How To Use Majesty In A Sentence
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Her majesty awarded a distinction upon 〔 to 〕 the retiring Prime Minister.
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I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
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They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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She passes on in unblenched majesty," said Lady Delacour.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!”
What I Remember
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The main theme returns to be transformed during the wonderful close - horns, tubas, and strings alternating their harmonies with quiet majesty.
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Next morning, his lordship and friends, accompanied by the high and low bailiffs, walked to view the manufactory of Mr. Clay, japanner in ordinary to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the sword manufactory of
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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There were also a huge range of aspects of Her Majesty's life - from images of her relaxing with her family and corgis, entertaining, on her royal duties, and as Head of the Commonwealth.
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Is it possible that a glimpse of the awesome majesty of the night sky, once revealed, would help to overcome anti-social behaviour?
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In his million-acred temple, he stood -- cold, white and useless -- leaning upon his broken staff; while timorous leadership gaped at his still majesty --
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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Then they brought their collars, and their wands, and their sistra in their hands, and displayed them before his majesty; and they sang --
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
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The company's Queen's Award was approved by Her Majesty in April last year in acknowledgement of export excellence.
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Syph'lis" -- at which he corrects them with offended majesty
The Enormous Room
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Her majesty awarded a distinction to the retiring Prime Minister.
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Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over – greatness in one counsellor, or an over – strict combination in divers; which are things soon found, and holpen.
The Essays
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To his Majesty this was merely the voice of Max at his flightiest.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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This psalm blesses us with the promise that our lives have meaning and partake of the majesty of God.
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Similar swords became used by the 9th century for ceremonial purposes too, such as coronations: the sword had become, with the mace, a symbol of majesty.
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If, however, his Majesty were willing, as they hoped, to avoid discontenting all for the sake of satisfying one, it was possible that affairs might yet prosper.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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And Sir George Grey will advise the grant of Her Majesty's gracious pardon
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On the 6th May he dined with Her Majesty at Marlborough House; on the 7th he received a deputation from the inhabitants of his native town of Whittlesey, who were desirous of making him a presentation.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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After touring the hospital, Her Majesty unveiled a commemorative plaque.
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The first check to her duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her.
II.8
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As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France:
The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
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His Majesty requests your presence in the royal chambers.
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God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
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I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway?
The Sky Writer
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In taking care of the royal feet, M Sitts showed such skill that his Majesty one day asked him to remove an agnail from one of his fingers.
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Eventually we were connected to Her Majesty's press office.
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Visit Aberdeen, with sights such as the Maritime Museum, the Lemon Tree, His Majesty's Theatre and great shops.
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Her Majesty later honoured the Headmaster with her presence at lunch.
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Legation at Teheran; Bill "devilled" for a famous barrister; Lionel wore her Majesty's livery.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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-- In this solemn and impressive prayer, in which they make public confession of their sins, and deprecate the judgments due to the transgressions of their fathers, they begin with a profound adoration of God, whose supreme majesty and omnipotence is acknowledged in the creation, preservation, and government of all.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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For the latter part of the power of the prerogative, or that whereby they are the supreme judicatory of this nation, and of the provinces of the same, the cognizances of crimes against the majesty of the people, such as high treason, as also of peculation, that is, robbery of the treasury, or defraudation of the commonwealth, appertains to this tribe.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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My master, the great Scholar Li K'ai-men heard these words from his lord and master, His Majesty, the Emperor Kao.
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Edward's is the first English royal seal to survive; the image of the king in majesty, enthroned with orb and sceptre, was borrowed from German models.
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Imagine having to stoop to that level - particularly after being ignored by Her Majesty for years.
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- While I was still under the almost first impression of grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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She made a formal declaration that her Majesty, with the assistance of Madame Campan, had packed up all her jewelry some time before the departure; that she was certain of it, as she had found the diamonds, and the cotton which served to wrap them, scattered upon the sofa in the Queen's closet in the 'entresol'; and most assuredly she could only have seen these preparations in the interval between seven in the evening and seven in the morning.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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That question is what your Majesty might call foxy," said one of the counselors, an old grey fox.
