How To Use Sceptred In A Sentence

  • The presiding genius of the place, the unsceptred Queen of this little realm was before me -- Faed's Evangeline! Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
  • For the names I see written above me to-day on the immemorial canopy of heaven begin with that of the spotless knight, the unsceptred and uncrowned king, the godlike and immaculate "-- (here he turned suddenly, ran to the front of the stage, and, with outstretched fist shaking violently over our heads, thundered at the full power of his lungs):" GEORGE WASHINGTON! In the Arena Stories of Political Life
  • And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
  • Scott and of Burns without having directly in his mind, as inseparable from the subject and foremost in the picture, that old man of might, with his lion heart and sceptred crutch — Christopher North. Speeches: Literary and Social
  • This further rams home the fact that the writing is on the wall for Jews in what Melanie has earlier referred to as "this sceptred isle". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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  • Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain, its sceptred isle left barren in the salt-breeze. Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai
  • Funny you should say that about the "sceptred isle," Frank P. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • It was only at the foot of his own table, after ladling out and serving around the stewed oysters "hot and hot," that the commodore, rubbing his hands, and smiling until his great face was as grotesque as a nutcracker's, announced that Miss Nancy Skamp was turned out of office -- yea, discrowned, unsceptred, dethroned, and that Harry Barnwell reigned in her stead. The Missing Bride
  • What a horribly morbid story about a horribly morbid reality that is creeping into every major town and city around these once sceptred Isles. Cucumber Sandwich. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • This real England, your unreal home, turns us all into maundering John of Gaunts, sighing over sceptred isles, demi-paradises, other Edens.
  • We have it on no less an authority than the Foreign Secretary that this is the favourite dish of choice up and down these sceptred isles from whence the touring party was recruited.
  • Writing from Dorset, I am piqued that he overlooked the wealthy owners with empty spare houses, of which this sceptred county has more than its fair share. Letters: Treading on housing footprint dreams
  • Grand master of British film Mike Leigh returns with another highly improvised effort charting life on this sceptred isle. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY | Obsessed With Film
  • An unsceptred despot bidden take a fair woman's eyes into his breast, saw and shrank. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
  • Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle.
  • This is the second disc in another excellent series devoted to the rich seam of British Light Overtures, an area in which the composers from this sceptred isle were extremely prolific.
  • Coward took the title of This Happy Breed from John of Gaunt's speech about the sceptred isle that's our one in Richard II. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review
  • Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
  • Even better for Google is that this sceptred isle is probably much more profitable for it than the US operation: it doesn't have a huge headquarters with endlessly circulating electric buses though it does have two nice offices near London's Victoria station and it doesn't require server farms to work across huge distances as in the US. Google digs deep on treasure island UK
  • Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861

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