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sovereign
used in War and Peace

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of a person:  a nation's ruler or head of state

of a political body:  not controlled by outside forces
  • The sovereigns will not be able to endure this man who is a menace to everything.
    Book One — 1805 (13% in)
  • Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.
    Book One — 1805 (1% in)
  • Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him.
    Book One — 1805 (2% in)
  • The sovereigns?
    Book One — 1805 (14% in)
  • I do not speak of Russia," said the vicomte, polite but hopeless: "The sovereigns, madame....
    Book One — 1805 (14% in)
  • The sovereigns!
    Book One — 1805 (14% in)
  • God grant that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His goodness, to give us as sovereign!
    Book One — 1805 (82% in)
  • But it will please our sovereign the Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take it!'
    Book Two — 1805 (56% in)
  • Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still stronger flow of love for his sovereign.
    Book Three — 1805 (49% in)
  • "Not 'our Sovereign, the Emperor,' as they say at official dinners," said he, "but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and great man!
    Book Three — 1805 (59% in)
  • "Not 'our Sovereign, the Emperor,' as they say at official dinners," said he, "but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and great man!
    Book Three — 1805 (59% in)
  • "Lads! here's to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over our enemies!
    Book Three — 1805 (59% in)
  • To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by a real desire for peace.
    Book Three — 1805 (60% in)
  • Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of.
    Book Three — 1805 (67% in)
  • And in order to realize vividly his love devotion to the sovereign, Rostov pictured to himself an enemy or a deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom he would slap in the face before the Emperor.
    Book Three — 1805 (69% in)
  • "Lads!" shouted Miloradovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of battle, and by the sight of the gallant Apsherons, his comrades in Suvorov's time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he forgot the sovereigns' presence.
    Book Three — 1805 (83% in)
  • This horse that had carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the Empress' Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor of the nearness of the Emperor Francis' black cob, nor of all that was being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider.
    Book Three — 1805 (83% in)
  • All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a message to Kutuzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself.
    Book Three — 1805 (87% in)
  • Those speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved.
    Book Three — 1805 (94% in)
  • He might.... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign.
    Book Three — 1805 (94% in)
  • These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people.
    Book Four — 1806 (20% in)
  • He was seated in the place of honor between two Alexanders—Bekleshev and Naryshkin—which was a significant allusion to the name of the sovereign.
    Book Four — 1806 (28% in)
  • "To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he cried, and at the same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm.
    Book Four — 1806 (29% in)
  • "To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he roared, "Hurrah!" and emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor.
    Book Four — 1806 (29% in)
  • The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that evening was this: "Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter.
    Book Five — 1806-07 (27% in)
  • Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal.
    Book Five — 1806-07 (87% in)
  • Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte.
    Book Five — 1806-07 (87% in)
  • 'I am happy when I can do good, but to remedy injustice is the greatest happiness,' " Rostov fancied the sovereign saying.
    Book Five — 1806-07 (91% in)
  • And the feeling of enthusiasm and love for his sovereign rose again in Rostov's soul in all its old force.
    Book Five — 1806-07 (93% in)
  • When the old man began to speak too loud, Speranski smiled and said he could not judge of the advantage or disadvantage of what pleased the sovereign.
    Book Six — 1808-10 (16% in)
  • But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle.
    Book Six — 1808-10 (60% in)
  • The Sovereign plainly said that the Council and Senate are estates of the realm, he said that the government must rest not on authority but on secure bases.
    Book Six — 1808-10 (64% in)
  • He cannot endure the notion that Buonaparte is negotiating on equal terms with all the sovereigns of Europe and particularly with our own, the grandson of the Great Catherine!
    Book Six — 1808-10 (95% in)
  • Incidents were related evidently confirming the opinion that everything was going from bad to worse, but whether telling a story or giving an opinion the speaker always stopped, or was stopped, at the point beyond which his criticism might touch the sovereign himself.
    Book Eight — 1811-12 (14% in)
  • Our sovereign alone has protested against the seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's territory, and even...."
    Book Eight — 1811-12 (15% in)
  • All the efforts of those who surrounded the sovereign seemed directed merely to making him spend his time pleasantly and forget that war was impending.
