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Sentences ending with empire

You were speaking with enthusiasm of the splendor of the Roman Empire. [10]
If the aim was the aggrandizement of France, that might have been attained without the Revolution and without the Empire. [2]
Paris as it was in the Empire. [4]
We beheld around us, to-day, selfishness, ruthless competition, as great contrasts between misery and luxury as in the days of the Roman Empire. [9]
Then they rose until they fell upon Jebel Shamsan, in its intoxicating red and opal far away, and upon the frowning and mighty rampart that makes Aden one of the most impregnable stations of the Empire. [11]
The inspiration came to him then, when he was ennobled by the Governor-general, who represents the Empire. [9]
Stanton naturally failed to find it, and it remained for the writer of these notes, motoring up the Rhone one September day, exactly twenty-two years after the first discovery, to re-locate the vast reclining figure of the first consul of France, "dreaming of Universal Empire. [5]
We have in this island one of the worst criminals in the British Empire. [11]
It might mean the very question of England's existence as an empire. [11]
To return to the question of empire. [4]

Short sentences using empire

The empire is his debtor. [11]
But about the empire? [5]

Sentences containing empire two or more times

My authorities make the British Empire not much short of a fourth larger than the Russian Empire. [5]
Rome sent her laws and her roads to the end of the earth, and made an empire of it; but it was an empire of barbarians largely, of dynasties rather than of peoples. [4]

