1 Early Briton; Plantagenets; Tudors; Stuarts--she ticked them off, but probably she had forgotten a reign or two.
2 Extinct she must be, since she had lived in the reign of Queen Victoria.
3 And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
4 Sissy, though well acquainted with his Royal line, had no personal knowledge of the present Emperor, and his reign was peaceful.
5 The Emperor Charlemagne, in whose reign they were first introduced, seems to have been very sensible of the inconveniences arising from the fashion of this garment.
6 Not the reign of your vainly-expected Messiah offers such power to your dispersed tribes as my ambition may aim at.
7 Thou art ever my better angel, Waldemar," said the Prince; "and when I have such a chancellor to advise withal, the reign of John will be renowned in our annals.
8 But that was in the golden--monetarily--latter half of Queen Victoria's reign.
9 Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox beauty is not approaching its last quarter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 10 Bring glory then to Alexander's reign.
11 You say you can't see a reign of goodness and truth on earth.
12 Yet he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bothnia to the mouths of the Danube.
13 I should have associated my son in the Empire; my dictatorship would have been finished, and his constitutional reign would have begun.
14 All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity.
15 We can no longer both reign together.