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"Satrap" Quotes from Famous Books

... dismissed a Persian satrap," expands Barclay, "who won't let his people use our binders; that country eventually will be a great field for our ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... later—a century or two, to be exact—a Persian satrap loitered in a forum of Rome. "It is here," he declared, "I am tempted to forget that man ...

— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus

... unphilosophical, he assumed that the monarch was incapable of the crimes which he charged upon the Viceroy. Thus he did not assume the character of a rebel in arms against his prince, but in his own capacity of sovereign he levied troops and waged war against a satrap whom he chose to consider false to his master's orders. In the interest of Philip, assumed to be identical with the welfare of his people, he took up arms against the tyrant who was sacrificing both. This mask of loyalty would never save his head from the block, as he well knew, but some ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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