Love Letters
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If your Majesty considers it fitting to approve this so useful and even so necessary proposition, your bishop is of the opinion, as he has already intimated, that the see of the new bishopric can be determined, and that it may be entitled the bishopric of Panay or of Jaro -- which is a well-populated village, as I have said above.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
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Her Majesty had ordered Noakes and his wife Vivien to be given unprecedented access to her both at home and at work.
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Her Majesty does not like a duvet on her bed.
AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
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An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the East India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free.
Bob Cesca: The Weird Contradictions of the Tea Bag Revolution
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His majesty and beauty spoke to me in ways that no priest had ever been able to, and I was breathless from his presence.
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Francis had been at His Britannic Majesty's Embassy in Berlin for nine months.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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I was blown away by the beauty and majesty of the ensemble choir, who only got together for the first time some three days earlier.
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The letters still extant from the princes of the East to Sapor are manifest forgeries; 151 nor is it natural to suppose that a jealous monarch should, even in the person of a rival, thus publicly degrade the majesty of kings.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Butter "(for my lady, like her Majesty the Queen, was somewhat given to swearing, though more modest oaths, as should become a subject) --" I 'fecks, Butter, "saith she," 'tis a most lustick plot.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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Or Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown probably too art-housey for this list, which is a fine, upstanding film, as long as you ignore everything in it that pretends to be a historical fact.
Film
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Del buque de guerra el Candahar de la regna Ingleterra -- we belong to Her Majesty's ship, _Candahar_!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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Simply being a Royal Highness or Majesty today is not enough to earn such homage.
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Duff has indeed expressed the wish to be re-reunited with his old mucker after the latter finishes his spell in one of Her Majesty's penal institutions, noting: ‘I can't believe a stupid fight came to this.’
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Additionally, my morning train is also the same one Her Majesty's Prison Service uses to cart all their ex-cons back to London after they've served their time in one of the five prisons within ten miles of my house.
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For power to show itself in weakness, for glory to appear in baseness, for divinity to kythe (228) in humanity, and such glorious rays to break forth from under such a dark cloud, this was greater glory, and more majesty, than if he had only showed himself in the perfection of the creatures.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Mazards! how the diction of our orator is enriched from the vocabulary of Shakspeare! the word head, instead of being changed for a more general term, is here brought distinctly to the eye by the term mazard, or face, which is more appropriate to his majesty's profile than the word skull or head.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
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“But, Your Majesty,” he said, “I come here on behalf of your son, Prince Rurik!”
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
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However I do think that it is time that we were moving on and I also think that is the view of Her Majesty.
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This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
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The ball opened with a brantle which his Majesty danced with the duchess,
The Touchstone of Fortune
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That or hard time, very hard time, the hardest imaginable, in one of Her Majesty's most austere hostelries.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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It has been determined that the Abuna is to place the crown and ring upon Her Majesty, without the regal anointing, on the same day of the Emperor's coronation.
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Tall, dark trees rose in ordered majesty about the château, and before it a wide band of lawn, called a tapis vert, ran to the lodge-gates that opened on the highroad.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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He moved to live in Australia, he said to ease the pain of arthritis, although some intimated it was to escape the gaze of Her Majesty's Inspector Of Taxes.
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Majesty, John of Leyden, I doubt whether any Government has received or appointed so queer an ambassador.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Queen's Majesty is not pleased that I should molest her Highness with any more of my colourable letters, which, although they be termed colourable, yet not offending the Queen's Majesty, I must say for myself that it was the plain truth, even as I desire to be saved afore
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
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Majesty hopes, when the march-past is over, to receive a march-up of fair ladies.
Springhaven
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And to observe her Majesty's commands for the ten thousand pounds, we agreed he should take it out of the portion that was landed secretly, and to remove the same out of the place before my son Henry and I should come to the weighing and registering of what was left; and so it was done, and no creature living by me made privy to it but himself; and myself no privier to it than as you may perceive by this.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
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Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him.