    Book Nine — 1812 (9% in)
  • Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so called Russian type of beauty.
    Book Nine — 1812 (10% in)
  • Boris noticed Arakcheev's excited face when the sovereign went out with Balashev.
    Book Nine — 1812 (11% in)
  • He said that the Emperor Alexander did not consider Kurakin's demand for his passports a sufficient cause for war; that Kurakin had acted on his own initiative and without his sovereign's assent, that the Emperor Alexander did not desire war, and had no relations with England.
    Book Nine — 1812 (21% in)
  • Yes, I know you have made peace with the Turks without obtaining Moldavia and Wallachia; I would have given your sovereign those provinces as I gave him Finland.
    Book Nine — 1812 (23% in)
  • A sovereign should not be with the army unless he is a general!" said Napoleon, evidently uttering these words as a direct challenge to the Emperor.
    Book Nine — 1812 (24% in)
  • Arakcheev was a faithful custodian to enforce order and acted as the sovereign's bodyguard.
    Book Nine — 1812 (37% in)
  • The seventh party consisted of the sort of people who are always to be found, especially around young sovereigns, and of whom there were particularly many round Alexander—generals and imperial aides-de-camp passionately devoted to the Emperor, not merely as a monarch but as a man, adoring him sincerely and disinterestedly, as Rostov had done in 1805, and who saw in him not only all the virtues but all human capabilities as well.
    Book Nine — 1812 (40% in)
  • These men, though enchanted with the sovereign for refusing the command of the army, yet blamed him for such excessive modesty, and only desired and insisted that their adored sovereign should abandon his diffidence and openly announce that he would place himself at the head of the army, gather round him a commander in chief's staff, and, consulting experienced theoreticians and practical men where necessary, would himself lead the troops, whose spirits would thereby be raised to the...
    Book Nine — 1812 (41% in)
  • These men, though enchanted with the sovereign for refusing the command of the army, yet blamed him for such excessive modesty, and only desired and insisted that their adored sovereign should abandon his diffidence and openly announce that he would place himself at the head of the army, gather round him a commander in chief's staff, and, consulting experienced theoreticians and practical men where necessary, would himself lead the troops, whose spirits would thereby be raised to the...
    Book Nine — 1812 (41% in)
  • ...chiefly from the Emperor's presence in the army with his military court and from the consequent presence there of an indefinite, conditional, and unsteady fluctuation of relations, which is in place at court but harmful in an army; that a sovereign should reign but not command the army, and that the only way out of the position would be for the Emperor and his court to leave the army; that the mere presence of the Emperor paralyzed the action of fifty thousand men required to secure...
    Book Nine — 1812 (42% in)
  • In this letter, availing himself of permission given him by the Emperor to discuss the general course of affairs, he respectfully suggested—on the plea that it was necessary for the sovereign to arouse a warlike spirit in the people of the capital—that the Emperor should leave the army.
    Book Nine — 1812 (43% in)
  • That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his call to them to defend their country—the very incitement which was the chief cause of Russia's triumph in so far as it was produced by the Tsar's personal presence in Moscow—was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a pretext for quitting the army.
    Book Nine — 1812 (43% in)
  • This letter had not yet been presented to the Emperor when Barclay, one day at dinner, informed Bolkonski that the sovereign wished to see him personally, to question him about Turkey, and that Prince Andrew was to present himself at Bennigsen's quarters at six that evening.
    Book Nine — 1812 (43% in)
  • He nodded hurriedly in reply to Chernyshev, and smiled ironically on hearing that the sovereign was inspecting the fortifications that he, Pfuel, had planned in accord with his theory.
    Book Nine — 1812 (45% in)
  • The Emperor was following him, and Bennigsen had hastened on to make some preparations and to be ready to receive the sovereign.
    Book Nine — 1812 (47% in)
  • At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.
    Book Nine — 1812 (52% in)
  • Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel!
    Book Nine — 1812 (76% in)
  • The words that had struck him in the Emperor's appeal—that the sovereign was coming to the capital for consultation with his people—strengthened this idea.
