Hiero, dying in 467, was succeeded by his brother Thrasybulus, who, after a short reign of eight months, was expelled for his cruelty by the Syracusans and the confederate cities.
After a short reign of eight months he was carried off by a sudden disorder; and the army proclaimed Fl.
Claudius Tacitus, the worthiest of the senators, was unfortunately seventy-five years old, and perished after a short reign of six months, in an expedition against the Goths.
M117 Hence it is probable that in some races and at some periods of history it would be easy to find men willing to accept a kingdom on condition of being killed at the end of a short reign.
M154) To the view that in early times, and among barbarous races, kings have frequently been put to death at the end of a short reign, it may be objected that such a custom would tend to the extinction of the royal family.
M107 In other races and other ages many men may have been willing to accept a kingdom on condition of being killed at the end of a short reign.
He was killed in an ambuscade of the enemy, in the fiftieth year of his age, after a short reign of two years and six months.
He died in the forty-fifth year of his age, after a short reign of about five years.
Such was the merited death of Calig'ula, in the 29th year of his age, after a short reign of not four years.
In a short reign of two years Titus won the title, the "Delight of Mankind.
Nerva died after a short reign of sixteen months, and the sceptre passed into the stronger hands of the able commander Trajan, whom Nerva had previously made his associate in the government.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "short reign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
