recover, I will ask the emperor for her hand in marriage, and if I don't kill her the first night she shall be my faithful wife according to the law.

  160. The emperor grew very thoughtful, when after a long time his sons failed to return, either with or without the wonderful bird.

  161. If the Red Emperor had been only an ordinary mortal he would have rejoiced, but he was a sovereign to boot!

  162. He went to the schools and the philosophers and gained every kind of learning, so that the emperor died of joy and came to life again.

  163. But Florea would not go; he knew by experience that the emperor was always vexed if any one asked him that question.

  164. The emperor saw with his own eyes, and that was enough.

  165. When the emperor heard her story he jumped out of bed, dressed, took the hook and line, and, gasping for breath, went to the brook.

  166. Sir Bevis was born in the reign of Edgar, and his parents were Sir Guy of Southampton, and a daughter of the King of Scotland, who was desperately in love with Sir Murdure, brother of the Emperor of Almaine.

  167. After this convincing proof he sent them forth, and conquered all the countries around him; together with the land of Catha, and then died, leaving his eldest son Chico Emperor whose grandeur made him the greatest Emperor in the World.

  168. Illustration] The Emperor being himself a spectator, he sent a messenger for our English Knight.

  169. Illustration] After this Guy made a perfect league between the Emperor and the Duke, gaining more praise thereby than by his former victories.


  170. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emperor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chief; chieftain; crown; dynast; emperor; king; majesty; monarch; overlord; paramount; potentate; prince; royal; royalty; ruler; sovereign