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«The king reigns, but does not govern»
«So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?»
«Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, / Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.»
Author: Bible
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«They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.»
«Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? / When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? / Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? / And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.»
«ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.»
«The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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As Far, could, far, goes, king, King He, like kings, may not, the king, The King I, The King of Kings
«The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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catch, king, the king, the play, wherein
«The king's name is a tower of strength.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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the king, tower, Tower of, tower of strength
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