Not all the centuries of fitful contact between Dublin and Wales had been by way of invasion and rapine, a good many marriages had been made between the princedoms, and a fair measure of honest commerce been profitable to both parties. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Brothers have been the ruin of Welsh princedoms through all ages," Cadfael observed ruefully. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I imagine, though I don't know, that the pre-eminence of Gwynedd among the Welsh princedoms in Llewellyn Fawr's time has its roots in Merfyn and his dynasty. ❋ Carla (2009)
The spiritual dominions, princedoms, and powers execute the love, knowledge, and power of God relative to the general structure, order, and governance of the cosmos. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2007)
Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels). ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2007)
Now that the Qin have conquered the Mariha princedoms, that border lies right up against the most powerful and largest empire known. ❋ Unknown (2006)
For in Him was created the universe of things in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, thrones, dominions, princedoms, powers—all were created, and exist through and for Him. ❋ Merry Graham Rachel Bye (2005)
He wound up -- at the end, when he died, a huge funeral service for him in St. Paul's cathedral, the garter king of arms read out all his titles, and it took about 20 minutes just to read out the various princedoms and dukedoms and things he'd managed to collect over the course of his career, not really the mark of a modest man, I don't think. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Several small Asian princedoms had displayed a wish for independence, but elite troops were putting an end to such wishes by massacring the rebels, burning their towns and villages and bringing back droves of slaves to Egypt. ❋ Christian Jacq (2002)
He considered himself a true Mahratta; a pirate, a rogue, a thief in armour, a looter, a pestilence, a successor to the generations of Mahrattas who had dominated western India by pouring from their hill fastnesses to terrorize the plump princedoms and luxurious kingdoms in the plains. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
QUOTATION: No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. ❋ Unknown (1989)
Machiavelli in his Discourses characterized republics as superior to princedoms and as requiring high moral quality in citizens. ❋ R. W. M. DIAS (1968)
In the following year after the coronation, princedoms were awarded to the immediate family, and in due course a crop of dukes, counts, barons and knights made their appearance to support the dignity of the Imperial ex-Consular Court. ❋ DAVID G. CHANDLER (1966)
But this very openness made it possible later for Guedimin's pagan hosts, fresh from the fir forests of what is now White Russia, to make a clean sweep of the whole country between Lithuania and Poland, and thus give the scattered princedoms a much-needed cohesion. ❋ Unknown (1952)
And we must say that the speech in which the new ruler is introduced to the "Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers," is hard to reconcile with Abdiel's exposition. ❋ Various (N/A)
Off [we go] the [princedom]! ❋ Volcano_fl (2011)
