Verb (used with object) : The award crowned his career. ,She crowned her brother with a picture book.    From Dictionary.com. 

See my crownless old hat, and my elbows and knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poem of Lepanto] Reference

Too soon the scorn of crowds for crownless Princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

Did you tell her you fell when you came to her, crownless?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference

Few men are more to be commiserated than a crownless king.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power] Reference

Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern British Poetry] Reference

And the mighty nations would have crowned me, who am crownless now and without name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference

But the proud cardinal would not allow his niece to marry a crownless and impoverished king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis XIV. Makers of History Series] Reference

Meath, left crownless, gave room to the ambition of the sons of Malachy, who, under the name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference

A crownless metaphor of empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

The crownless again shall be king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference

  Who am crownless now and without name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

From yonder lowly throne her crownless brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

Shall on thy dead and crownless forehead place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

  Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference

A triumph, crownless, and a slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

And pass not crownless to Persephone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference

And There, where many crownless kings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

Whose crownless head awaits the diadem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet] Reference

'Thou crownless king, thy days are few.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Crests reared of the crownless casques.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems] Reference

A crownless queen -- a woman of the town!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems] Reference

The crownless hat, ne'er deem'd an ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827] Reference

Or crownless and forlorn, nor less a star.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons] Reference

Oh, Night's dethroned and crownless queen!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Fear to go crownless of the flower he wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III] Reference

And in its pools thy crownless head lie low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference

Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference

While crownless majesty is dragged in chains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference

So with keen rains vexing his crownless hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III] Reference

Withdrawn to the mountains, a crownless king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faust] Reference

Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

Childless, and crownless, in her voiceless woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

'And whether crowned or crownless, when I fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo] Reference

Discrowned a Prince, cut off his crownless head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference

The crownless son of earth's last Charlemagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilgrims of the Rhine] Reference