Use sovereign in a sentence
Sentences starting with sovereign
- Sovereign power over America in the parliament Franklin never would admit. [4]
Sentences ending with sovereign
- They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]
- Amasis spun a web of lies, in which he managed to entrap, not only the whole world, but you too, my Sovereign. [10]
- The left wing was occupied by the officers of the household, the innumerable servants and the horses and chariots of the sovereign. [10]
- The history of Sweden proves that this is the faith of the people of Sweden, and we know that it is the faith and practice of their respected sovereign. [7]
- The old man spoke to me alone; he regarded me alone as the future sovereign. [10]
- The man whom she could not forget was dying and, moreover, was his sovereign. [10]
- Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still stronger flow of love for his sovereign. [2]
- He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. [2]
- At the time of the expulsion a few favored Israelites had been allowed to stay, among them the worthy Rodrigo, the doctor's father, who had been the king's physician and was held in high esteem by the sovereign. [10]
- The condescending graciousness of Pharaoh's reception awakened feelings of mingled pleasure and distrust in Hosea's mind, but he summoned courage to frankly express his desire to be relieved from his office and the oath he had sworn to his sovereign. [10]
Short sentences using sovereign
- He whispered-- "O dread sovereign! [5]
More example sentences with the word sovereign in them
- In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
- But not a word of the sovereign had escaped her, and, though she still lacked the power of speech, she found courage to smile and shake her head in denial. [10]
- It is not within our best-fenced churches and creeds that the self-governing American is like to find the religious freedom which the Concord prophet asserted with the strength of Luther and the sweetness of Melancthon, and which the sovereign in his shirt-sleeves will surely claim. [6]
- After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
- The pheasant stuffed with snails and the truffle sauce with it seemed delicious to the sovereign, who called the dish a triumph of the culinary art of the Netherlands. [10]
- Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
- Philip did not wish to quarrel with the artist now, but he would remember the incident, and woe betide him, if in some gloomy hour the sovereign should recall the insult offered him here. [10]
- The father, for whose blessing he longed, and who was to have been gladdened by his advancement, had journeyed far away and must henceforward be the foe of the sovereign to whom he owed his prosperity. [10]
- How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
- Sir Heinz Schorlin, who stood high in the Emperor's favour, would then be asked to apply to the sovereign to annul it, or at any rate to impose a lighter punishment. [10]
- The older brother, who died as Grand Duke, continued his friendship for me while sovereign of his country. [10]
- Should she reject what the most powerful and wealthy sovereign in the world offered with contemptible parsimony? [10]
- The Greek wrote what his sovereign dictated. [10]
- And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
- Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel! [2]
- This rare sovereign was too good to feast the eyes of the rabble. [10]
- That her lover was the most powerful sovereign on earth, and she could appeal to him if she needed help, did not enter her mind. [10]
- The famous physician was really under obligations to remain near the sovereign at this time of day. [10]
- I thought I was really serving my sovereign and the Fatherland, but it turns out that I am serving Barclay. [2]
- The king himself urged Mena's suit, for he loves him as his own son, and when I represented your prior claim he commanded;--and who may resist the commands of the sovereign of two worlds, the Son of Ra? [10]
- It was impressed upon you and yours to hold the life of another sacred; to us, our duty as the sovereign transcends this law. [10]
- This Sovereign must triumph over every foe, even over death--the monster that lay writhing in impotent rage at his feet! [10]
- When Titianus had told his wife the melancholy news he added solemnly: "A great sovereign is dead. [10]
- But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle. [2]
- I gave everything to my sovereign, and if he wants my life also," she continued with fresh emotion, "he may have it; but the existence of a caged bird!--that will destroy me. [10]
- Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte. [2]
- The Macedonian bowed to his sovereign with calm dignity, and in the name of the municipally hoped he had rested well. [10]
- It angered her to have the great sovereign denied his due reverence in her own home; but secretly she believed in the breach of faith. [10]
- The young Burgrave thought that he, Heinz Schorlin, could aid in convincing the sovereign, who would lend him a ready ear, that he, Wolff, had only drawn his sword under compulsion. [10]
- I rather regret this, because papa says he would have lent me a sovereign if he had known. [14]
- And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
- But last year there was not a Douglas popular sovereign in Illinois who did not say it. [7]
