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Ganges, in 1799, being off Cape Nicola Mole, he was boarded by a boat from the English frigate Surprise, and a demand was very coolly made that all the Englishmen on board the Ganges should be given up, as they were wanted for the service of His Majesty,
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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The picture is about eighteen by twenty-two inches, and belongs to his Majesty,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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After the champion had drank to the health of 'GEORGE THE FOURTH, the rightful monarch of Great Britain,' in a cup of gold sent by His Majesty,
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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My learned friend will give me leave to say, that I own it is quite new to me, that in discussing criminal matters, the counsel for the prosecution are to argue it and labour it as they would a cause between party and party: -- I dare say I have been extremely faulty in that respect, but having been engaged in criminal prosecutions, chiefly in the service of His Majesty,
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It is not improbable, that, as the subject of their poems is the _Restoration_, many of my fellow-citizens may choose to adorn their _title-pages_ with the representation of His Majesty,
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Those who "farmed the paupers" pleaded to be released from their contracts or for special compensation; proprietors of Boarding Schools, or "Academies," as they were generally called, had to modify their terms and to plead for compensation, while the King on his throne found the Civil List insufficient even with that Spartan order adopted by His Majesty,
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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If you have any appreciation for fine plate -- and you are to be pitied if you have not -- you will mark the charming shape and exquisite chasing of the antique urn and other silver vessels, which shine as brilliantly as on the day they left the silversmiths to Her Majesty,
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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-- Surely, the Lords Commissioners did not mean this proposition as one that was similar, and would _apply_ to the case now _reported_ upon; -- and especially as Dr. Lee and his associates did not propose, as we do, either to purchase the lands, or pay the quit-rents to his Majesty,
Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade
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When he conquers all the foes that oppose his Majesty,
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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"Keeping things as they are is not revolutionary," replied his Majesty,
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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