Use king in a sentence
Sentences starting with king
- King Euergetes and your friend Eulaeus send you their greetings. [10]
- King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
- King watched this with the double interest of spectator and player. [4]
- King and Forbes, who had not had a Fourth of July for some time, wanted to see what it was like at Newport. [4]
- King Arthur's people were not aware that they were indecent and I had presence of mind enough not to mention it. [5]
- King said he was going also. [4]
- King went back to the hotel in a terror of the place, which did not leave him so long as he remained. [4]
- King was ready to pull the boat on to the float, and Irene stood by the landing expectant. [4]
- King was delighted to notice that he was bald. [4]
- King had heard this lake compared with Como and Maggiore, and as a patriot he endeavored to think that its wild and sylvan loveliness was more pleasing than the romantic beauty of the Italian lakes. [4]
Sentences ending with king
- She says: "Did you ever see the king? [5]
- What a fool you are, my simple king! [11]
- The informers call you a heretic, a sorcerer, who has bewitched the king. [10]
- To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
- A dispute ensues, with loud talk; in the midst of it enter the king. [5]
- There is one who in make-up, form, and air, even to the cut of his side-whiskers, is an exact counterpart of the great railway king. [4]
- Joan of Arc, who had never been defeated by the enemy, was defeated by her own King. [5]
- Only my letters--in which I complain of the piratical sons of the desert who fall upon the messengers--will reach the king. [10]
- Nitetis and Phanes were the only human beings, who had ever made him forget that he was a king. [10]
- The two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. [4]
Short sentences using king
- The king got well. [5]
- But the king was ca'm. [5]
- The king sat thinking also. [11]
- The king stroked their heads. [10]
- The King offered thee knighthood? [11]
- The Coronation of the King. [5]
- Fitch said "There's the king. [5]
- Pompey looked towards the King. [10]
- The mercy of the King! [10]
- On business for the King! [10]
Sentences containing king two or more times
- But the King you represent had not restricted his liberties so, and you being the King, that is, yourself, were forced to abide by your own regulations. [11]
- Hard conditions; he would take the stripes--a king might do that, but a king could not beg. [5]
- The king was willing, but the Board, who were all well-born folk, implored the king to spare them the indignity of examining the weaver's son. [5]
- But the king watches over the laws, and guides the destiny cf this land, the king must blame you, nay perhaps punish you. [10]
- As the King was walking upon the battlements one day, "a woman cried out, saying, Help, my lord, O King! [5]
- A wild red was ever in the Carvel blood, in Captain Jack, in Lionel, in the ancestor of King Charles's day, who fought and bled and even gambled for his king. [9]
- The king spoke up in anger, and then he smiled and said: 'O king, I am not ready; if I die, I die. [11]
- He had already tried to make the King steal, and failed; but there would be no more trouble of that sort, now, for of course the King would not dream of defying a distinct command delivered directly from head-quarters. [5]
- He tek me to the King, I am made lieutenant, the mob come and the King and Queen are carry off to Paris. [9]
- It must go to the King and then to the Pope, and from the Pope to the King again, and so on. [11]
More example sentences with the word king in them
- Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
- Take off all your useless ornaments and only wear the chain the king gave you on your marriage. [10]
- There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
- I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues. [11]
- Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
- The king robbed you of your bride, me of my daughter. [10]
- He was credited, you may well believe, with calumnies against King George, and once my Uncle Grafton and Mr. Dulany were for clapping him in jail, avowing that he taught treason to the young. [9]
- I will tell you about it now--A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. [5]
- The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
- For within five years Paris fell--1436--and our King marched into it flying the victor's flag. [5]
- Why, two hundred years before the King was born, an Enderby was promised an earldom. [11]
- Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
- Now the king would ride back alone. [11]
- But the King would not let her go. [5]
- Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
- Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
- True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
- Then the King would fain cruise at once against the French, but Queen Dorothy must needs go with him. [9]
- From thence they would cross the peninsula of Sinai, and strive to reach the Egyptian army by forced marches, and make the king acquainted with Ani's criminal attempts. [10]
- Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. [5]
