imperial

• Ostriches presented by the Emperor Muley Ismael to Queen Anne, 593 P Palace_, imperial, at Tafileet, magnificent 80. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• Whenever I felt a touch of home-sickness, and at frequent intervals, I got out my sheet of the largest-sized narrow-ruled imperial paper--I think it was called "imperial"--and entered into spiritual intercourse with "Home." —  Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
• Then take a considerable number of bulbs of the crown-imperial, the narcissus, the hyacinth, the tulip, the crocus, and others; let the leaves of each have sprouted to about an inch, more or less according to the size of the bulb; put all these, pretty promiscuously, but pretty thickly, on the top of the box. —  Highways ; Byways in Sussex
• He remarked:--"The parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities--one as the local legislature of this island, with the executive power as her instrument of action; the other and nobler capacity is what I call her imperial character, by which she guides and controls all the inferior and provincial legislatures." —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character_; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

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