Sentence examples for command of the king from inspiring English sources

It was, Mr. Clark writes, "a praetorian guard under the personal command of the king".

Whether the Royal Nepalese Army, ultimately under the command of the king, though, will obey remains a mystery.

But if we don't want to be told that fuck comes from "fornicate under command of the king", or crap from Thomas Crapper then the experts, willy-nilly, still have to be the cops.

There he soon made a name for himself as a soldier, under the command of the king's uncle, John, Duke of Bedford.

The apostle is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages.

The Arabs had, meanwhile, advanced into Mesopotamia, capturing the royal city of Ctesiphon and, eventually, defeating an army under command of the Persian king himself.

It is the first time it has been used to protect a member from its own people.Officially the troops are under the command of the Bahraini king while they are on his territory.

The navy, now under the command of the Spartan king Leotychides, thus skulked off Delos, while the remnants of the Persian fleet skulked off Samos, both sides unwilling to risk battle.

This larger-than-life-size Neoclassical work, cast in 1803 in a size not equaled in the art of the colonial period, conveys the command and benevolence of the king, who looks like the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in his toga.

Cimon moreover, when he took the command, found the power of the king broken, and the spirits of the Persians humbled by their great defeats and incessant routs under Themistocles, Pausanias, and Leontychides, and thus easily overcame the bodies of men whose souls were quelled and defeated beforehand.

On June 14 the highly disciplined and professionally led New Model Army organized and commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax with Oliver Cromwell as his second in command, defeated the king and Prince Rupert at the Battle of Naseby.