Emperors in example sentence

This canal served commerce until the century of Rome's Antonine emperors; it was then abandoned and covered with sand, subsequently reinstated by Arabia's Caliph Omar I, and finally filled in for good in 761 or 762 A.D. by Caliph Al-Mansur, in an effort to prevent supplies from reaching Mohammed ibn Abdullah, who had rebelled against him.

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The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, could have never dreamed of such luxuries.

In ancient China, that means in exile, because Chinese emperors, they put their political enemies in exile beyond mountains.

Tea was the subject of books and poetry, the favorite drink of emperors, and a medium for artists.

You know, he and his peers in Silicon Valley are the kings and the emperors of our time.

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