- Men who hear themselves designated as the sovereign people, and their welfare as the supreme law of the state, are more apt than others to feel more keenly the distance which separates their own misery from the superabundance of others. [4]
- In dealing with them, acquiescence is the best of palliations and silence the sovereign specific. [6]
- What they called their liberties were privileges which a sovereign bestowed. [10]
- How happy might the world be under a sovereign who should obey that law! [10]
- These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people. [2]
- The report of the successful issue of the first naval battle was believed, and many desired to greet the victorious fleet and hail their sovereign as she entered the harbour. [10]
- The face of the sovereign, who had welcomed Heinz as if he were a long-absent son, assumed a graver expression, and his tone seemed to vibrate with a slight touch of indignation, as he exclaimed: "First, let us settle your own affairs. [10]
- While thus occupied, the sovereign, accustomed to speculation, encountered many a dangerous doubt, but he only needed to gaze at the crucified Saviour to find the way again to the promises of his Church. [10]
- The sovereign of the Roman Empire is a thousand times a murderer. [10]
- Hadrian now occupied the restored palace, not as an architect from Rome but as sovereign of the world; he had shown himself to the Alexandrians and had been received with rejoicings and an unheard-of display in his honor. [10]
- Twelfth Street to the north of the Market House is full three hundred feet across, and the militia of the Sovereign State of Missouri is gathering there. [9]
- The Bishop and the monks in the Serapeum, meant the overthrow of the statue of the sovereign god--death and destruction. [10]
- In Cleopatra's presence the image of the granddaughter of Didymus became even more vivid than that of the peerless sovereign had formerly been in Helena's. [10]
- As they passed the encampment of the troops who accompanied the sovereign, the hipparch could show Hermon a magnificent military spectacle. [10]
- Macrinus now governed the empire almost as a sovereign, for Caesar, formerly a laborious and autocratic ruler, shrank from all business. [10]
- When Heinz, after the Emperor Rudolph had mentioned the latter name, earnestly entreated him to prevent Wolff's persecution, the sovereign promised to fulfil the wish as soon as the proper time came. [10]
- At any rate the disaster that had befallen the image of the sovereign boded evil, that was clear. [10]
- Agne felt, knew, that this stately man was the Bishop whom she sought, but she did not point him out to her little brother, for his aspect was that of some proud sovereign rather than of "the good, kind man" of whom she had dreamed. [10]
- It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all. [2]
- He realised now that such a fate was not for him-- that he must fight, not on the field of battle like a prince, but in a Court of Nations like a doubtful claimant of sovereign honours. [11]
- He had forgotten that sovereign dukes must make sure their succession even unto the third and fourth generation. [11]
- But Granvelle's message that she was one cf those who stood nearest to the abdicating sovereign constantly echoed in her ears, and her absence from this ceremony would have seemed to her unnatural--nay, an offence against something necessary. [10]
- He was aware that she lived at variance with her husband, but how could he have suspected that she cherished the more than bold design of hurling the sovereign from his throne and seizing the Egyptian crown herself. [10]
- It is said that Satan often designs evil and yet works good, and if this late and very tender emotion is a gift of hell, it nevertheless affords our sovereign lord unexpected and therefore all the more exquisite joys. [10]
- Count Lanoi announced that his Highness's travelling escort was ready, and the Emperor, with an air of paternal affection, bade the younger sovereign farewell. [10]
- Barbara did not take as long a walk as usual; but when she was again approaching the house occupied by the abdicated sovereign, Dr. Mathys came toward her. [10]
- We have been summoned to reply to the appeal with which our sovereign the Emperor has honored us. [2]
- The tortured sovereign, still under the influence of the suffering which he had endured, crossed himself and sat down. [10]
- This buoyant, clear-faced, stalwart figure had sprung suddenly out of the dark into the garish light of sovereign place, and the imagination of the people had been touched. [11]
- He tendered a sovereign, got his change, glanced at his silver, muttered to himself, "There isn't enough to buy clothes with," and went his way. [5]
- Barbara knew the sovereign, and when she saw him thrust his lower lip slightly forward she was sure that something vexed him. [10]
- He found the sovereign so thoroughly out of tune that he could not think of inviting him to his banquet. [10]
- Whatever befell the sovereign she brought into connection with herself. [10]
- I am the sovereign of the universe. [10]
- The beauty my sovereign lord is limping after flies unbidden into your arms! [10]
- Measured by its sovereign hotel, the Continental, it would stand at the head of our economic civilization. [6]