More example sentences with the word empire in them

Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
Of what small worth would she have seemed to him, and to herself!--When this tyranny should be overpast, when he should be gone to some other part of his immense empire, if those she loved were spared she could be happy--ah! [10]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
So originated the wide-spread custom of wearing spectacles in Germany; and as a custom once established in these old lands is imperishable, this one remains universal in the empire to this day. [5]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
It is he who has brought the Empire to its most precarious state. [9]
M. Vipsanius Agrippa, who had won an empire for Augustus, had just such a head. [9]
It is disunion which has held our empire together for centuries, and what it has done in the past it may continue to do now and in the future. [5]
Wherever commerce reigned,--and where did it not?--he was king and head of its Holy Empire, Pope and Emperor at once. [9]
Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
It was seven weeks after the first fall of the Empire, and poor Marie Louise, ex-Empress was a fugitive. [5]
My brother Geta was to reign together with me over the empire, which ought to have been mine alone as the first-born. [10]
He still speaks very often to Lucilius and his other friends of his great plans of forming a powerful empire in the East, with Alexandria as its principal city. [10]
Then he showed us the spread the Empire of China made on the map, and the room she took up in the world. [5]
Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. [7]
The philosopher pursues Truth, but, "not less than the poet, postpones the apparent order and relation of things to the empire of thought. [6]
It is soothing to the heart to abuse England and France for interposing to save the Ottoman Empire from the destruction it has so richly deserved for a thousand years. [5]
We must try to imagine, too, the logical continuation of that triumph in the Baiae of our modern republic and empire, Newport. [9]
But there seems to be a party that would go further --have Australasia cut loose from the British Empire and set up housekeeping on her own hook. [5]
The duchy of this fortunate youth had been enlarged by the late successful war, and the assembly of the states of the empire was debating whether it should not be made a kingdom. [10]
The beginning of this eminence dated back to the days before the Empire, when there were many little principalities of railroads fighting among themselves. [9]
But above all things, he has taken the sole control of the empire of France into his hands and made it a tolerably free land--for people who will not attempt to go too far in meddling with government affairs. [5]
We did every thing by mass-meeting, in the good old national way, from swapping off one empire for another on the programme of the voyage down to complaining of the cookery and the scarcity of napkins. [5]
At any rate there is evidence that in the Turkish Empire as late as 1616 tobacco was still somewhat a novelty, and the smoking of it was regarded as vile, and a habit only of the low. [4]
Pertinax was killed, the wretched Didius Julianus bought the empire, and this brought my father to Rome from Pannonia. [10]
They were facing the wild North, where civilisation was hacking and hewing and ploughing its way to newer and newer cities, in an empire ever spreading to the Pole. [11]
That sense of the vastness of the British Empire, which at times is so profound, was mingled now with a knowledge that it was fighting for its life, marshalling all its resources for Armageddon. [9]
The Empire of the Spade in the world of history was founded at Nineveh by Layard, a great province added to it by Schliemann, and its boundary extended by numerous explorers, some of whom are diligently at work at the present day. [6]
The sovereign of the Roman Empire is a thousand times a murderer. [10]
I have favored the project for connecting the United States with Europe by an Atlantic telegraph, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the line which is being extended across the Russian Empire. [7]
What would be the position of the British empire, what would be the tendency of English politics and society without him, is a matter for speculation. [4]
As Blomberg knew the name of Leria to be one of the most aristocratic in the empire, and many things were beckoning to him in the future in which Barbara's presence would only have been a hindrance, he left the decision to her. [10]
As compared with the landed estate of the British Empire, the landed estate dominated by any other Power except one --Russia--is not very impressive for size. [5]
Yet by saving the king's navy from defeat out here I did a good turn for my country and the empire. [11]
When we consider the immensity of the British Empire in territory, population, and trade, it requires a stern exercise of faith to believe in the figures which represent Australasia's contribution to the Empire's commercial grandeur. [5]
Ah, think of the glories of the Empire! [11]
Yes, here was the gate, and now we were in the fort, and an empire was gained, never to be lost again. [9]
Three out of the five men who form the war cabinet of an empire are of what would once have been termed an "humble origin. [9]
The whole of the First Empire was smirched with Corsican vulgarity. [4]
Kutuzov's action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire! [2]
I dreamed of the fall of the Caesars, and of a great Greek Empire risen from the ruins, powerful and brilliant under the special protection of the gods of Olympus; and each one of us must labor to bring about the realization of this dream. [10]
He traveled about the empire, leaving as wide a space as possible between himself and that house of doom, from which he could never wipe out the stain of his brother's blood. [10]
Next year, maybe, the Empire Tube Company goes into the business of making crude steel, and many more thousands of tons go from us. [9]
Every city in the Empire shall raise an altar to Antinous, and the friend of whom you have robbed me I will make your equal and companion. [10]
He was to the Empire of Tiberias what the customs are to America. [5]
The origin of the empire is obscure, but the development was not indigenous. [4]
Macrinus now governed the empire almost as a sovereign, for Caesar, formerly a laborious and autocratic ruler, shrank from all business. [10]
These halts, and the distances between them, are here tabulated.--[From "Round the Empire. [5]
It seemed strange that, in the midst of such great events, the loss or keeping of an empire, these men should thus devote the few hours granted them for sleep; but they did according to their natures. [11]
It was not that their beating pulses, and the throbbing in them, was not the ancient passion which has overturned an empire, or made a little spot of earth as dear as Heaven above. [11]
Now he believed that the habit of the ancients was to collect several milkings in a teacup, pour it into the Great Tun, fill up with water, and then skim off the cream from time to time as the needs of the German Empire demanded. [5]
His uniform was that of a general of the Empire. [11]
