Sentence examples for king's command from inspiring English sources

One faithful adviser fled for his life, another fell on his sword at the king's command.

He was made a royal chaplain and received, at the king's command, the degree of doctor of divinity from Cambridge.

Initially reluctant to be uprooted from Rome, he was repeatedly pressured by Richelieu to heed the king's command and eventually arrived in the French capital in December 1640.

A Maoist rebellion has been spreading across the whole country since 1996, taking 11,000 lives in the process.The army, which has remained under the king's command, has been inept and brutal as a counter-insurgency force.

The principal officials of the royal household were the chancellor, usually an ecclesiastic, who was responsible for the issuance of royal letters and the preservation of records; the mayordomo, a magnate, who supervised the household and the royal domain; and the alférez (Catalan: senyaler), also a magnate, who organized and directed the army under the king's command.

As Hillaire Belloc once described someone, 'her face was like the king's command when all the swords are drawn.' " Gayatri Devi was born in London on May 23 , 1919 the daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, a district of what is now West Bengal, close to the Himalayan foothills of India's far northeast.

Frustrated by the range and diversity of the king's commands, Poussin eventually secured permission to return to Rome in 1642, ostensibly to fetch his wife.

As an executant of the young king's commands, Bute, though equipped with no grander a title than groom of the stole, was close to being prime minister.

The Venethi says Jordanes, who "now rage in war far and wide, in punishment for our sins", were at that time made obedient to the Gothic king Hermanaric's command.

However, the Mahabharata does not include this event; it only describes Bhishma crowning Chitrangada as king under Satyavati's command.

Raphael did not disclose the amount the company paid for the messages, but it's probably a pittance compared with the king's ransom that James would command if he seeks employment elsewhere. .