How To Use Crown In A Sentence

Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province. Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune
But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? McTeague
The cathedral is the crowning glory of the city.
That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
He was anointed with oil and the crown of France was solemnly lowered onto his head. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII

The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
Eight crowns with alternating large and small fleurons are described.
Within four years he managed to dislodge the shah then in place Ahmad Shah Qajar and coronate himself, making his 5-year-old son crown prince. A Monarch Dethroned
The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
In these festivals the working people would hold skits in which they would uncrown the king.
His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
Which one do you want, the spaniel with the crown or the bug-eyed chihuahua?
Croft twiddled a silver crown piece in his hand and examined it with great interest.
The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
He was remanded in custody to crown court. The Sun
Because the loquat, or Japanese plum, is symmetrical and has a dense, evergreen crown, it is desirable in the home landscape.
The judge adjourned the crown court hearing. The Sun
Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita). Petenes mangroves
The Crown case was that the lawful activity which they had intentionally disrupted was retail selling. Times, Sunday Times
When the sentences were passed at York Crown Court in May 2001, he walked free because of the time he had spent in custody on remand.
It completed her expression; it was as a very halo of Yankee saintship crowning the woman who in despite of poverty and every discouragement had always hated, to the very roots of her hair, anything like what she called a "sozzle;" who had always been screwed up and sharp set to hard work. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
Then the crowning jewel is that OHSU gets ONE dollar of every TWO dollars lobbied from the federal government to put into their own coffers per the SoWhat Agreement. SoWhat goes underground (Jack Bog's Blog)
As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
Can't quite imagine yourself with your hair gathered loosely at the crown with tousled waves flowing down your neck… but like the idea?
He has twice been crowned road race world champion, most recently in 2002 when he snuck up the inside of the bunch to outsprint his rivals in Lisbon.
It would be a joy to hand him my crown. The Sun
Affected stands either fail to initiate spring growth or green up unevenly in March and then plants decline and eventually die due to infected crowns and roots.
He was convicted and jailed for four years and three months for evading 8,000 excise duty at Maidstone crown court. The Sun
She associated his father, the patriarch - he acting in close concert with his two accountants, neither of whom were called by the Crown.
The officers 'servants, commonly called "batmen," were unfortunate rankers who, in moments of weakness, had sold themselves into slavery for half a crown per week. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
Unwind by sitting quietly and mentally scanning your body from the crown of your head down.
They could not commit the defendant to the crown court to deal with bail.
A cockatrice is a Dragon with a Crown on his head, and hatched by a Viper on a Cock's Egg. The Viper was the Symbol of Annotations
Sir Anthony held the crown out on the tip of his lance.
Improvising hastily, the papal legate Guala is said to have crowned the new king with a chaplet of flowers.
Gregory's procedure was little less revolutionary than that of the King, but the claim to depose might appear as only a concomitant to the power already wielded by Popes in bestowing crowns, while for Gregory it had by this time become the copingstone in the fabric of those relations between Church and State which he and his party were building up. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
Their heirs would inherit the crowns of England and France in perpetuity. Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler
In the past, noble lords and rich men - when they could get a licence from the Crown - built themselves a living larder in the shape of a deer park with high fences and walls.
She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
Therefore, the wear rate of rhino teeth, in terms of crown height, may decrease exponentially with age.
The six Roman heroes stand high up in the side arches, above the entablature that crowns the actual windows in the wall.
On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head. Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
The term garland was also technically used to signify a crown of precious metal, often adorned with gems, made for the arrangement of natural or artificial flowers before the altar or sacred image at festival times. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit
The decision whether to treat an offence as summary or indictable is made by the Crown prosecutor after taking into account all the circumstances of the case.
Under the original scheme, title reverted to the Spanish Crown upon the death of the ecomendero (estate owner), but in time heirs were allowed retain rights by inheritance. Mexico's Colonial Era - Part 2
They took a quasi-religious attitude to Confucius, worshipping him as ‘the uncrowned king’ rather than respecting him simply as the greatest of teachers.
In March 1525, the king recalled Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, from his role as justiciar of North Wales and, in south Wales, the long-time crown agent, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, had died in the spring. 66 This household was to have a profound effect on Mary's political status and composition of future households. 67 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Crown gall strains caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens S-1 702, C-58 have been established from sunflower hypocotyls, tobacco stems and stem pithes, carrot roots and potato tubers.
The magistrates committed her to Preston Crown Court for sentence after ruling their powers of punishment were insufficient.
