Meanings of foreign potentate in English

The letter-forit was a letter from a foreign potentate-wasreceived six days ago.

We need no foreign potentate to tell us what we may think or say.

The flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal.

Elisha is ashamed that the King of Israel should have exhibited such weakness before a foreign potentate.

Both had higher objects of ambition than to become the humble and well-paid servants of a foreign potentate.

The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country.

For the Pope he cares no whit; his British blood causes him to think scorn of any foreign potentate, temporal or spiritual.

The supreme head of the church was a foreign potentate, guided by interests always different from those of the community, sometimes contrary to them.

But he who would deprive himself of every chance of success should have recourse to auxiliaries; that is, to the troops of a foreign potentate.

They reinforced their garrisons, purchased supplies, and solicited succours from foreign potentates.

He had received from foreign potentates various large sums of money and other presents.

Finally, he died in Newgate, where he was imprisoned for various libels on foreign potentates.

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He had received presents from foreign potentates.

Woe to the republic whose citizens require laws to prevent them from becoming stipendiaries of foreign potentates!

There is not in the hearts of foreign potentates the same affection towards my person as you feel.