One of these princes was called the Captain of Kill-Ultagh.
And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his dominions shall be great.
And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble.
Beyond question, the distracted ambitions of several German Princes have been kindled by Belleisle; what we called the rotten thatch of Germany is well on fire.
Footnote: This prophecy is introduced by Ariosto in this place to compliment the noble house of Este, the princes of his native state, the dukedom of Ferrara.
Charlemagne approved this advice, and sent two chevaliers to demand the two young princes of their mother.
When the two had taken their stand on the border of the field among the crowd the princes and ladies of the court began to assemble.
At sight of the ring the chief attendant led Huon to the head of the hall, and introduced him to the Sultan and his princes as the ambassador of Charlemagne.
He knew that Floriac loved Christians and the princes of his native land too well to aid in any treason to one of them; he therefore feigned great pleasure at hearing of the arrival of the eldest born of his family at his court.
Then he led his nephew into his palace, and introduced him to all the Cardinals and Princes of Rome as the Duke of Guienne, son of the Duchess Alice, his sister.
Were these legends formed by a process of degradation; did they begin with telling about the gods, and were they afterwards applied to heroes and princes and common men?
The Shu-king, or Book of History, contains speeches and documents of the early princesfrom the twenty-fourth to the eighth century B.
In the earlier sources Zarathustra composes his hymns in a natural manner; he is not an absolute lawgiver, but depends on princesfor the carrying out of his views.
This is a divining book; it consists of a set of interpretations by princes of the twelfth century B.
The world has so many learned bishops, so many grey-headed grandees, so many councils and senates, why is not recourse had to their authority, and the childish quarrels of princes settled by their wise and decisive arbitration?
The chief causes which induce men to massacre in all loyalty thousands of their brothers and to expose their own people to the most terrible misery, are the ambitions and {367} jealousies of princes and their ministers.
War was no longer attributed to the pretended interests of princes or to the caprices of their advisers.
Toleration had been tried by the Valois princes in France.
To obey the Queen of Egypt, the princes of Syria erected a cross on a high mountain, and they caused Jesus to die on this cross.
Maximilian of Bavaria only roused strenuous opposition on the part of Calvinist princes such as Frederick IV.
Denmark was vain, the jealousy felt by the Catholic princes of Wallenstein and the skill of Gustavus Adolphus caused the total failure of these ambitious schemes.
The Protestant princes in the north of Germany were ready to ally with France and Sweden against the emperor, even the Catholic Bavarian duke was to prove a doubtful ally of the Habsburg house.
Their confidential position in the harems of princesfrequently enabled them to exercise an important influence over their royal masters, and even to raise themselves to stations of great trust and power (see HAREM).
The jealousies existing among the German princes and the overthrow of Austria at Austerlitz enabled Napoleon to carry out a revolution in Germany according to his own ideas.
France the Fronde was holding its own against Mazarin; in Germany the princeshad triumphed over the emperor; even in Russia the nobles were aiming at the curtailment of the power of the crown.
By that peace the practical independence of the German princes was assured.
The nailing by Luther of his ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg church, followed by the decisions of the diet of Worms in 1521, led to a rapid development of Lutheran opinions among the princes of the north of Germany.
Hail to thee, land, whose king is noble, And whose princes eat in due season!
Wo, land, to thee whose king is a child, And whose princes feast in the early morning!
Slaves have I beheld on horseback, And princes trudging on foot.
So many of these princes of the Church looked down on the mendicant friars.
After all, even the princes of the Church would have to stretch their purses for these.
Manfred could attack the pope whenever he wished, but he does not do so because he fears that the other princes of Europe would then attack him.
At least mine are legitimate, unlike the offspring of certain other princes of the Church.
We must soon decide whether it be God's will that Christian princes join with the Tartars and aid them in their war against the Saracens, or whether we should forbid this alliance with pagans.
They have had to put up with the princes of the Church for so long that they are a good deal less awed by them.
I have it in mind to buyprinces of the Church, not to sell jewelry to them.
The princes of the Church quarrel among themselves like ordinary men.
You, my son, are young and brave; you will not suffer her to continue in this state, she who is the pearl of Hyderabad, who has found favour in the sight of princes and nobles.
On either side of us were the graves of princes and nobles, many of them of elegant forms and richly carved; but the building itself engrossed my entire admiration.
From that time till 1810, although native princes now and then discovered and executed the perpetrators,--I believe it was unknown to the British government or authorities.
Yet if the flatteries of princes pleased, she was to be better pleased soon, and the Duke of Monmouth seem scarcely higher to her than Simon Dale.
What was it to throw in a trifle on either side, barter Barbara Quinton against the French lady, and content two Princes at a price so low as the dishonour of two ladies?
Neither his Catholic majesty nor the confederated princes should treat with the most Christian King, either directly or indirectly.
The following communications from two of the nativeprinces who lately consented to put a stop to this rite, will show you that this is the case.
Within the last three years, twenty-three of the princes just alluded to, have issued orders for its abolishment throughout their dominions.
In the marriage of great princes pearls are sometimes used instead of rice.
The queen's brother and his wife are to be godfather and godmother, and there'll be lots of princes and princesses besides.
How glorious it is, that there are princes on earth who realize our ideal of the perfect man.
Princes are right when they abuse their fellow-creatures, for even the best of men are naught but polite shadows.
Yes, but princes have a much harder time of it than we, for theirs is a far greater responsibility.
Just asprinces treat their inferiors and regard their service as a right, so, in turn, do courtiers abuse those who are under them.
Princes are not to blame for this ladder of nonsense.
And yet they persist in saying that, in our age, princes are not deceived.
Gunther went on to explain: "In this play, there is a pathos of despair which reaches its climax in the final question: 'Is it not enough thatprinces are men?
Travellers do indeed relate that, in certain parts of India, there are princes at whose courts even civilians are armed.
Improbable as it is that a man uniting to the same degree as Hyder-Ali did political and military genius, will appear in the world again for centuries; most of the princes are politic, some are brave, and perhaps no few are credulous.
Think, O my brother, how many courts there are in Italy: are the princes more fortunate than you?
Princes never pity but when they would make traitors: then their hearts grow tenderer than tripe.
There is supposed to be a happy valley in Abyssinia where the royal princes are confined in total seclusion, but with ample supplies for every conceivable want.
The wild lily, which the women used to burn in their ovens never thinking of its beauty, was to him something finer than King Solomon, and he probably had seen Herodian princes on the Galilean roads.
But, about the age of forty, he resolved "to let the gentlemen of the jury rest in peace--tyrants enough having been arraigned and princes enough eulogized.
The larger merchants who regulated the wool traffic were prosperous, and so too the landowners and princes whose property thus increased in value.
Born with a fine natural taste, he had improved it by study, until Rubens could say of him: 'The Prince of Wales is the best amateur of painting of all the princes in the world.
Each of these princes employed several artists to illuminate books for him in the most splendid way; they built magnificent chateaux, and had tapestries and paintings made to decorate their walls.
These fourprinces gave an important impulse to the production of beautiful things in France, Burgundy, and Flanders, but it is needless to burden you with the artists' names.
That required money, and hitherto even princes had rarely been rich.
Hundreds of days, on thousands of trips like this, the princes of the Comstock have risked their own lives in the perils of the yawning pits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "princes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
