imperial
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Dove is the bound-foot daughter of an imperial scholar who came to the city to become one of the locked-away wives of a decades-older merchant.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Yet, at the end of the day, such imperial highhandedness backfired on Athens: It lost the broader war for domination of Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Of course, in the atomic age, wars between imperial great powers, as in World War I and World War II, are no longer truly conceivable.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Standing stiff and unsmiling next to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump appeared unmoved by the former imperial temple in Beijing where emperors once prayed for good harvests.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
She waves away her imperial attendant, and walks me into the long hall.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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