He saw in it a demonstration of the powers ranked against him and the Principalities he had to combat; he felt, in face of it, how weak, how poor, how insignificant he was; and at one time despaired, and at another was in a frenzy, at one time wearied Julia with prophecies of treachery, at another poured his forebodings into the more sympathetic bosom of the elder woman.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman
All these Principalities, as their earlier monuments prove, shared the same Hatti civilization as the Mushki and seem to have had the same chief deities, the axe-bearing Sandan, or Teshup, or Hadad, whose sway we have noted far west in Lydia, and also a Great Mother, the patron of peaceful increase, as he was of warlike conquest.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
It also fully guaranteed the independence of the tribunals, individual freedom, liberty of faith, of the press, of public meetings, the individuality of property, the self-government of Principalities, and the equality of all citizens before the law.
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie