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a superhuman source, consecrated by antiquity and by the continuity, coherence and grandeur of its work, in short, by that character which the Latin tongue is alone capable of expressing and which it terms majesty.
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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A bow is appropriate even though we are not technically her subjects and she is to be called her majesty.
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A bow is appropriate even though we are not technically her subjects and she is to be called her majesty.
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Deemed 1999's celebrity wedding of the year, it came complete with golden thrones for the bride and groom, as well as a crown for her "majesty."
Off To The Graveyard 2007
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Now that she came abroad so rarely, her presence was not without deep significance, and so she took her homeward way with a primitive kind of majesty.
The White Rose Road 1995
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Now that she came abroad so rarely, her presence was not without deep significance, and so she took her homeward way with a primitive kind of majesty.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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Though eager to rule, he was in truth made for anything but that; for while surrounded by dependents, he exercised no authority over them and preserved no kind of majesty.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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