Droll Stories — Volume 1
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So a historic visit was made, and His Majesty gave audience to the Prime Minister in his own home.
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“ 'Well, since I am disowned, and relegated to the sweepings,' the old man begins, draped in his sayon, and with a majesty that frightens us, 'you shall hear the crow sing!'
Frederic Mistral
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What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute!
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
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I am glad to have met you, Mrs Campbell," said Captain Lumley; "I found, on paying my respects to the Governor, that there is what they call the Admiralty House here, which is kept furnished by Government for the senior officers of his Majesty's ships.
The Settlers in Canada
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They said that their return to the motherland is part of the renewal of their allegiance to his majesty king Mohammed vi (a french - speaking daily “aujourd (hui le Maroc” reported on wednsday 27/12/2007)
Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest
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The dignity of the Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department is upheld once more.
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The boy genuflected in respect, ‘A pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty.’
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However often I saw it, I never ceased to be awed by its august power, majesty and beauty.
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And from this time began an intrigue between his Majesty and a junto of Ministers maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months.
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(A minim is the fortieth part of a crescent.) "Does your good Majesty mean to beggar me?" whined Pug.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Will your majesty permit me to call the footman, and ask him to hurry up the postilion?" said Madame von Berg, leaning out of the window.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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And, first, see you, sir — ye shall approach the presence of majesty thus, — shadowing your eyes with your hand, to testify that you are in the presence of the Vice-gerent of
The Fortunes of Nigel
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But is it only a matter of time before the majesty of the criminal law is invoked?
Times, Sunday Times
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A large chamber dwelled within a large castle that dwelled within a land of immense beauty and majesty.
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This is a rosebush, your majesty," Rose's mother replies.
A Royal Romp For the Little People
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Miss Letitia presided over the table in garrulous majesty.
The Window at the White Cat
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After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats!
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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How can we acknowledge the majesty and awesomeness of God with our nose stuck in a hymn book or liturgical program?
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Treasured by kings, wise men and people of discriminating taste for millennia, the aroma of frankincense and myrrh evokes feelings of warmth, comfort, majesty, reverence and peace.
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Several suggestions were made as to the best way by which Her Majesty could be placed in the carriage unprofaned by a single male eye.
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With its finely carved stonework and arched colonnades, this old building still possesses all the majesty of the middle ages.
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Your highness, even with our humble spread, we cannot think to exalt ourselves and sit by your majesty.
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But there is the beauty and majesty of the scenery.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was possibly the most important observation but it was just personal observation to sample the glory and the majesty of the galactic plain and the centre of the galaxy.
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It was his business to depict palaces and royal chapels, but he did not hesitate to show them without majesty - under scaffolds or being repaired.
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But, for the staff and patients who had the chance of a lifetime to speak to Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh, it was a moment that will be etched on their memories forever.
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Our illustration (Fig. 1) represents the kind of rafts supplied to her Majesty's troop ships, while Figs. 2 and 3 show deck seats convertible into rafts, which are intended for ordinary passenger steamers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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Hey, check out this Internet thing and see what all the fuss is about with a free introductory offer from Her Majesty's Government.
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No purple mountain majesty there and no alabaster city, just waves of grain and the Co-op Elevator.
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For the rest, as in enterprises of pith, a touch of stratagem often proves furthersome, his Majesty announces a Royal Hunt, for the
The French Revolution
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Majesty defamed, the honour of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
On The Art of Reading
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What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the
Les Misérables
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To suggest that it was an alternative to the Queen's Christmas message is frankly insulting to Her Majesty.
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Balafre observe that his Majesty had been unlucky in not having himself by his side instead of his nephew, as he would questionless have made in, and speared the brute, a matter which he understood Quentin had left upon his
Quentin Durward
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It's bad enough that he's forced to preside over four days of the Queen's jubilee coverage, but then he's attacked by BBC viewers for dissing Her Majesty.
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The Western Highlands possess a beauty and a majesty found nowhere else in Britain.