- So calm the world, so still the city lies, So warm the haze that spreads o'er everything; And yet where, there, Peace sits as Lord and King, Havoc will reign when next the sun shall rise. [11]
- Nothing in the world could save the King of England; nor me, which was more important. [5]
- Suddenly the man's words began to repeat themselves in Enderby's head: "To-night the King sleeps at Sutterby on the Wolds. [11]
- Edward the Sixth wondered if the spectacle of a king on his way to jail had ever encountered such marvellous indifference before. [5]
- It was not without a little shock that King heard the good points, the style, the physical perfections, of Irene so fully commented on, and not without some alarm that he heard predicted for her a very successful career as a belle. [4]
- We were now within six leagues of the King, who was a the Castle of Chinon. [5]
- The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
- But we knew with what intellectual giants we had to do; no one had needed to tell us that, at least; and when they called me to them I felt as if the king himself had honoured me. [10]
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- The King conversed with these --he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered --and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
- I am one with them, and I am as good a subject as the king has. [11]
- That Egyptian headdress with the vulture's head which the king likes best to see me in, the young Greek Lysias and the Roman too, call barbaric, and so every one must call it who is not interested in the Egyptians. [10]
- The Commission charged with the examination of candidates for posts in the army came with the king to the Valley, whereas they could have transacted their business just as well at home. [5]
- He had quarrelled with North, lost his place on the Admiralty, and presently the King had made him a Lord of the Treasury, tho' more out of fear than love. [9]
- They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
- And he walked with me till mornin', carryin' the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin' on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
- The king tapped with his white-gloved hand on the ledge of the box when he was pleased with the singing.--To a morning concert and heard the real Paganini. [6]
- Mr. King dined with his cousin. [4]
- Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
- The King Caesarion, with Antyllus and several companions, attacked a woman. [10]
- During the first winter the King allowed them to spend only the most inclement months at Philae, for he was unwilling to live without them. [10]
- Envy and ill will would also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no mercy where crime against his own person was concerned. [10]
- But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
- My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
- But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
- And you, you--the wife of the man who has induced thousands to desert King Philip, the wife of the exile, who directs the resistance within these walls. [10]
- It was the wife of the king, who had suspected, and had now found out. [11]
- Who was Grand, who was Well-Beloved, who was Desired, who was the Idol of the French, who was worthy to be called a King of the Citizens? [4]
- He might tell who told him; then the king and the duke would make it warm for me. [5]
- And Mr. King, who listened attentively, finally joined in with the questioners, and said, "Captain, what is the average price of land down in this part of Florida by the--gallon? [4]
- The privileged few who followed the coffin into the mausoleum remained sometime, but the King soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. [5]
- Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
- It is the White Rock, where King Ovi died. [11]
- The patent under which this colonization was undertaken was obtained from King James by the solicitation of Richard Hakluyt and others. [4]
- The imprudent game which she had played with King Caesarion had unfortunately roused the people against her. [10]
- From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
- Of the part which Enderby had played Lord Rippingdale said no more to the King than this: "Sir John Enderby was of these gentlemen who saved your Majesty's life. [11]
- In the antechamber, where Hermon waited for the King, Proclus mentioned one of the finest statues of Alexander by Lysippus, and an exquisite Eros by Praxiteles. [10]
- Wherever commerce reigned,--and where did it not?--he was king and head of its Holy Empire, Pope and Emperor at once. [9]
- It was dark when the King and his company came to the combe. [11]
- Many years before, when she was living in a count's family, she had taught the king, as a young prince, to churn, and on the strength of this a petition was drawn up for her by my family. [10]
- I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
- In sooth, yesternight wert thou the Prince of Wales; to-day art thou my most gracious liege, Edward, King of England. [5]
- And so they were, in effect--at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did--for a consideration--whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. [5]
