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  • "Work," Chiun commanded the man he called emperor.

    Shock Value Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1983

  • "We of Thuria had heard of a great chieftain who has bound together many tribes, and my father has sent me to Dacor to learn if there be truth in these stories, and if so to offer the services of Thuria to him whom we have heard called emperor."

    Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • In the division of the Greek provinces, 7 the share of the Venetians was more ample than that of the Latin emperor.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Curiously, however, the section on Shu also lists empresses by their titles, though Liu Bei and Liu Shan are naturally not referred to as "emperor."

    Empresses and Consorts 1999

  • They divided between themselves Lothair's kingdom north of the Alps, leaving to his young son the possession of Italy and the empty title of "emperor."

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • He shaped Rome, and his name became a synonym for "emperor."

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

  • You command a fleet and are called emperor. ††"Augustine of Hippo, De civitate dei contra paganos

    Harper's Magazine 2009

  • In a poem written in honor of Stilicho’s consulship in 400 Claudian coyly alludes to the future prospect of another marriage in the family one day, between Stilicho and Serena’s little son Eucherius and Honorius’s sister Placidia: The winged Loves throng the affianced bride, daughter and sister of an emperor. . .

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

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