1 But no man ventured directly to gainsay a pledge filled to the health of the reigning monarch.
2 I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun.
3 To my certain knowledge he has acted on behalf of three of the reigning houses of Europe in very vital matters.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 4 , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO... 5 To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of monasticism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME 6 A very neat toilet table in the reigning style.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 7 The less zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover.
8 reigning king, and those given by the Americans that of the.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 9 A Dervish, or Turkish priest, drew his scimitar on Bajazet, father of the Sultan now reigning, and if he did not wound him, it was from no lack either of daring or of opportunity.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 10 The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 11 This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 12 Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, reigned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 13 The same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 14 The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena on the horizon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 15 Madeleine had reigned over all and directed all.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430