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So she journeyed home - gray clad among her flowers, drawn by four hundred hands - home to the cool nave between the long columns that were fingers raised, not in admonition, but in triumphant thanksgiving for mercy, majesty, and glory.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
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We know surprisingly little about vanished civilizations whose majesty and whose ultimate demise were closely linked to liberties they took with water.
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‘His majesty wishes you to come with me,’ he hissed trying to keep his patience, but failing.
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The title went to Her Majesty, and with it yet another flag - the Admiralty flag of a gold anchor on red.
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But the powers that saw to her Majesty's interests, and ruled the destinies of her lesser creatures, gave the mailmen little rest; for a week later they appeared at Stuart River, heavily burdened with letters for Salt Water.
An Odyssey of the North
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The very conception of truth was a new one, as a goddess not to be shielded behind the shades of hierophantic mystery, but rather to be sought in the free tumult and joyous strife of many voices, there vindicating her own majesty and marking her own children.
Voltaire
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Her Majesty toured the area and watched multicultural sports and activities.
Times, Sunday Times
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In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty.
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You may now see the cluster, and may not; but they will spread out in marching, and give a good chance to see her majesty, when a tumbler is the most convenient thing to set over her.
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
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When the time comes to say goodbye, you should once again address the Queen as Your Majesty.
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Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent
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Mrs. Eddy, with an envious and admiring eye upon the solitary and rivalless and world-shadowing majesty of St. Peter's, reveals in her
Christian Science
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By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable.
Lives of the Necromancers
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Her majesty also watched a mime and street dance performance from students at Welling School on the theme of life as a teenager.
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As all we who are bishops are informing his Majesty, those from whom that permission could with justice be taken away are the calced Augustinian friars; for this province of that order is very lax, and all who come from there become inactive, and most of them become traders, and skin the natives.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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After touring the hospital, Her Majesty unveiled a commemorative plaque.
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And as we see it in experience, that dogs do always bark at those they know not, and that it is their nature to accompany one another in those clamors: so it is with the inconsiderate multitude; who wanting that virtue which we call honesty in all men, and that especial gift of God which we call charity in Christian men, condemn without hearing, and wound without offence given: led thereunto by uncertain report only; which his Majesty truly acknowledged for the author of all lies.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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Watching from above, Her Majesty the Queen would have understood Dalton's unbearable sense of loss.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, your Majesty, but I think you vastly overrate my powers of persuasion.
TREASON KEEP
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Before that, the excitement of the opening ceremony and the sheer majesty of the Olympic experience will be theirs to relish.
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For a single theologian to stand up against the majesty and power of the hierarchical Church demanded quite unusual determination.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There was great love between them, and her Majesty, and of course the Queen Mother, are going to be completely bereft.
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'She passes on in unblenched majesty,' said Lady Delacour.
Belinda
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The awful majesty of God now will not be in the way to hinder perfect freedom and intimacy in the enjoyment of God.
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Gird thy sword upon thy thigh , O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
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Seeing Her Majesty was the one thing the sentimental wrinklies in our family wanted us to do while we're over here.
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If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption.
Dedication
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Louis's entry, then Conde's was a standard celebration of royal majesty, ‘an occasion to adulate the royal person
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It is a privilege and honour for me to lead such a flypast to celebrate Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee.
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Commissioner, that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up to settlement and immigration a tract of country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of her
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto
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First Love, owned by Her Majesty the Queen Mother, can add a Royal flavour to proceedings at Sandown tomorrow.
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If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused; I hope her Majesty will yet take my humble desire and my labour therein in gracious part, which, if it had not been in respect of her Highness 'future honour and riches, could have laid hands on and ransomed many of the kings and caciqui of the country, and have had a reasonable proportion of gold for their redemption.
The Discovery of Guiana
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His Majesty sold Fernando Torres to Chelsea for £50m and then outthought El Niño's new employers on the pitch with the help of a coach – Steve Clarke – who was formerly the chief defensive organiser for Roman Abramovich's mob.
