There he seemed to see familiar faces of comrades who had grown up with him from infancy; he saw his busy wife, bustling in her preparations for his evening meals; he heard the merry laugh of his boys at their play, and the chirrup of the baby at his knee; and then, with a start, all faded, and he saw again the canebrakes and cypresses and gliding plantations, and heard again the creaking and groaning of the machinery, all telling him too plainly that all that phase of life had gone by forever.
RECOMMENDED READING. The Reign of Charles V is an important new study of one of the most important rulers in world history. As the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain during the mid-1500s, Charles V ruled the first truly global empire and was the greatest of all the Habsburg Emperors.
(noun) King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461) (noun) as Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877) (noun) King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685) (noun) son of James I who was King of England and Scotland and Ireland; was deposed and executed by Oliver Cromwell (1600-1649) (noun) the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948) (noun) French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)