Sentence examples for fall of kings from inspiring English sources

All she gets is 'Tis paltry to be Caesar.' Richard III, by contrast, has all those monologues about the fall of kings".

Thus probably arose the astrological belief that the positions of the planets (from the Greek word planetes, "wanderers") in the zodiac could influence worldly events and even cause the rise and fall of kings.

The tragic conviction that there are long-hidden reasons for the fall of kings finds its most extreme expression, today, in the obsessive desire to find "plots" of another kind in the Kennedy story: here you can't help thinking of the conspiracy theories.

It began: "While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, / The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; / While quacks of State must each produce his plan, / And even children lisp the Rights of Man …" The French revolutionary song "Ça Ira" was sung in the auditorium in opposition to "God Save the King", but Burns managed to escape censure, probably saved only by his fame.

Rajadhiraja Chola's conquest of the island led to the fall of four kings there, one of whom, Madavarajah, the king of Jaffna, was a usurper from the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.

After the fall of the kings (c. 509 bc) the consulship preserved regal power in a qualified form.

Rajadhiraja Chola's conquest of the island of Ceylon in the early 11th century CE led to the fall of four kings there.

As governor of Illyricum (17 20), he engineered the fall of Maroboduus, king of the German Marcomanni.

This fable about the fall of a king (the mayor of a bustling mountain town called Kingdom Come) is shrouded in snow and illuminated by firelight.

Even before the fall of the "king of pop", Neverland seemed creepy, with its Peter Pan "Never grow up" motif, carnival rides and live zoo, and, of course, it all went crazily downhill from there.

The rising resulted in the fall of the king's commissioner John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes.