monarchs

• The personal attendants of the monarchs were also allowed to play to the same extent. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• Behind was a long colonnade, forming the front to the palace, where the Chamber of Representatives are to hold their sittings; and in front of the monarchs was a superb row of buildings, on which you distinguish the bronze pillar erected by Napoleon to commemorate his victories over Russia, Prussia, and Austria whose princes were now reviewing their victorious armies in what was so lately his capital. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• From out the past Of ages, since mankind have known the rule Of monarchs--from the bloody rolls amassed Of Sin and Slaughter--from the Cæsars' school Take the worst pupil; and produce a reign More drenched with gore, more cumbered with the slain XLV He ever warred with freedom and the free Nations as men, home subjects, foreign foes So that they uttered the word 'Liberty Found George the Third their first opponent. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
• Gold is the money of monarchs, and was in open alliance with our enemies in the civil war Mr. Lamar presented resolutions from the Legislature of his State, instructing the senators and representatives to vote for the pending measure. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• A few paltry words were no sufficient cause of war between two such monarchs, and it was the act of a passionate and hot-headed man to be mobilising his troops while he was sending his first embassy. —  Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

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