The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows. King Candaules
Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topog'raphy, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life-giving sunlight. Mid Flinx
Last week Cabinet instructed Crown Law to prepare an amendment reversing the decision in time for the current session of Parliament.
What the notes don't tell you is that the flexible sprays of bay leaves can still be shaped into a passable laurel crown. Christianity Today
With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires.
Tufts of springy white hair poked up from the center of the crown.
Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
Here, a drumlin, an oval mound smooth-sculpted by glaciers, rises to give an uninterrupted panorama of sea, fields and forests from its grassy crown.
The breakfront is nearly identical to a desk of about 1805 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that has a provenance in the Crown-insheld family of that city.
Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.
The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
It plans to write to the Crown Office to seek an assurance that a similar incident would not occur.
The centre is a joint initiative by the Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service and Department for Constitutional Affairs and will dispense justice to anti-social louts and low-level criminals.
Chelmsford crown court had heard her admit grievous bodily harm and she was sentenced to two years prison, suspended for two years. The Sun
The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies. SFGate: Top News Stories
Many canopy trees have protruding crowns, and light availability at the surface of the canopy crust should also differ depending on the position relative to the apex of the crown.
Since a criminal investigation is involved here she must be most careful to ensure that she is truthful at all times about what has happened and that she does not become embroiled in cobbling up an untrue explanation of events which might later become the subject of evidence under Oath in the Crown Court. Archive 2008-11-30
They were bailed to appear next month at crown court. The Sun
The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
Their haul included golden crowns, precious chalices, tabots, altar slabs, beautiful processional crosses, dozens of fine manuscripts and his hair.
The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
The crown was set with precious jewels-diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
Teeth form mainly from neuroectoderm and comprise a crown of insensitive enamel surrounding sensitive dentine and a root that has no enamel covering.
An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
The Under-18 team went on to be crowned champions and the club's Wharfedale League team was promoted to the Second Division.
Each tooth is divided into a crown that projects into the mouth and a root that is embedded into the jaws.
Gold crowns and dentures could then be traded for ready money when one of those whopping utility bills lands on your doormat. Times, Sunday Times
For four years there were no title fights for the welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight or heavyweight crowns.
A Reading crown court jury found him guilty of attempted murder. The Sun
At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten, A Confederate girl's diary,
When he had consumed all the litharge in Sedan he made no more gold, nor ever more saw his philosopher or his forty thousand crowns. A Philosophical Dictionary
The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
Seas shift their beds, rivers change their channels, continents grow old with the weight of years and hoary crowns bestud the islands, while ocean currents grind their rocky feet to dust and scatter their flinty ribs in the secret chambers of the deep. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
Winning the Kentucky Derby is always special, particularly in the prism of the present time, when a horse catapults from unknown to Triple Crown threat based on the win. Secretariat: real-life footage is going to be awfully hard to beat
As genetic blood disorders, hemophilia and porphyria had serious effects on the crowned heads of Europe.
Her crowning glory is her hair.
An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day. Travels through France and Italy
Both mainsprings are so long that winding them conventionally via the crown would be unfeasible.
Crown Jewels of Iran - This aigrette measures approximately 12 inches long and 4 inches wide.
He also must be crowned by you and receive your blessings, for you are the suzerain. THE FAMILY
The crown court, however, upheld the magistrate's decision.
A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus Count Robert of Paris
The police investigation has now finished and a file on the case has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
Black-crowned Night-herons are gregarious at all times of the year, and are often seen in very large groups.
The jury could not decide on a murder verdict after 17 hours of deliberation and the Crown will seek a retrial on the charge. Times, Sunday Times
‘I never want to look back on an album and think that that was the crowning moment and that everything has been downhill from there,’ adds Adrian.
Then in ruby crown and royal purple she served them all. The Princess and the Curdie
When William Herschel landed at Dover he had in his pocket a single crownpiece, and his luggage consisted of the clothes he wore, and a violin. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
Rotten crowns should also be dug out. Times, Sunday Times
The judge, sitting with two magistrates, had been told the Crown did not oppose the appeal.
The old castle and fortress of Guevara is perched on the crown of what Captain Dalgetty would call a monticle, rising very abruptly out of the most arid and dry plain it was ever my fortune to visit.
Be prepared instead for some rather more unusual ways of adorning nature such as spikes for hedges and fences, and decorative chokers and collars for branches or you could even crown the bean poles with a conical finial pot.
This film is without question the director's crowning moment.
