1
It was a vast loss to his country; no modern monarch has shown so striking a likeness to Marcus Aurelius.
2
I trod the upper deck with all the pride, and more than the composure, of a modern monarch on his throne.
3
No modern monarch can be much exalted by hearing that, as Hercules had his "club" he has his "navy."
4
He likened the government's bill to convert EU law into domestic law to a power grab by the early modern monarch who dissolved parliament.
5
The colony had grown great, and, like some modern monarchs, he proposed to make it pay for its success.