Miss Sally May Saabye, ( Miss Rhode Island 1960 ) says that within a short time -- on June 17th -- her reign will come to an end.

Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.

Also, Mary, Queen of Scots, visited nearby Inchmahome Priory often as a child, and during her short reign.

She also used the priory during her short reign, particularly in 1547, where she felt safe from the English Army.

Co-emperor alongside his brothers, his short reign saw the beginnings of conflict emerge between the sons of Constantine the Great, and his attempt to exert his perceived rights of primogeniture ended up causing his death in a failed invasion of Italy in 340.

Áed's short reign is glossed as being of no importance by most king lists.

The short reign of Julian could not improve matters.

Following the short reign of Pertinax, several rivals for the emperorship emerged, including Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus.

During his short reign of three years, Abijah went to considerable lengths to bring the Kingdom of Israel back under his control.

Chronicler John Malalas, who lived during the reign of Justinian, tells of his appearance that he was short, fair skinned, curly haired, round faced and handsome.

But his reign was short, and he died of an illness in 1100.

The first laws of the kingdom were, according to tradition, established during Godfrey of Bouillon's short reign, but were more probably established by Baldwin II at the Council of Nablus in 1120.

At the beginning of that reign Malesherbes during his short ministry endeavoured to infuse some measure of justice into the system, and in March 1784 the baron de Breteuil, a minister of the king's household, addressed a circular to the intendants and the lieutenant of police with a view to preventing the most serious abuses connected with the issue of lettres de cachet.

During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus.

Catholic historians, such as John Lingard, thought Mary's policies failed not because they were wrong but because she had too short a reign to establish them and because of natural disasters beyond her control.

However, his first papal reign was a short one.

Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.

Prior to his short papacy, he had been a Canon Lawyer, diplomat, and chief administrator during the reign of Pope Gregory XIV ( 1590 – 1591 ).

The reign of Alfonso II from ( 791-842 ) saw further expansion of the northwest kingdom towards the south and, for a short time, it almost reached Lisbon.

History is short, however, and in Swaziland's case is punctuated with a 65 year reign ( including a 23 year regency ) of Sobhuza II of Swaziland.

Macrinus managed to escape ito Chalcedon but his authority was lost: he was betrayed and executed after a short reign of just 14 months.

During the short reign ( 1494 – 1498 ) of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, the city of Florence could have been considered a theocracy.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

His steps were short and stiff, and, with his head thrown back, his progress was a supercilious strut.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.

There was a short pause for reflection.

One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.

In short, scientific sampling was introduced in place of subjective sampling.

In short, it was centered around learning how to develop a more sensitive empathy.