For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. From Wordnik.com. [Childe Harold's Pilgrimage] Reference
That crafty plague, with those twin-sceptred kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
And startles on his throne their sceptred foe: 1635. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
And His infinite sceptred hands that sway us can bring. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
A conqueror and a sceptred king -- upon thy native land. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Funny you should say that about the "sceptred isle," Frank P. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Huzzah for the sceptred isle! posted by Carolingian @ 10:52 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
And yet he sits a sceptred king -- in his own dear native isle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Stood up in bonds before the slaves of sceptred fraud and fear!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Her prayer was ended, and again, like crowned and sceptred Queen. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Their voice is heard above Herodias 'strains of revelry and even sceptred. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
And it may also turn out to be a bonanza for the lawyers of this sceptred isle. From Wordnik.com. [Copyright in characters] Reference
He is one of those "dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule our spirits from their urns.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The crown was on her head, by her side her sceptred lord; and below the people cheered and howled. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain, its sceptred isle left barren in the salt-breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai] Reference
Should this happen, the prospect of mass protests in these sceptred isles is by no means far-fetched. From Wordnik.com. [Putting out the flames] Reference
Throne, and demanding redress for this conspiracy, from the orbed and sceptred hands of Majesty itself!. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to All the Year Round] Reference
Fiends robed and sceptred, once reigned over fiends clothed in skins and armed with broadsword and battle axe. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Grand master of British film Mike Leigh returns with another highly improvised effort charting life on this sceptred isle. From Wordnik.com. [HAPPY-GO-LUCKY | Obsessed With Film] Reference
For those of you who live beyond the shores of this sceptred isle and are shaking your heads at me for an insular Brit 'Fog in Channel. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash and Piffle: TV review] Reference
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". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
And be a sceptred slave, at his stern beck to start. From Wordnik.com. [Some Poems] Reference
The dead, but sceptred, Sovereigns, who still rule 40. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
Nor raised his head, nor stretch'd his sceptred hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Troy] Reference
Destruction's sceptred slaves, and Folly's mitred brood!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2] Reference
And first in sceptred state, but filled with anxious fears. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Caligula was both, sceptred at that; and with what a sceptre!. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Purple] Reference
Heart, the future father of the sceptred line of Judah, and of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children] Reference
Once more he held sceptred sway over races long since in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
"The Act regarding them was yestermorn sceptred by the King's Grace.". From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Margery] Reference
Laura Fountain stood on a pedestal robed and sceptred like a little queen. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I] Reference
Men will not kneel to sceptred slaves, nor freemen fight for tyrants 'tools. From Wordnik.com. [The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History] Reference
I have wealth and possessions and respect as great as if I were a sceptred King. From Wordnik.com. [Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts] Reference
Sovereigns, dead but sceptred, 554. name ourselves its, 554. soldier among, 495. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
This sceptred misanthrope possessed it, and it was in that his wife was blessed. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Purple] Reference
Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain; this sceptred isle barren in the salt-breeze. From Wordnik.com. [How Now Brownpau] Reference
Assisi, solemn sceptred kingly forms, all alike in action and attitude, appeared to me magnificent. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
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