Meanings of little kingdoms in English

All these male private schools are run like little kingdoms, he said.

How many petty princes have you restored to their little kingdoms?

It is generally divided into several little kingdoms, all which obey one sovereign emperor.

From being a dozen little kingdoms, Britain now became one.

From these three little kingdoms that are named the Inner Lands the young men stole constantly away.

Spain had been divided into four little kingdoms: Leon, Castile, Aragon, and Granada, the latter ruled by the Moors.

Smooth,' says he, 'what in the name of changes be you going to do with so many little kingdoms?

It is so that men make little kingdoms for themselves, and an international power undarkened by diplomacy, undirected by parliaments.

Once they got an ocean between them and their king, they decided to set themselves up in their own little kingdoms.

Kings of little kingdoms fought together, and the young Sun shone like fire on the red metal of their new and greedy swords.

It is, as the sentimentalists say, like a little kingdom, and, like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of something resembling anarchy.

In eight hundred and sixty-one, when he began to reign, Norway was divided into thirty-one little kingdoms, over each of which ruled a little king.

Barry launched his career with the award-winning These are Little Kingdoms in 2007.

Little kingdoms were just morsels to it -tidbitslike Pergamon and Caria, easily swallowed.

Festival and There Are Little Kingdoms at the Granary Theatre in Cork New Ross Piano Festival

I also enjoy short stories and Kevin Barry's There Are Little Kingdoms is next on my list.