What defines the great managers? Total control | Paul Hayward
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There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Miss Biddums obediently stooped to the lowest shelf of the _almirah_ and unearthed the big paper box in which His Majesty the King kept his dearest possessions.
Indian Tales
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-- ( "Spare," quotha, "is his majesty's officer a joint stool?") -- "Why, Mr. Kennedy, why? here, man, take a glass of grog.
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
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Her Majesty sits squat on her throne, her head crowned, a sceptre in one hand, an orb in the other, and two lions stretch submissively at the imperial feet while she stares with bronze eyes at the distant horizons of Empire.
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Walsingham replies, As Your Majesty instructed, we did not attempt to venture inside but we made a complete circumnavigation of the outer wall, which is, by the way, in good repair.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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There are days when the majesty, poise, skill, style, poetry and romance of Gaelic football just takes your breath away and then there are games like this when the opposite is the case.
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His stay was greatly honored by an audience with Her Majesty, Queen Sirikit.
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Thus clogged, the bill was sent home for sanction, but it was rejected by parliament, and sent back with instructions, that before it could receive his majesty's seal, it must appear wholly unencumbered with extraneous provisoes.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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I allow neither perduellion nor lese-majesty against my sovereign authority. ''
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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No response was sought by Mr Burrell from the Queen and Her Majesty made no comment.
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With his associated doc - trines of the total perversion of man and the incom - prehensible majesty of God, he banned, and had to ban, all ideas of a possible accommodation of God's com - mands to the needs of man: man was simply too low and mean, too near to zero in value and importance to deserve consideration, while God was too high up and too far away to concede it.
CASUISTRY
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Her Majesty could not help smiling at the awe-struck manner in which the quiet demure figure of the little Scotchwoman advanced towards her, and yet more at the first sound of her broad northern accent.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Let Hobart thrill to levees and martial parades of Her Majesty's arms, and fêtes champêtre served by liveried flunkeys.
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III. therefore, chap. 37. the exportation of gum senega from his majestys dominions in Africa was confined to Great Britain, and was subjected to all the same restrictions, regulations, forfeitures, and penalties, as that of the enumerated commodities of the British colonies in America and the West Indies.
VIII. Book IV. Conclusion of the Mercantile System
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If his recent spell as a guest of Her Majesty has not taught the talented youngster a lesson, that thought surely will.
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Yet there was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order.
Redgauntlet
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stipendiaries" as a "purely royal and liberal gift, which it would esteem as great and precious as if his Majesty had presented it an inestimable sum of silver or gold," other political motives prevented him from yielding to its entreaties.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The junta used lese-majesty as an excuse to stage the military coup that toppled Thaksin Shinawatra's government.
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A farmer has lost all his sheep, 300 lambs among them, shot by young men from Her Majesty's Armed Forces, whose sergeant had been reduced to hidden tears.
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(26 May) was thought a fitting opportunity for asking for a further loan of £100,000 to enable her majesty to pay and "gratify" the seamen who had so gallantly warded off invasion and to refit the fleet.
London and the Kingdom - Volume II
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In 1986 Her Majesty agreed to comply with the advice proffered to her by the Lords regarding abeyant peerages.
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Colonel Grahame, you will permit him to honour me with his society, and to take his poor disjune here, especially considering, that even his most sacred Majesty did not pass the Tower of Tillietudlem without halting to partake of some refreshment.”
Old Mortality
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So as you reflect on the glory and the majesty of Easter, be open to the Lord.
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The queens majesty then living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her.
Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5
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Her Majesty, dressed in canary yellow, watched it all from her catbird seat in the mezzanine.
William and Kate
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European Ballet is, however, one of the few and their high quality productions have brought the magic of ballet to audiences previously unexposed to such majesty.
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It was braced by four buttresses which were called cavaliers, and cost your Majesty a large sum, as
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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In Britain judges arbitrated on the fate of the convicted during the trial and used their powers of mercy to demonstrate the majesty of the law to a wider populace.
