Sentence examples for great prince from inspiring English sources

In 1370 Great Prince Algirdas besieged Moscow.

And home of the late great Prince".

She tells of a great prince whose bride retained her youth and beauty as he faded.

"The Hamptons are great," Prince Albert said, comparing it with his kingdom.

"It was the boast of Augustus," he said, "that he found Rome of brick and left it marble; a praise not unworthy a great prince...

"When Brunswick's great Prince cam a cruising to France, / Republican billies to cowe, / Bauld Brunswick's great Prince wad have shown better sense, / At hame with his Princess to mowe …" The song did not appear in public until 1916, when just 25 copies were printed in a limited edition pamphlet.

The uncertain political situation did not favour the creation of a regulated postal service, though it necessitated frequent contact between the kings and vassals and among the great princes.

Summit diplomacy can be risky, a point made in the 15th century by the Burgundian diplomat and chronicler Philippe de Commynes, who wrote, "Two great princes who wish to establish good personal relations should never meet each other face to face, but ought to communicate through good and wise emissaries".

Patronage throughout this period was mainly in the hands of the emperors and great princes of the church; and the form of liturgical plate and reliquaries, altar crosses, and the like underwent no fundamental change; Ottonian work of the later 10th and 11th centuries can be distinguished from that of the 9th only in the development of style.

Last night I had asked Fabiola to reflect on her own experience with one of the great princes of peace of our times.

He could have been one of the "fair and great princes" recorded in the Russo-Byzantine treaties of 911 and 944 or one of the "archons of Rus" mentioned in De administrando imperio.