- Most of them were peasants; and they exhibited no servility in receiving their marks of distinction, but bowed to the king as they would to any other man, and his majesty touched his cocked hat in return. [4]
- Even those who were most under the influence of wine, listened to their king in a kind of unconscious obedience. [10]
- First the horses were led out; and their owners, approaching the king, received from his hands the diplomas, and a flag from an attendant. [4]
- But especially they were commanded to pray for the king, in whom the realm was embodied and shadowed forth. [10]
- All his nobles were assembled waiting for him there, welcomed him with loud acclamations, and fell on their faces to the ground before their king. [10]
- In politics they were Armagnacs--patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. [5]
- Among the company were also Captains Martin, Archer, Wood, Webbe, Moore, King, Davis, and several gentlemen of good means, and a crowd of the riff-raff of London. [4]
- Yet his words were accompanied by such a charm of action and expression, that the king could understand them, notwithstanding the defective Persian in which they were clothed, better than the allegorical speeches of his own subjects. [10]
- The king himself went to bed in the Fort that night, Pierre and his bodyguard--by name Noel, Little Babiche, Corvette, Jose, and Parfaite --its only occupants, singing joyfully: "Did yees iver hear tell o' Long Barney, That come from the groves o' Killarney? [11]
- When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
- And it is well; her act being proportioned to the dignity of one who carries in her head and heart riches which outvalue any that any King could add, though he gave his all. [5]
- Forget not to wear my sword--it has come from the first King Charles himself, Robert. [11]
- This is no weakling, but a king. [5]
- The second day, we made the acquaintance of Mr. Street (since deceased) and put on white shirts and went and paid a state visit to the king. [5]
- Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
- Of the unconventional ways of the establishment Mr. King had an illustration when he attempted to get some washing done. [4]
- The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch. [10]
- Remembering where I was, I expressed myself in terms that were gentle though austere regarding the King, and reproved the supineness and stupidity of the Crown Prince. [11]
- Outlaw as he was, his estates given over to his son who now carried a knighthood bestowed by King Charles, he was still a loyal subject to the dynasty which had dishonoured him. [11]
- The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
- Yet the King was still ill-disposed to the merchant, for while he destroyed Archias's death sentence which had been laid before him for his signature, he said to Philippus: "The money-bag whose life I give you was the friend of my foe. [10]
- The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
- The first night was spent at "Warraskogack," the king of which warned Smith that while Powhatan would receive him kindly he was only seeking an opportunity to cut their throats and seize their arms. [4]
- Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered. [4]
- Well, the king was out of the hole; and on terms satisfactory to the Church and the rest of the aristocracy, no doubt. [5]
- Nevertheless Mr. King was not uninterested in renewing his memories of the old house. [4]
- This good woman was made happy all the day long by the applauses which she got out of herself for her magnanimous condescension to a tramp; and the King was just as self-complacent over his gracious humility toward a humble peasant woman. [5]
- Farnese's bold assault was kindly rebuked by the commander-in-chief, and when the former praised Navarrete's heroic aid before Don Juan, the general gave the bold warrior and gallant trooper, the honorable commission of bearing tidings of the victory to the king. [10]
- But King, who was immensely interested in it all as one phase of American summer life, was glad that Irene was not at Ocean Grove. [4]
- Such a vessel was I, but the Deity, which can fashion better and more quickly than a goldsmith, has made me your king. [10]
- Although the King was hungry and chilly, he was also so tired and so drowsy that these latter influences soon began to get the advantage of the former, and he presently dozed off into a state of semi-consciousness. [5]
- Old King Cole was himself a merry old soul, if we may put any faith in the pages of history. [12]
- Meantime the King was having a complete suit of armor made for her at Tours. [5]
- When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags. [5]
- Mr. King himself was going south in the morning, if travel were possible. [4]
- And this name was explained by the circumstance that whoever would approach the king must do so by the way of "Hengstenberg. [10]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word king in a sentence? How do you use king in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word king? It contains example sentences with the word king, a sentence example for king, and king in sample sentence.