    Book Nine — 1812 (93% in)
  • We have been summoned to reply to the appeal with which our sovereign the Emperor has honored us.
    Book Nine — 1812 (95% in)
  • "Our sovereign the Emperor will be here in a moment," said Rostopchin.
    Book Nine — 1812 (98% in)
  • He wrote to Arakcheev, the Emperor's confidant: "It must be as my sovereign pleases, but I cannot work with the Minister (meaning Barclay).
    Book Ten — 1812 (3% in)
  • I thought I was really serving my sovereign and the Fatherland, but it turns out that I am serving Barclay.
    Book Ten — 1812 (3% in)
  • It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all.
    Book Ten — 1812 (17% in)
  • This is painful, but, loving my benefactor and sovereign, I submit.
    Book Ten — 1812 (18% in)
  • At Anna Pavlovna's they talked with perplexity of Bonaparte's successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pavlovna was the representative.
    Book Ten — 1812 (18% in)
  • "And what I am so pleased about," he went on, "is that our sovereign has given him full powers over all the armies and the whole region—powers no commander in chief ever had before.
    Book Ten — 1812 (20% in)
  • "No, that's impossible," said he, "for our sovereign appreciated him so highly before."
    Book Ten — 1812 (20% in)
  • "They even say," remarked the "man of great merit" who did not yet possess courtly tact, "that his excellency made it an express condition that the sovereign himself should not be with the army."
    Book Ten — 1812 (20% in)
  • In that reunion of great sovereigns we should have discussed our interests like one family, and have rendered account to the peoples as clerk to master.
    Book Ten — 1812 (98% in)
  • I should have demanded the freedom of all navigable rivers for everybody, that the seas should be common to all, and that the great standing armies should be reduced henceforth to mere guards for the sovereigns.
    Book Ten — 1812 (98% in)
  • And after the adjutant comes the commissary general asking where the stores are to be taken, and the chief of the hospitals asks where the wounded are to go, and a courier from Petersburg brings a letter from the sovereign which does not admit of the possibility of abandoning Moscow, and the commander in chief's rival, the man who is undermining him (and there are always not merely one but several such), presents a new project diametrically opposed to that of turning to the Kaluga...
    Book Eleven — 1812 (5% in)
  • But I," he paused, "by the authority entrusted to me by my Sovereign and country, order a retreat."
    Book Eleven — 1812 (9% in)
  • The Empress Elisabeth, however, when asked what instructions she would be pleased to give—with her characteristic Russian patriotism had replied that she could give no directions about state institutions for that was the affair of the sovereign, but as far as she personally was concerned she would be the last to quit Petersburg.
    Book Twelve — 1812 (1% in)
  • Most Gracious Sovereign and Emperor!
    Book Twelve — 1812 (5% in)
  • *(2) * Our most gracious sovereign.
    Book Twelve — 1812 (11% in)
  • The source of this contradiction lies in the fact that the historians studying the events from the letters of the sovereigns and the generals, from memoirs, reports, projects, and so forth, have attributed to this last period of the war of 1812 an aim that never existed, namely that of cutting off and capturing Napoleon with his marshals and his army.
    Book Fourteen — 1812 (94% in)
  • The old man, experienced in court as well as in military affairs—this same Kutuzov who in August had been chosen commander in chief against the sovereign's wishes and who had removed the Grand Duke and heir—apparent from the army—who on his own authority and contrary to the Emperor's will had decided on the abandonment of Moscow, now realized at once that his day was over, that his part was played, and that the power he was supposed to hold was no longer his.
    Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (17% in)
  • The diplomatists think that their disagreements are the cause of this fresh pressure of natural forces; they anticipate war between their sovereigns; the position seems to them insoluble.
    Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (42% in)
  • What was needed was a sense of justice and a sympathy with European affairs, but a remote sympathy not dulled by petty interests; a moral superiority over those sovereigns of the day who co-operated with him; a mild and attractive personality; and a personal grievance against Napoleon.
    Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (43% in)
  • But in Europe a reaction occurred and the sovereigns once again all began to oppress their subjects.
    Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (75% in)

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