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They assembled under bandit captains, chiefs whom historians have had the folly to call kings.
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Princes and other subject rulers who governed under an overlord might be and, as a matter of fact, were referred to as kings.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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Dodona, which bade him "go to the namesake of the god," from which he concluded that the god sent him to the king, because they were both great, and called kings.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Instead of writing letters to Santa or St. Nick or Father Christmas, Latino little ones leave notes for Caspar, Melchior, or Balthasar--or all three "kings."
Feliz Dia De Los Reyes! Happy Feast of the Epiphany! Mirtika 2007
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For women's sphere was the home where it was their duty to make their husbands feel like "kings."
Forging The Thunderbolts: Elizabeth Cady Stanton And American Feminism 1995
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Some nations might have called such rulers "kings."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Their rising, therefore, is at the time of the end, and they are "kings."
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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These mountains, then, are no mere heaps of earth or rocks, but "kings."
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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[84] The early settlers called the Indian chiefs "kings."
Colonial Children 1902
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For some reason that is not clear he called these boys his "kings."
The Life of Gordon, Volume I Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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