dominion

• They believe themselves and their country especially privileged over all others; that their dominion is the celestial empire, and their territory the flowery land The fundamental principle of the Chinese empire is anti-commercial. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams, by Josiah Quincy
• They conspired our murder; but in this vision is the prophecy of a dominion which is to push them from their stools, and whose crown doth sear their eyeballs. —  The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• But they are not destined simply to take the regions of the heart for their dominion, they are not satisfied merely with interrupting her better feelings; but after a while you may see the blooming cheek beginning to droop and fade, her intelligent eye no longer sparkles with the starry light of heaven, her vibrating pulse long since changed its regular motion, and her palpitating bosom beats once more for the midday of her glory. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
• They believe themselves and their country especially privileged over all others; that their dominion is the celestial empire, and their territory the flowery land The fundamental principle of the Chinese empire is anti-commercial It is founded entirely upon the second and third of Vattel's general principles, to the total exclusion of the first. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
• Polycrates was the king of Samos Oretes was stung by this taunt, but, instead of revenging himself on Mitrobates, the author of it, he resolved on destroying Polycrates, though he had no reason other than this for any feeling of enmity toward him Polycrates, although the seat of his dominion was a small island in the Ćgean Sea, was a very wealthy, and powerful, and prosperous prince. —  Darius the Great Makers of History

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