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Usage examples of kings.

Mademoiselle de la Valliere, it belongs to kings to repair the want of opportunity, and most delightedly do I undertake to repair, in your instance, and with the least possible delay, the wrongs of fortune toward you.

And when all your requisitions are satisfied, I will still repeat, that you surpass kings and M.

All my life through have I maintained that kings are above all other men, not only from their rank and power, but from their nobleness of heart and their true dignity of mind.

I have never inflicted the slightest wrong or injury on any one in this world, and kings even are still my debtors.

And learn from me, sire, that bad kings are hated by their people, and poor kings are driven ignominiously away.

Lebrun had painted on the vaulted ceiling the happy, as well as disagreeable, dreams with which Morpheus affects kings as well as other men.

I am one of those who think that the parts which kings and powerful nobles are called upon to act are infinitely of more worth than the parts of beggars or lackeys.

For, in short, you must admit that it is sufficiently strange to be born the grandson of a king, to have made war against kings, to have been reckoned among the powers of the age, to have maintained my rank, to feel Henry IV.

Only there were then privileges for the sons of kings, to whom nobody refused to become a creditor, whether from respect, devotedness, or a persuasion that they would some day be paid.

Several of the early Celtic kings of legend had the title, and the best known to us is Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur.

Cymbeline may be boasting here that Britain has had kings, and therefore civilization, longer than Rome.

For two centuries they fought the Celts, and little by little, Britain, the island of such legendary kings as Lear and such dimly historical ones as Cymbeline, was converted into Anglo-Saxon England.

It was customary for the early Scandinavian kings to be known by some distinguishing characteristic.

Scottish kings were crowned while sitting on it, until Edward I of England seized it in 1296 and carried it back to London.

Ever since then the Stone of Scone has been under the coronation throne in Westminster and English kings have been crowned on it.