king (n.)
- ace
- banker
- baron
- bishop
- bower
- businessman
- cards
- castle
- chessman
- chief
- chieftain
- clubs
- czar
- deck
- deuce
- diamonds
- director
- dummy
- dynast
- emir
- emperor
- enterpriser
- entrepreneur
- financier
- flush
- hand
- hearts
- honcho
- imperator
- industrialist
- jack
- joker
- khan
- kinglet
- knave
- knight
- lead
- luminary
- magnate
- majesty
- man
- manager
- mogul
- monarch
- overlord
- pack
- pair
- pawn
- piece
- potentate
- prince
- princeling
- principal
- queen
- regent
- rook
- round
- royal
- royalty
- rubber
- ruff
- ruler
- sheikh
- singleton
- sovereign
- spades
- star
- straight
- superstar
- suzerain
- trey
- trick
- trump
- tycoon
king (v.)
king (adv.)
king (adj.)
Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.
In King Cambyses' vein.
A cat may looke on a King.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, . . . the city of the great King.
The play's the thing
Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!
Cotton is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
Now the king drinks to Hamlet.
Blessing on him who invented sleep,—the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise.—Jarvis's translation.
Ay, every inch a king.
I hope, said Colonel Titus, we shall not be wise as the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To trust expedients with such a king on the throne would be just as wise as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fastening the door to keep him out.—On the Exclusion Bill, Jan. 7, 1681.
Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king!
If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier:
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
God bless the King,—I mean the faith's defender!
God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender!
But who pretender is, or who is king,—
God bless us all!—that's quite another thing.
God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!
God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly,
Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing;
Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly,
And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king.
Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whose word no man relies on;
He never says a foolish thing,
Nor ever does a wise one.
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
The King is dead! Long live the King!
God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!
Now let us sing, Long live the king!
And Gilpin, Long live he!
And when he next doth ride abroad,
May I be there to see!
'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.
Never king dropped out of the clouds.
Not only hating David, but the king.
But yonder comes the powerful king of day,
Rejoicing in the east.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
The King of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men;
The King of France came down the hill,
And ne'er went up again.
Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North.
If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.
A king of shreds and patches.
A mockery king of snow.
The king of terrors.
The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Letters of Junius. Letter xxxv.
The king reigns, but does not govern.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait!
Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing,
They mock the air with idle state.
They love their land because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why;
Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,
And think it kindness to his Majesty.
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
King Stephen was a worthy peer,
His breeches cost him but a crown;
He held them sixpence all too dear,—
With that he called the tailor lown.
King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a croune;
He held them sixpence all too deere,
Therefore he call'd the taylor loune.
He was a wight of high renowne,
And those but of a low degree;
Itt's pride that putts the countrye doune,
Then take thine old cloake about thee.
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!
It was a' for our rightfu' King
We left fair Scotland's strand.
In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.
God bless the King,—I mean the faith's defender!
God bless—no harm in blessing—the Pretender!
But who pretender is, or who is king,—
God bless us all!—that's quite another thing.
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