- Then the returning sovereign greeted the others with a gracious gesture, but vouchsafed a word to no one until the eunuch stepped before her to deliver his address of welcome. [10]
- He was a sovereign duke of Europe, as Guida had said. [11]
- He had a sovereign balm for "colds," composed of camomile flowers, boneset, liquorice, pennyroyal and gentian root, which he sold to all comers; and it was not unnatural that a visitor with weak lungs should lodge with him. [11]
- Massachusetts is a sovereign and independent State; and it is no privilege of mine to scold her for what she does. [7]
- He was never so much worth respect as when, a dispossessed sovereign with an empty title, discountenanced by his order, disbarred his profession, he held himself ready to take whatever penalty now came. [11]
- Men are cowards, sir, and are driven by fear as the sovereign motive. [6]
- A sovereign people should not be governed by a railroad. [9]
- When she recovered, she would have the five heller pounds which the generous sovereign had left for her as a partial compensation for the injuries sustained while employing her rare skill for the delight of the multitude and, above all, himself. [10]
- In increasing excitement, she saw herself, in imagination, lowering the sheet of music, and the sovereign, deeply moved, holding out both hands to her. [10]
- Bouquets for the returning sovereign had been arranged as well as haste permitted. [10]
- The confessor had reminded the sovereign of the anniversary which had already dawned, and which he was accustomed to celebrate in his own way. [10]
- The Sovereign had quitted the famous institution with a promise to reopen the contest at an early date. [10]
- Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so called Russian type of beauty. [2]
- To protect the plumes in his new cap from being injured by the rain, the sovereign of half the world ordered an old hat to be brought, and waited in the shower until the shabby felt came. [10]
- It gives me pleasure to assure you of my sincere desire to do what I can to render now your sojourn in the United States agreeable to yourself, satisfactory to your sovereign, and beneficial to the Hawaiian people. [7]
- But it will please our sovereign the Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take it! [2]
- Soon after Herr Pfinzing ushered Ernst Ortlieb, his daughter, and Wolff into the presence of the sovereign, who gazed as if restored to youth at the handsome couple whose weal or woe was in his hands. [10]
- She was still permitted to feel herself the object of the love of the mightiest sovereign on earth, and should she be denied performing, by her own power, an act of deliverance to which heart and mind urged her? [10]
- Little Scherau, whom Pentaur had educated to be a sculptor, executed it, as well as many other statues of the great sovereign of Egypt. [10]
- But I," he paused, "by the authority entrusted to me by my Sovereign and country, order a retreat. [2]
- I have a passion for those resplendent titles which are not conferred by a sovereign and would not be the open sesame to the courts of royalty, yet which are as opulent in impressive adjectives as any Knight of the Garter's list of dignities. [6]
- Dr. Stafford, whose paper of directions to his "friend, Mr. Wintrop," I cited, was probably a man of standing in London; yet toad-powder was his sovereign remedy. [3]
- Pontius threw his pallium over the chiton he commonly wore at his work and went forward to meet the sovereign of the world, whose arrival had been announced to him in the prefect's letter. [10]
- But when, so painfully surprised that her eyes filled with tears, she confessed that her selection perhaps had not been very appropriate, and sadly added the inquiry why her beloved sovereign condemned a trivial offence so harshly, he wrathfully exclaimed, "For more than one reason. [10]
- And if the pain which first aroused your sympathy attacks him again, even then will you leave the irascible sovereign to himself or the care of the gods? [10]
- The sovereign has outlived his dominion, and when his fingers drop the sceptre few indeed will bewail him, for the new King has already mounted the throne and His is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever! [10]
- Since death robbed our sovereign lord of his wife, and the gout has prevented his enjoyment of the chief pleasures of life--hunting, the tournament, and the other pastimes which people of our rank usually pursue--in what can he find diversion? [10]
- The excellences of one nature resembled (I thought) that of some sovereign medicine--harsh, perhaps, to the taste, but potent to invigorate; the good of the other seemed more akin to the nourishing efficacy of our daily bread. [14]
- Even the great omnipotent sovereign there had his own cross to bear; tears flowed in his proud palace also, and sighs of anguish were heard. [10]
- In the realm of thought the Greek is sovereign of the nations, and he has given to perishable matter a perfection of form which has elevated and vivified it to immortality. [10]
- All the efforts of those who surrounded the sovereign seemed directed merely to making him spend his time pleasantly and forget that war was impending. [2]
- As the guest of the most hospitable city on earth, their illustrious sovereign had a right to expect from every Alexandrian the most ardent endeavors to make his stay here delightful. [10]
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