Watermark: [posthorn in crowned shield (upper portion)]. Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Robinson (15 April 1796
Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
At any rate, as the years pass, let us on this side of the water be more and more in the one great family, looking to the time when the young Canadian will win the crown of wild olive, that emblem of sweet honour and gray rest, that which is given as a reward and as a guerdon to gallant youth who stands dowered from the night and splendid for the day as the pride and hope of mankind. The Imperial Significance of Games
The crown is an attribute of kingship.
During the whole of the this period the Crown would ban the sale of wheat and barley for beer producation during times of poor havest. Army Rumour Service
Antichrist, the summing up and concentration of all the world evil that preceded, is the eighth, but yet one of the seven (Re 17: 11). crowns -- Greek, "diadems." name of blasphemy -- So C, Coptic, and Andreas. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
What mattered was what was inscribed upon the golden rim of the inside of the crown.
City officials plan to enhance the pine canopy by thinning out thickly planted forests to give older longleaf pines more room to spread their crowns.
It was an easy labour and, within five hours, Filipa was fully dilated and the baby's head was crowning.
The parsnips are ready to harvest when the crown is the diameter of a 50 cent piece.
My hair thinned at the crown and my formerly low hairline on my forehead began to dramatically recede. The Sun
The surveys concluded that the tree's trunk was essentially hollow and there were large areas of deadwood within its crown.
The case was adjourned to crown court next month. The Sun
He sent the crown Prince to school at Le Rosey, the famous swiss establishment for the young international rich.
The tourney is at the final four stage now with Illinois, Louisville, Michigan State and North Carolina vying for the crown.
a crown is emblematic of royalty
Jerusalem might carpenter a cross for Him, but the world would weave its heartfelt devotion into a crown of love for Him, bestudded with the dewy tears of its gratitude, sparkling like diamonds in the light of His face. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel
Crowned by two onion-shaped copper domes, it is the second largest synagogue in the world. The Sun
And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar. Dragonfly in Amber
It bore a crown on a purple cushion and a wreath of white flowers with the message: ‘In Loving Memory, Lilibet’.
“Dear child, how late it is!” exclaimed Lady Knollys suddenly, looking at the Louis Quatorze clock, that crowned the mantel-piece. Uncle Silas
The charges follow a joint investigation by West Yorkshire police and the Crown Prosecution Service casework directorate.
We got the team jerseys, Dee made a really nice silver, black, and white crown for it.
After the Great Revolt of 1857-8 against the Company, the British Crown actually created its own khilat, the Star of India investiture.
The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," the Stevie Awards will announce the winners during a gala banquet on Monday, Feb. 22 at the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. PR.com Press Releases
The front was covered with decorations, including mock-ups of a throne and floral crown, window-sill models of Coronation regalia and the Royal coach, coloured lights and Royal portraits.
That performance elevated him to red-hot favouritism for the hurdling crown. The Sun
A morning newspaper should be a city's crown of glory, an intellectual Aurora ushering in the new-born day; but in Houston's case her chief newspaper is a sorrow's crown of sorrow, her inexpungeable badge of shame. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
This polished section of a tooth crown reveals figure-eight patterns of the blue mineral vivianite, a phosphate of iron.
Everything hast thou, O wonder-worthy, God-beseemingly prevented, and now art thou crowned with an unfading crown from the hands of the Almighty The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Glass has historic value, too: keep crown glass panes with wavy or circular patterns. Times, Sunday Times
He then fought and won a hard match with the tough Mr. D. to take back his crown.
Crowns and tiaras adorned the heads of nobility, earrings and nose studs enhanced the natural beauty of the face, necklaces and pendants highlighted a graceful neck, and brooches and fasteners held drapes and garments in place.
Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary.
He also undertook to give evidence for the Crown and was sentenced on that basis.
It is evident that the staple was primarily a fiscal organ of the crown, facilitating the collection of the royal customs.
The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye.
Swindon magistrates remanded him in custody and committed the case to crown court.
The new badge comprises of a crown, harp, shamrock, laurel leaf and torch and scales with the cross of St Patrick as a centrepiece.
Her vivid jade eyes matched the emeralds that decorated her crown.
The kiaat is a deciduous, spreading and slightly flat-crowned tree with a high canopy.
With his right hand, he lifted away his iron veil, his crown and mask and gorget, exposing his slender face.
The Crown alleges Rajgopaul had 45 grams of methamphetamine intended for supply, stashed in a sleepout at the property. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The divorcee thanked the local crown court jury. The Sun
Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars. DARKWATER
He wore his letter jacket as proudly as a king would his crown, and he hauled his bag over one shoulder.
