"Regal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such a face and figure," exclaims Borrow, "both regal—why, you look like Ingeborg, Queen of Norway; she had twelve brothers, you know, and could lick them ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper
... Throughout the regal times, and far into the republican, the chief domestic incidents turn on the strife of the upper caste or patricians with the lower or plebeians, manifesting itself by the latter asserting their right to a share in the lands ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper
... on their brows, their faces set Toward the eternal night of restless shapes, They walk in awful splendor, regal yet, Wearing their crimes like rich and kingly capes . . . Curse them or taunt, they will not hear or see; The Kings are passing deathward: let ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... a chariot from Heaven comes, While halves rise from yonder sapphire domes; A chariot incrusted with bright gems, A blaze of glory shines from diadems. See! in the car the queen o'er Tammuz bends, And nearer the procession slowly wends, Her regal diadem with tears is dimmed; And her bright form by sorrow is redeemed To sweeter, holier beauty in her woe; Her tears a halo form and ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous
... written after Caesar had fallen. We are left, indeed, to judge, from the whole nature of the discourse, that it was written at the period in which the wrongs done by Caesar to Rome—wrongs at any rate as they appeared to Cicero—were just culminating in that regal pride of action which led to his slaughter. It was written then, but was published a ...
— The Life of Cicero - Volume II. • Anthony Trollope
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