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Sentences starting with reign

Reign of reason, all hail! [7]

Sentences ending with reign

Oh, what a splendid reign! [2]
This will bring several of them into view at once, and each zigzag will represent the length of a king's reign. [5]
This Act was repealed in the following reign. [5]
Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science; though empires fall, "He whose right it is shall reign. [5]
Take your pen now, and twenty-one pieces of white paper, each two inches square, and we will do the twenty-one years of the Conqueror's reign. [5]
A detail of no consequence: other obscurities did it every year of the forty-five of her reign. [5]
At Sutterby the gentlemen received gracious thanks of the King who had been here delivered from the first act of violence made against him in his reign. [11]
In conclusion, I believe I may justly claim to utter the voice of my country in saying that we hold him in deep honor, and also in cordially wishing him a long life and a happy reign. [5]

Sentences containing reign two or more times

I whittled out a basket of little pegs and drove one in the ground at the beginning of each reign, and gave it that King's name--thus: I measured all the reigns exactly as many feet to the reign as there were years in it. [5]

More example sentences with the word reign in them

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]
My brother Geta was to reign together with me over the empire, which ought to have been mine alone as the first-born. [10]
Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
The reign of universal peace would begin then, to end no more forever.... [5]
Miles Hendon and Tom Canty were favourites of the King, all through his brief reign, and his sincere mourners when he died. [5]
This brings us to the reign of Elizabeth, after passing through a period of nearly five hundred years of England's history--492 to be exact. [5]
Cilo taught me to place my own power, and the greatness of the realm which it would be incumbent on me to reign over, above everything, even above the gods. [10]
An instant, then to me, your low good-bye-- Good-night, good-bye; and then the social reign, The lights, the songs, the flowers--and the pain. [11]
He had expected to bring home a wife, and the house where she was to reign as mistress was razed to the ground. [10]
It cost me three shillings and eightpence, good honest coin of the last reign, that old Harry that's just dead ne'er touched or tampered with. [5]
Ask yourself after this how many lives will be sacrificed when your flight causes hatred and fury to reign supreme in the soul of the cheated monarch! [10]
It was in the reign of the late King Francis, and you doubtless know that this great Prince was a very gallant gentleman, who was said to have broken as many hearts as lances. [10]
While they keep the King idle and in bondage to his sports and follies, they are great and their importance grows; whereas if ever he assert himself and rise and strike for crown and country like a man, their reign is done. [5]
So it is that woman continues to reign, where she has once got a foothold, long after her dear frame has become dust. [4]
The reign of terror was over, and the Arkansas domination broken for good. [5]
Now that the terrible din of the guns had ceased a hush seemed to reign over the town, broken only by the rustle of footsteps, the moaning, the distant cries, and the crackle of fires which seemed widespread everywhere. [2]
The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over. [5]
True, under the reign of Ptolemy I, the owners of the Owl's Nest were on the point of being deprived of this favour, because they were repeatedly accused of piracy in distant seas; but it had not been done. [10]
You see a reign of goodness and truth on earth, but I don't see it. [2]
The most absolute quiet must reign there. [10]
War is my profession, but his business is to reign and not to command armies! [2]
Where love and peace reign must there not be happiness? [10]
Anquetil, and many other scholars would place it in the reign of Darius, a view which has been proved to be incorrect by Spiegel, Duncker and v. Schack in his introduction. [10]
The afternoon wore on, they returned to the garden for tea, and a peaceful stillness continued to reign about them, the very sky smiling placidly at her fears. [9]
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity. [2]
Two precious years of my early manhood were spent there under the reign of Louis Philippe, king of the French, _le Roi Citoyen_. [6]
In the beginning of Elizabeth's reign travelers had no choice but to ride on horseback or to walk. [4]
What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them. [5]
To judge a man who is in disfavor and to throw on him all the blame of other men's mistakes is very easy, but I maintain that if anything good has been accomplished in this reign it was done by him, by him alone. [2]
From now onwards, lying would be impossible, the reign of truth was at hand and deceit had been routed from its last stronghold. [10]
There, in quiet leisure, he hopes to strive for knowledge and to penetrate deeply into all the new things which were discovered, invented, created, and improved during his reign, and of which he was permitted to learn far too little thoroughly. [10]
The younger kingdom, it shall be The keeper of my crown; And she, my queen, shall reign with me Within her own good town. [11]
He paused, looked ironically straight into Balashev's eyes, and said in a quiet voice: "And yet what a splendid reign your master might have had! [2]
It was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth, and has passed through many vicissitudes. [6]
On a Stela in the Leyden Museum I have discovered that a certain Psamtik, a member of the fallen dynasty, lived till the 17th year of Amasis' reign, and died at the age of seventy-five. [10]
No man disputed his reign, some envied his supremacy. [6]
Charles X. begins his reign in a very conciliating manner, and is really popular. [4]
The look upon her face was very gentle; something new and beautiful had come to reign there. [11]
Bagration bowed his head and listened: Bring glory then to Alexander's reign And on the throne our Titus shield. [2]
Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube. [2]
Then, after he had conquered Tunis for his brother Philip, he had wished to reign over that country as its king. [10]
His granddaughter (the eldest) is but lately warned to the youngest of the Grand Dukes, and so who knows but a day may come when the blood of the Howells's may reign in the land? [5]
The dreary and dragging ages of bloodshed and disorder and oppression will give place to peace and order and the reign of law. [5]
This man had created a small reign of terror there. [5]
But I will bring my court afar, My throne to hers shall go; And I will reign beside the Var, And in the Vale of Loe. [11]
We have not been, nor are likely to be, a happy family, unless in your saturnian reign we learn to say, pax vobiscum--do you know Latin? [11]
His father had been of knightly rank, and in the reign of Marcus Aurelius he had been in the service of Avidius Cassius, his fellow-countryman, the illustrious governor of Asia as 'procurator ab epistolis'. [10]
He behaved admirably at the beginning of his reign and during 1812, but acted badly by giving a constitution to Poland, forming the Holy Alliance, entrusting power to Arakcheev, favoring Golitsyn and mysticism, and afterwards Shishkov and Photius. [2]
I should have associated my son in the Empire; my dictatorship would have been finished, and his constitutional reign would have begun. [2]
It is prettily and compendiously fitted up, and must be very ancient, for the inscription on the chest, which contained it stated that it was made in the 11th dynasty (end of the third century B. C.) in the reign of King Mentuhotep. [10]
I measured off 817 feet of the roadway, a foot representing a year, and at the beginning and end of each reign I drove a three-foot white-pine stake in the turf by the roadside and wrote the name and dates on it. [5]
The saint's song: "O Love, Love's reign announcing, Why dost thou wound me so? [10]

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