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This, whispers Her Ladyship, is where Her Majesty the Queen brings her most distinguished dinner guests for their postprandial entertainment.
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I think there's a majesty in it that makes it redemptive.
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Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint: but in times wherein I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent invention, the name of his Majesty defamed, the Honour of Parliament depraved, the Writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly imprinted; complaints may seem ridiculous in private persons; and men of my condition may be as incapable of affronts, as hopeless of their reparations.
Religio Medici
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The company's Queen's Award was approved by Her Majesty in April last year in acknowledgement of export excellence.
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The photograph captures the sunset in all its majesty.
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Part of their power is their ability to evoke the sublime for their visitors by affirming a sense of patriotism and awe in the majesty of a building so grand and permanent in the landscape.
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Suddenly the solemnity of the occasion and the majesty of its setting overcame everyone and reverential silence descended.
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‘Your Majesty,’ she began, but he cut her off with a gesture, a wave of a hand that was clearly royal.
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Given the mood Her Majesty must be in where dates are concerned, he did well to get the nod.
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It's another thing to be out in creation in some way or another and experience and encounter God's beauty or majesty or splendor or power.
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Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras.
Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
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What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can today blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and tomorrow into the reed-flute!
Les Miserables
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And he is said here to "ascend far above all heavens," -- that is, these visible and aspectable heavens, which he passed through when he went into the glorious presence of God, or unto the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Pneumatologia
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All, I may remind you, a reflection of sea power and of the immense importance of the dominant role played by His Majesty's navies from the homeland and from the Dominion of Canada.
The Plans Unfold
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A spokesman for the Palace confirmed that Her Majesty would be visiting South Africa next year.
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Counter-charges of lese-majesty were filed against Prime Minister Thaksin.
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Whether they were struck with awe by the unaccustomed majesty of my appearance in brand-new wig, bands, &c., in which I am fresh as a daisy, and fine as a carrot fresh scraped, or whether they simply did not recognise me in the disguisement of such toggeries, I am not to decide -- but they passed by without responding visibly to my salutations.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never quailed before all the fiery majesty of Zeus.
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“Did I not tell you,” said Lady Margaret to her principal female attendant — “did I not tell you, Mysie, that it was my especial pleasure on this occasion to have every thing in the precise order wherein it was upon that famous morning when his most sacred majesty partook of his disjune at Tillietudlem?”
Old Mortality
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On the Imperial Capital planet Kaitain the young planetologist Pardot Kynes has just arrived from his homeworld of Salusa Secundus for an audience with the Padishah Emperor his majesty Elrood Corrino IX.
Planet-x.com.au » Science Anderson
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All these amendments, and several others, having been lost in Committee, the original resolution moved by Mr. Cartwright, to revest the clergy reserves in Her Majesty, for "the support of the Christian religion in this Province," was adopted by a majority of three or four.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
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It always portrays the Church as powerful, ominous, mysterious, bound to tradition, wealthy, adorned with beauty and majesty, steeped in history, dogmatic and unmodernized, with an iron-fisted attachment to a world gone by,
The Music in Angels and Demons
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The glory of God is the "augustness" of God-an old term conveying his awe-inspiring majesty.
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To control the streets, the police bring to bear the full majesty of the law.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was so immense it did not twist like the others but in supreme majesty made its way down the turbulent chute.
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You and I shall become a good team working for the good of our sovereign lord, His Majesty, may he live ten thousand years.
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It wasn't the first time she'd been in the judgement court, but the majesty of it always filled her with awe.
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God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
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Entirely unaware of His Majesty's unerring aim in hitting large surfaces at short range, we welcomed him cordially to our midst, and rather unwisely presented him with the freedom of the jungle, a ceremony which carried with it the privilege of bagging anything he could hit with his slungshot, in season or out of it.
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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Majesty; and an alto-relievo representing an ascending spirit attended by a guardian angel with the inscription --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831
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Company, Limited, (thereinafter called the Company) of the one part, and the Right Honourable Edward John Lord Stanley of Alderley, Her Majesty's
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time