Mr. Burlingame said that herein lay China's bitter opposition to railroads; a road could not be built anywhere in the empire without disturbing the graves of their ancestors or friends. [5]
His idea was that all the inhabitants of the empire must be citizens, not some of them subjects ruled by the home citizens. [4]
It comes nearer than any empire in history to being self-sufficient, physically independent of the rest of the globe. [4]
You have generously tendered me the support--the united support--of the great Empire State. [7]
His name was Tarautas, and he was known throughout the empire as the most brutal of gladiators, for he had also earned the further privilege of never fighting but for life or death, and never under any circumstances either granting or asking quarter. [10]
There is a tall, old-fashioned silver urn, a sugar-bowl of the period of the Empire, in which the poems sent to be read are placed by unseen hands. [6]
Who would be strong enough to suppress the straining ambitions of the many that the Empire might continue to flourish in its integrity and gather tribute? [9]
The embers were stirred from time to time by the priests and augurs of every god of the East and West, who also superintended the sacrifices, while warriors of every province of the empire stood round in prayer. [10]
The father and son had already heard of this marvellous piece of work, which had formed part of the plunder taken by the Arab conquerors of the Persian Empire at the sack of the "White Tower"--the royal palace of Madam, the capital of the Sassanidze. [10]
For a moment she stood thus silent, then let her arms fall, and cried to the tribunes: "My curse be upon you if you forget what you owe to yourselves, to the Roman Empire, and to your dying friend. [10]
He had to send Hilary, thus vitiated, into the Convention to conduct the most important battle since the founding of the Empire, and Austen Vane was responsible. [9]
I have already seen the Empire of King Solomon diminish to the size of the State of Pennsylvania; I suppose I can bear the reduction of the seas and the river. [5]
A lively comment!--he said.--But Rome, in her great founder, sucked the blood of empire out of the dugs of a brute, Sir! [6]
More than one said that night: "And this is the sort of person that is sent to represent us in a great sister empire! [5]
More than one said that night, "And this is the sort of person that is sent to represent us in a great sister empire! [5]
I put this reformatory satire, in the shape of a fearful "Massacre at Empire City. [5]
Perhaps Caracalla had really spilled most of the blood to serve the welfare and unity of the empire. [10]
If this eventually, prove to be the case at least some such experiment as the new British Labour Party has proposed for the Empire may be tried. [9]
Not that the powers of the Empire had permitted debates on most subjects, but there could be no harm in allowing the lower House to discuss as fiercely as they pleased dog and sheep laws and hedgehog bounties. [9]
A greater than Porsena confronted them, and well it was for them, and for the Empire, that the Body Guard of the Twenty stood behind them. [9]
The hardest, and perhaps the wisest, resolution of his life was to abandon the provinces which it would have exhausted the power of the Empire to retain. [10]
Owing to the peculiar situation of Japan and the anomalous form of its Government, the action of that empire in performing treaty stipulations is inconstant and capricious. [7]
You got European peace for England, and now the problem is how to make this Empire a real thing. [11]
The garden is peace as much as if it were an empire. [4]
The clans are part of the empire, and each chief is responsible for his clan--did one but know it. [9]
We buzzed around over that empire for more than half an hour, and saw the whole of it. [5]
Herodotus tells of one such which was the precursor to the fall of an empire and a change of dynasty--that which Amasis discharges while on horseback, and bids the envoy of Apries, King of Egypt, catch and deliver to his royal master. [5]
He believed that old Dryfoos could step into Bismarck's shoes and run the German Empire at ten days' notice, or about as long as it would take him to go from New York to Berlin. [8]
This was the official beginning of Valmond's fanciful quest for empire. [11]
A vast empire of trade opens out. [4]
And the mother of the woman whose birthday had just passed, the proud Queen Isabella, the conqueror of the Moors--what would she have said had she been condemned to see her grandson, the heir of so great an empire, ensnared by such bonds? [10]
The beautiful aspirations of the Reichstag in Paulskirche were baffled, the constitution of the empire had become a noble historical monument which only a chosen few still remembered. [10]
The large empire of the Pacific coast requires a world of iron machinery, and could manufacture it economically on the spot if the imposts on foreign iron were removed. [5]
During the wars of the French Empire, no doubt,--I said. [6]
The best account of the empire of Songhay is to be found in the pages of Barth, the German traveler, who had access to what seemed to him a credible Arab history. [4]
Yet we speak of the Chinese empire as an instance of arrested growth, for which there is no salvation, except it shall catch the spirit of progress abroad in the world. [4]
On the walls of the chapel and in other quads and passages may be found tablets and inscriptions in memory of those who have died for England and the empire in by-gone wars. [9]
For the whole of that portion of my subject in which Holland and England were combined into one whole, to resist Spain in its attempt to obtain the universal empire, I have very abundant collections. [6]
All the years of her marriage, ever since she had first heard his name, the stature of James Wing had been insensibly growing, and the vastness of his empire gradually disclosed. [9]
The Grand Duke of Galilee, minister of war, complained that all the sixteen grown men in the empire had been given great offices, and consequently would not consent to serve in the ranks; wherefore his standing army was at a standstill. [5]
After the death of Cambyses, Babylon revolted from the Persian empire. [10]
If the prince of Asia were a just man, he would be contented with his own immense empire and not try to subjugate a people who had done him no wrong. [10]
But this background of a great city, of an empire, is not essential to the breadth of treatment upon which we insist in fiction, to broad characterization, to the play of imagination about common things which transfigures them into the immortal beauty of artistic creations. [4]
Did it ever occur to any one, I wonder, that with the purple I assumed the sword, to protect my empire and throne? [10]
There he was, not far beyond forty, and eligible to become a member of Parliament, or even a count of the Holy Roman Empire! [11]
Howbeit, neither he nor Duke Albrecht of Austria did aught to any good end against the foe; and matters went ill enough in all the Empire. [10]
It is by no means one of his smallest merits, that he introduced one system of coinage through his entire empire, and consequently through half the then known world. [10]
It had been my whole life, thinking of him and the Empire, while I brushed the Prince's clothes or combed his hair. [11]

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