Sample Sentences forHenry VIII (auto-selected)
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Once enclosed by King Henry VIII and stocked with deer for the hunt, St. James's Park is now open to the public.† (source)
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Finally, swaying like Henry VIII after one of his gorging feasts, I went up to the cash register counter.† (source)
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I tried to find a comfortable spot in an upholstered chair that looked like it could have belonged to Henry VIII.† (source)
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Hall described Henry VIII.† (source)
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In Britain, the ambitious Cardinal Wolsey, prime minister to Henry VIII, wanted to become pope.† (source)
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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)
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This stern-countenanced invalid was the dread Henry VIII.† (source)
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Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had a abbess on his knee.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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—SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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It seemed to her idiotic not to have remembered Henry VIII and the basis upon which Protestantism rests.† (source)
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In Henry VIII, I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid.† (source)
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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)
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