ex-emperor

Then there was the emperor himself, George Bush, or at least the soon to be ex-emperor.

Brian Oxman: You Can Fool all of the People all of the Time 2008

Which is why in May 1814 Locker had found himself on the Italian island of Elba showing paperwork for the upcoming peace treaty to uninterested ex-emperor Napoleon.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Which is why in May 1814 Locker had found himself on the Italian island of Elba showing paperwork for the upcoming peace treaty to uninterested ex-emperor Napoleon.

American Connections James Burke 2007

It is true the doctor is an officer of the Legion of honor, and was formerly surgeon to the ex-emperor; but, nevertheless, he would get the worst of it.

Ursula 2006

Immediately over the little square stood the palace of the Hradschin, the wide-spreading residence of the old kings of Bohemia, now the habitation of an ex-emperor of the House of Hapsburg, who must surely find the thousand chambers of the royal mansion all too wide

Nina Balatka 2004

The hapless ex-emperor, who had hoped to balance power between the various warring factions, was the last real inheritor of Caesar's authority.

The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

The fine, tall, old corporal, who came out from England with the ex-emperor, was full of his praises: "I saw the General often," said the old fellow; "he had an eye in his head like an eagle!"

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 Various

'One of them did not affect to conceal his attachment to the ex-emperor; but the other, although he agreed with his companion in wishing, for a renewal of the war, did not seem at all pleased with Buouaparte for having said the French nation _wanted character_.

A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard

Eugenie and her young son, and then, later, after Napoleon Ill's release from German captivity, to the ex-emperor himself.

The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

Upon reflection, the ex-emperor and the social democrat chose perpetual banishment from religious services in preference to perpetual labor as galley-slaves "with perpetual religious services," as they phrased it; wherefore the people believed that the poor fellows 'troubles had unseated their reason, and so they judged it best to confine them for the present.

The Great Revolution in Pitcairn 1899