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In this case, the feeling is always deep in proportion to the strength and purity of domestic affection; still it is checked by the melancholy satisfaction that our place is to be filled by those who are dear to us But now," said the priest, "that the scent lies still warm, let me ask you, Dionysius, how the Bishop came to understand the compactum I really cannot undertake to say," replied Denis; "but if any man has an eye like a basileus he has.— Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
225 Greek: Dęmoboros basileus,] &c.; --Il.— The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
And her place in the Polis was dependent on the basileus, Michael.— The Saracen: Land of the Infidel
It was then that the president Diomed thought it advisable to institute a basileus, or director of the feast--an important office, sometimes chosen by lot; sometimes, as now, by the master of the entertainment Diomed was not a little puzzled as to his election.— Last Days of Pompeii
His reply [124] is expressive of his weakness: he proves, with some learning, that, both in sacred and profane history, the name of king is synonymous with the Greek word basileus: if, at Constantinople, it were assumed in a more exclusive and imperial sense, he claims from his ancestors, and from the popes, a just participation of the honors of the Roman purple.— History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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