Henry VIIIin a sentence
- Once enclosed by King Henry VIII and stocked with deer for the hunt, St. James's Park is now open to the public.† (source)
- I tried to find a comfortable spot in an upholstered chair that looked like it could have belonged to Henry VIII.† (source)
- I wandered through the ancient Greek and Egyptian galleries, but my favorite spot was the manuscript room, with letters written by the kings and queens of England, Henry VIII and poor Anne Boleyn, and Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.† (source)
- In Britain, the ambitious Cardinal Wolsey, prime minister to Henry VIII, wanted to become pope.† (source)
- Finally, swaying like Henry VIII after one of his gorging feasts, I went up to the cash register counter.† (source)
- This stern-countenanced invalid was the dread Henry VIII.† (source)
- Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had a abbess on his knee.† (source)
- In the reign of Henry VIII. poisoners were, by Act of Parliament, condemned to be BOILED TO DEATH.† (source)
- It was not till the end of this reign (Henry VIII.† (source)
- It traced its origin to an abbey school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were taught by Augustine monks; and, like many another establishment of this sort, on the destruction of the monasteries it had been reorganised by the officers of King Henry VIII and thus acquired its name.† (source)
- It seemed to her idiotic not to have remembered Henry VIII and the basis upon which Protestantism rests.† (source)
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- Hall described Henry VIII.† (source)
- I don't mean to say that you would ever have known that Leonora knew anything, but if Florence started to tell us how Ludwig the Courageous wanted to have three wives at once—in which he differed from Henry VIII, who wanted them one after the other, and this caused a good deal of trouble—if Florence started to tell us this, Leonora would just nod her head in a way that quite pleasantly rattled my poor wife.† (source)
- From the red and white roses proceeded a stem, which reached up to a second stage, occupied by Henry VIII.† (source)
- Had Henry VIII. survived a few hours longer, his order for the duke's execution would have been carried into effect.† (source)
- About five o'clock Henry VIII. awoke out of an unrefreshing nap, and muttered to himself, "Troublous dreams, troublous dreams!† (source)
- The ground on which the Priory of the Grey Friars stood was conferred by Henry VIII. on the Corporation of London (who caused the institution there of a home for poor boys and girls).† (source)
- To the rest of the world the name of Henry VIII. brought a shiver, and suggested an ogre whose nostrils breathed destruction and whose hand dealt scourgings and death; but to this boy the name brought only sensations of pleasure; the figure it invoked wore a countenance that was all gentleness and affection.† (source)
- It can regulate or new-model the succession to the Crown; as was done in the reign of Henry VIII and William III.† (source)
- It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of Tiberius, or of Henry VIII.† (source)
- In Henry VIII, I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.† (source)
- —SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII.† (source)
- We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands.† (source)
- If it had been as easy to remove the jury from the manners as from the laws of England, it would have perished under Henry VIII, and Elizabeth, and the civil jury did in reality, at that period, save the liberties of the country.† (source)
- Henry VIII, the Defender of the Faith, seized upon the monastery and its possessions and hanged and tortured some of the monks who could not accommodate themselves to the pace of his reform.† (source)
- It can alter the established religion of the land; as was done in a variety of instances in the reigns of King Henry VIII and his three children.† (source)
- /To loan/, in the American sense of to lend, is in 34 and 35 Henry VIII, but it dropped out of use in England early in the eighteenth century, and all the leading dictionaries, both English and American, now call it an Americanism.† (source)
- The ambitious cardinal, who was prime minister to Henry VIII.† (source)
- Henry VIII.† (source)
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