He was at once married with great grandeur to the princess and promised the succession to the kingdom.
Then in succession he was attacked by the bull and the buffalo and the elephant, but he killed them all and cut off their heads.
Cadoc was also founded under the direction of Germanus and Catog, who preferred a life of study and religion to succession to his father's principality.
The way across the plain from Montmartre to the place of burial was marked by a succession of crosses, and the field where the Saint's remains were laid subsequently became the precincts of the famous abbey.
The succession has consisted of one hundred and nine bishops and fifteen archbishops, eight of whom have been raised to the dignity of Cardinal.
The Murchisons at one time kept a cow in the barn, till a succession of "girls" left on account of the milking, and the lane was useful as an approach to the backyard by the teams that brought the cordwood in the winter.
The due successionof folkways, mores, character, and ethics is here broken.
The humanist needed to know how to carry a great erudition and to endure a succession of various positions and occupations.
For four or five centuries a succession of "prophets" developed the antagonism between the Jahveh religion and heathenism.
At least we shall find that the current commonplace of the economists about the succession of natural economy, money economy, and credit economy, is not even remotely apt to the real problems.
The Chinese on Formosa practice female infanticide, "in cases of a succession of girls in a family.
Whistler held a successionof receptions at Prince's Gate.
Henry Beaufort was translated to Winchester in 1404, in succession to William Wykeham.
The afternoon's ride had been extremely beautiful, our route taking us through what seemed a succession of gardens.
He gave Signor Damiani's letter to Mr George Canning, first Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, soliciting him to appoint young Damiana British Consul at Jaffa, in succession to his father.
In quick succession six or eight more blows followed the first, when, bringing into requisition the little knowledge of the "gloves" obtained in boyhood, we succeeded in warding them off.
To pass rapidly in review the little that is known of Shakespeare's life is, nevertheless, to be impressed not only by its incessant and amazing literary fertility but by the quick succession of its salient incidents.
For more than twelve hundred years the succession of the Archbishops of Canterbury has remained substantially unbroken.
Each of the pictures is presented in such rapid succession that the object appears to move, just as the scenes thrown on the screen by a lantern show action.
They should so appear in the geological diagrams made to illustrate the succession of life.
Here we have a succession of 1,500 feet of beds, some of which must have been formed under very peculiar and exceptional conditions.
It is curious that in the line of succession above stated, the beautiful tubulated cell-wall of Eozoon disappears; and this structure seems, after the Laurentian, to be for ever divorced from the great laminated Protozoans.
To this it seems to me that the study of the succession of life yields no uncertain reply.
It is not too much to say that these and similar discoveries, while they serve to bridge over gaps in the succession of organic beings, do not favour the theory of slow modification of types.
This rapid progress of discovery has, however, invalidated few of the statements made in the first edition, and has certainly established nothing against the general laws of the succession of life as stated in this work.
And for no short time had the execrable succession lasted, for fifteen generations (as I may call them)[374] had already passed in this wickedness.
More important still, he was not of the coarbial stock; with his entry into the see the scandal of hereditary succession would come to an end.
The Hereditary Successionof the Coarbs Of Patrick.
Thus the successioncannot have been established before the death of Joseph (936).
Christian, bishop of Clogher, was probably appointed bishop of that diocese in succession to Cinaeth Ua Baigill, who died in 1135 (A.
The abuse of hereditarysuccession had not disappeared with his appointment.
There are other documents of high authority which must be taken into account: the contemporary record of the succession of coarbs of Patrick in the Book of Leinster, and the copy of a similar record in the Yellow Book of Lecan.
There is no evidence that a new bishop was consecrated for Waterford in successionto Malchus: this indeed is unlikely.
In quick successioncome half a dozen more, some bursting on the ruined cottages as they strike, some bursting above them in the air.
A succession of shells came streaming in, shattering every yard of the front line with tearing explosions.
The actual physical concussion, apart altogether from the mental terror, caused by the bursting of a succession of large shells in a man's vicinity, temporarily robs him of the use of his thinking faculties.
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
Lines of white flowers all following one another in regular succession formed long parabolas like star-rockets on the azure-coloured earth.
Several times he struck his foot, for the ground had various levels of unequal height, which formed a succession of apartments, as it were, in the room.
William himself died just as hostilities were beginning, but the long War of the Spanish Succession was carried on vigorously by the great English general, the duke of Marlborough, and the Austrian commander, Eugene of Savoy.
At the close of the War of the Spanish Succession her navy was superior to that of any other European power, for both France and Holland had been greatly weakened by the long conflict.
Charles immediately left Germany, and for nearly ten years was occupied outside it with the government of Spain and a succession of wars.
None of them offered a longsuccession of able rulers.
Jane died a few days after her son's birth, and later Henry married in succession three other women who are historically unimportant since they left no children as claimants for the crown.
Since the diet at Worms the emperor had resided in Spain, busied with a succession of wars carried on with the king of France.
After a succession of troubles a compromise was at last reached in the Concordat of Worms (1122), which put an end to the controversy over investitures in Germany.
He had joined in the War of the Spanish Succession in order to maintain the "balance of power" between the various European countries.
Soon after the close of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748, England entered upon a series of wars which were destined profoundly to affect not only her position, but also the fate of distant portions of the globe.
Sidenote: Question of the successionto the French throne.
Charles was able, before his death in 741, to secure the succession to his office of mayor of the palace for his two sons, Pippin and Carloman.
Then again there was silence, broken by a succession of long sniffs and snorts of tremendous volume and energy.
Concerning the Roman diocese, the Encyclopædia Britannica says, "Before the termination of the third century the office was held to be of such importance that its succession was a matter of interest to ecclesiastics living in distant sees.
This succession of faithful, holy, devoted men is worthy of a place in Apocalyptic vision.
This king over them signifies a succession of rulers, and they are well described as "the angel of the bottomless pit," for that is the very place where the delusion is said to have originated.
His Letter to Windham frankly leaves us to understand that in Queen Anne's reign the possible succession of James II.
The danger of the succession and the badness of the peace were the two principles on which we were attacked.
Advancing slowly and continuously with the head of the column, to give time for the regiments in succession to close up their ranks, we first encountered a party of the enemy retreating along a cluster of pines.
She herself speaks of her life as a succession of crosses and humiliations.
Then it was taken up in succession by Roger Bacon, Vitellio, and Kepler.
Spirit of turpentine is poured into the pipette; it descends, issues from the end in minute drops, which rise in succession to the surface.
They weaken in succession the violet, the indigo, the blue, and even disturb the proportions of green.
Instead of being an unbroken succession of colours from red to violet, the carbon-vapour would yield a few bands of colour with spaces of darkness between them.
The particles in front reach in succession the crest of the wave, and as soon as the crest is past they begin to fall.
Specimens of quartz have been found which require the analyzer to be turned from left to right to obtain the same succession of colours.
Throwing a small and concentrated spectrum upon a screen, by means of an endless screw we move the rectangular pile through the entire spectrum, and determine in succession the thermal power of all its colours.
