There were cabinets full of baubles and gems, and swords which must have been wielded by giant's hand.
Her disheartened knights rallied around her, and, following the impetuous girl, they wielded axe and lance for the final struggle.
Moreover, they regarded the German imperial government as an autocratic power wielded in the interest of an ambitious military party.
Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.
He alone knew the amount of the large fortune of his sometime client, and his fervor was inevitably increased by the cupidity of greed, and by the consciousness that he wielded an enormous power, the power of life and death in the district.