The Crown cannot force them to come to the table, negotiate, and reach resolutions.
I just was surprised that even if you are to be crowned King, you still are being commanded around by your mother.
They polished him off by crowning him with a Coca-Cola bottle.
In his birthday address of 2004, Akihito seemed to suggest he was fed up with Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife criticising his eldest son for speaking in public earlier that year of the "suffocating atmosphere" in the royal household which he claimed had contributed to his wife's clinical depression. Emperor Akihito: A bulwark against a sea of troubles | Observer profile
He was last week found guilty at Ipswich crown court of false imprisonment, conspiracy to apply a corrosive liquid and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. The Sun
The existing maces have far more in common with the same item that Kings of the period are shown holding when crowned or seated in state.
Objective: To evaluate the clinical effect of the hydrocolloid impression used in PFM crown and bridge.
In Crown & Country he provides the reader with enough intellectual rigour to impart context, before livening the page with pithy tales of treachery or cruelty, of double-dealing or disaster. Crown & Country by David Starkey - review
Equally in much demand were also relief images of ancient Russian warriors, powerful outposts, as well as tsarevnas with exuberant crown kokoshniks.
In the century and a half that she has stood there, poised to award that outstretched laurel crown, many women who deserve the honours have passed by uncelebrated.
The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
A blond woman, wearing the Imperial crown and with her hair braided in pigtails like a German _backfisch_, is whirling in the tango with a skeleton partner. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
Sodium bisulphate is currently the best choice to poison crown-of-thorns with, since it eventually breaks down in seawater. Crown-of-thorn sea star
Her golden-brown shining hair waved back from a side parting with that carefully contrived artlessness which is the crowning achievement of a coiffeur, and in colour it exactly matched her soft frock, which was of the sports variety with a finely pleated skirt. Juggernaut
On the one hand, the pieces were easily distinguishable by easily recognisable symbols atop a pedestal - the King with a crown, the Queen with a coronet and the bishop by a mitre.
In particular, correlative and experimental work has suggested a role of UV reflectance of crown feathers on intersexual selection.
A strong shade of degeneracy is visible between John Vataces and his son Theodore; between the founder who sustained the weight, and the heir who enjoyed the splendor, of the Imperial crown. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Along with other members of the nonprofit, Peabody helps to protect, preserve and enhance what is often referred to as San Diego's crown jewel. AroundTheCapitol.com
I think of the fontanel, the soft spot and the crown chakra, this baby still half in the other world.
So, with all the votes in, which iconic vehicle have you crowned as your all-time favourite movie car?
I wore various dresses chosen by Amanda, and a golden crown which was sometimes on my head, sometimes in my lap, or just anywhere I chose.
If that cow kylie walk off with my crown, I have to see it.
Current Music: crown me king with slutty rodent- "chipmonk"crown me king Mordicai: crown me king!
That said, I do think John Matthias is the jewel in the crown of Stanford poetry. Quick Review 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
At the second appointment, your dentist will take off the temporary crown and cement the gold or porcelain one in place.
Troy, the Electra represents the vengeance of Orestes, the crowning event in the tale of 'Pelops' line ', the Trachiniae recounts the last crisis in the life of Heracles. The Seven Plays in English Verse
My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
But I think that those who think they can decrown this guy after 20 years of being on radio are underestimating a game that they have never played before. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
She peered out at the world from beneath a yellow straw hat - a "boater," with circular crown and flat brim - wore a green wool muffler looped around her neck, and was lost in the immensity of Khristo's sheepskin jacket while he made do with a heavy sweater. NPR Topics: News
The seven female and five male jurors will continue deliberating verdicts today in the retrial at Hull Crown Court after being sent home last night.
In colonial America loyalists to the crown were called Tories.
Like crowning jewels, these ceramic finials for deck railing, fence posts, or gateposts add sculptural details and rich color to an outdoor setting.
the royal (or crowned) heads of Europe
Autumn has a light touch here: a burgundy fringe on the roadside, gold and blush in haptic patches on the tree crowns, like the burnish on a pear. Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
He plans to defend his Olympic crown.
The city's crown court heard yesterday that he was deprived of insulin for more than 13 hours, triggering ketoacidosis. Times, Sunday Times
Under the harsh light, the long tufts of golden brown hair sprouting from the crown of his head reminded Lucy of a lion's mane.
Repeat offenders will be clobbered with unlimited crown court fines. The Sun

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