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Usage examples of emperors.

Choniates, former court orator, supreme judge of the empire, judge of the Veil, logthete of secrets oras the Latins would have saidchancellor of the basileus of Byzantium as well as historian of many Comneni and Angelus emperors, regarded with curiosity the man facing him.

The Chinese emperors had kept the secret of the workings of time for centuries.

East Third Avenue in Kyoto stood the Cloister Palace, to which the emperors retired upon abdication.

For three hundred years and more the benevolent rule of our emperors did away with the death penalty.

To seal their bond with the imperial family they gave their fairest daughters in marriage to the emperors and princes, and none but the offspring of these alliances ascended the throne.

As their influence waned, there developed among them a struggle for power in which the question of imperial succession created a state of conflict that became felt in every stratum of society, and in the growing disorder some emperors even attempted to restore authority to the throne.

In all my years at the court of these emperors I have learned to extricate myself from the traps of masters of deceit far more sly than you By your own confession, you no longer know who you are, perhaps because you have told too many lies, even to yourself.

They arose while the Germanic emperors were engaged in other matters, and they have grown and taken advantage of the absence of their princes.

Even emperors are human beings, and history is also the story of their weaknesses.

Even if our emperors always enjoyed showing foreign visitors strange machines and miraculous automata, I never saw anyone use those machines to kill.

And high priestesses, like Roman emperors, were chosen by their followers on the basis of merit, not bloodlines.

He knew in theory that most emperors did not reign long, but Probus was the only emperor he could really remember, a man who in his rare moments of leisure had played board games with the child.

But it might just work, if all four of the emperors remained loyal to each other.

Licinius was now his brother-in-law, but the pact the two emperors had made did not last long.

The white columns of the healing baths built on the shore by the first emperors gleamed in the summer sunlight, but we halted in a shady grove in the lee of a hill, and the slaves began to lay out our meal.