crowned head, emperor, king, anointed king, majesty, imperator[Lat], protector, president, stadholder[obs3], judge.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

THE year that followed was the saddest Christie had ever known, for she suffered a sort of poverty which is more difficult to bear than actual want, since money cannot lighten it, and the rarest charity alone can minister to it.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

A NEW DAY I give, as it seems to me, with good reason the palm to Jacques Amyot of all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language, wherein he excels all others, nor for his constancy in going through so long a work, nor for the depth of his knowledge, having been able so successfully to smooth and unravel so knotty and intricate an author (for let people tell me what they will, I understand nothing of Greek; but I meet with sense so well united and maintained throughout his whole translation, that certainly he either knew the true fancy of the author, or having, by being long conversant with him, imprinted a vivid and general idea of that of Plutarch in his soul, he has delivered us nothing that either derogates from or contradicts him), but above all, I am the most taken with him for having made so discreet a choice of a book so worthy and of so great utility wherewith to present his country.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

After celebrating the funereal rites of Acrisius with due solemnity, Perseus returned to Argos; but feeling loath to occupy the throne of one whose death he had caused, he exchanged kingdoms with Megapenthes, king of Tiryns, and in course of time founded the cities of Mycenæ and Midea.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

She remembered oven then, and she wondered how foolish she was to think of it at that time, that she wished she had put on another dress and the baby's best clothes; and she kept praying that the house would be spared so that he, when he returned, would have something to come to, and it wouldn't be quite so desolate, and—how could he ever know what had become of her and baby?
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

But that first doubtful tottering moment passed, he seemed to gather strength with his gathering excitement; and the next day, when he was seated at table with his creditors, his eye kindling and his cheek flushed with the consciousness that he was about to make an honorable figure once more, he looked more like the proud, confident, warm-hearted, and warm-tempered Tulliver of old times than might have seemed possible to any one who had met him a week before, riding along as had been his wont for the last four years since the sense of failure and debt had been upon him,–with his head hanging down, casting brief, unwilling looks on those who forced themselves on his notice.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

That the most powerful emotion of man, next to the sexual, should disappear, might be a personal defect of his own; but that the most intelligent society, led by the most intelligent clergy, in the most moral conditions he ever knew, should have solved all the problems of the universe so thoroughly as to have quite ceased making itself anxious about past or future, and should have persuaded itself that all the problems which had convulsed human thought from earliest recorded time, were not worth discussing, seemed to him the most curious social phenomenon he had to account for in a long life.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The foreman, for some reason, had galloped down the line, casting his eyes keenly over the herd.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Texas; Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains by Frank Gee Patchin

It is a very lively little Gull; its flight is much lighter than the preceding, and when several are together they can hardly ever keep quiet for long, but from time to time give vent to their peculiar cry, which by some has been likened to the sound of laughter.
— from Egyptian Birds For the most part seen in the Nile Valley by Charles Whymper

It gave them a degree of cosmopolitanism such as few comparable colonies have ever known.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

I alone had entered every region of her soul; neither mother, father, husband, nor children had ever known her.—Strange truth!
— from The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

When an hallucination brought the countenance of the drowned man before Therese, she closed her eyes, keeping her terror to herself, not daring to speak to her husband of her vision, lest she should bring on a still more terrible crisis.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

And of this be sure," the priest continued, his eye kindling as if some higher power were speaking through him, "since thou hast won thy soul through her, it is with hers that thine must stand or fall.
— from Albrecht by Arlo Bates

If he had cared to do so perhaps he could have explained Kate Underwood's stiffness.
— from A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine

cture: "He saunter'd Europe round, And gathered every vice on Christian ground, Saw every court, heard every king declare His royal sense of operas, or the fair.—
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

XIX His hungry eyes upon her face he fed, And feeding them so, pined himself away; And she, declining often down her head, His lips, his cheeks, his eyes kissed, as he lay, Wherewith he sighed, as if his soul had fled From his frail breast to hers, and there would stay With her beloved sprite: the armed pair These follies all beheld and this hot fare.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

Turning toward Franklin, he flung out: "I fancy that I have in my eye the person who drew it up--one of the bitterest and most mischievous enemies this country has ever known.
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller