The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

Worried all women will learn from this, Ahasuerus removes her as queen and has a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue.

The French army of 15, 000 men took ground exactly opposite in a similar formation, cavalry on the wings, infantry, including the townsmen ( milice des communes ) in the center, Philip with the cavalry reserve and the royal standard, the Oriflamme, in rear of the men on foot.

This system later gradually developed into a system with a royal judge nominating a number of the most esteemed men of the parish as his board, fulfilling the function of " the people " of yore.

A similar gender switch occurred among some men close to the royal court.

Charlemagne actively sought to amass scholarly men around him and established a royal school led by the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin.

After an education at various schools around the United Kingdom and spending parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, Harry eschewed a university education in favour of following in the footsteps of various royal men by enrolling in the military.

Now master of Jezreel, Jehu wrote to the chief men in the capital Samaria, and commanded them to count the heads of all the royal princes of the kingdom.

Seen more critically, John may have been motivated by the potential of the royal legal process to raise fees, rather than a desire to deliver simple justice ; John's legal system also only applied to free men, rather than to all of the population.

Many barons perceived the king's household as what Ralph Turner has characterised as a " narrow clique enjoying royal favour at barons ' expense " staffed by men of lesser status.

This trend for the king to rely on his own men at the expense of the barons was exacerbated by the tradition of Angevin royal ira et malevolentia – " anger and ill-will " – and John's own personality.

In secret, while the Senate debated his request, the ambassadors met with and subverted a number of the leading men of Rome to the royal cause, in the Tarquinian conspiracy.

Bernard of Clairvaux wrote to Honorius asking him to intervene on behalf of both men and support church independence over the claims of royal jurisdiction and interference.

Rockingham assumed the Premiership " on the distinct understanding that measures were to be changed as well as men ; and that the measures for which the new ministry required the royal consent were the measures which they, while in opposition, had advocated.

Henry had increased the authority and capabilities of the central royal administration, often bringing in " new men " to fulfil key positions rather than using the established nobility.

As it was customary during this time for royal couples to lead separate lives — commonly marrying simply to preserve bloodlines and to secure political alliances — men and women would often seek gratification and companionship from people living at court.

It is generally considered inappropriate for a man to remove his jacket during a formal social event, but when hot weather and humidity dictate, the ranking man ( of the royal family, the guest of honor ) may give men permission by noticeably taking off his jacket.

These young men are in fact Guiderius and Arviragus, who themselves do not know their origin, but are nevertheless possessed of royal passion and heartiness.

Between 1166 and 1179 new procedures including a division of functions between the sheriff, the jury of local men, and the royal justices ushered in the era of the English Common Law.

After his accession as Elector, he reduced the size of the royal household and began with the establishment of a small standing army of 12, 000 men, after the model of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and managed to extract from the states of the realm a commitment to contribute funds.

Owain's men ambushed the royal army in a narrow, wooded valley, routing it completely with King Henry himself narrowly avoiding capture.

According to Nyrop, up until the 20th century, " it seldom or never takes place between men, with the exception, however, of royal personages ," although he notes that in former times the " friendly kiss was very common with us between man and man as well as between persons of opposite sexes.

John sailed from England on 9 July 1386 with a huge Anglo-Portuguese fleet, carrying an army of about 5, 000 men plus an extensive ' royal ' household and his wife and daughters.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

In the very front rank, two men were wounded and staggered along, trailing blood behind them.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

The breasts may enlarge and discharge milk, in both men and women due to abnormally-high levels of prolactin in the blood.

Equal dosages of alcohol consumed by men and women generally result in women having higher blood alcohol concentrations ( BACs ).

2: 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men ’ s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

They are also found in the Heimskringla and in The Saga of Thorstein, Viking's Son accounts of a line of local kings who ruled over Álfheim, and since they had elven blood they were said to be more beautiful than most men.

Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

We have to walk, and when we give the men any thing kneel, in blood and water ; but we think nothing of it at all.

Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell ; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenceless on the lower steps of the portico.

Julian writes, " when Zeus was setting all things in order there fell from him drops of sacred blood, and from them, as they say, arose the race of men.

This blood was swallowed by a washer woman, who gave birth to Chen Jinggu ( 陈靖姑 ) or Lady Linshui ( 临水夫人 ); the hair was turned into a female white snake and sexually used men and killed rival women.

Dante and Virgil, his guide, encounter the beast first among those damned for their violent natures, the " men of blood ".

The tower always collapsed before completion, and his wise men told him the only solution was to sprinkle the foundation with the blood of a child born without a father.

Alexander VII confirmed that they were too, by the bull Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem ( 16 October 1656 ) declaring that five propositions extracted by a group of theologians from the Sorbonne out of Jansen's work, mostly concerning grace and the fallen nature of man, were heretical, including the proposition according to which to say " that Christ died, or shed His blood for all men " would be a semipelagian error.

" At his burial a thousand men, in files, preceded the corpse, which was adorned with bunches of rosemary dipped in blood ; on each side rode three trumpeters, and behind was led the trooper ’ s horse, covered with mourning ; some thousands of men and women followed with black and green ribbons on their heads and breasts, and were received at the grave by a numerous crowd of the inhabitants of London and Westminster.

These Protestants add that " eating and drinking " is sometimes used metaphorically, as of Jeremiah " eating " God's words (), or David speaking of water as blood, since it was obtained at the risk of the lives of his men ().

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.

In Hungarian and Balkan mythology, many werewolves were said to be vampiric witches who became wolves in order to suck the blood of men born under the full moon in order to preserve their health.

These were fashioned like sprinklers, and with them were to be smeared all over with blood the pedestals of the idols and also the walls of the temple within and without ; and likewise the men present were to be sprinkled with blood.