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Example sentences for "coronets"

Lexicographically close words:
corone; coroner; coroners; coronet; coroneted; coronoid; corp; corpes; corpo; corpora
  1. Similar instructions were forwarded to Peeresses, who were informed that their coronets were to be identical in all respects with those worn by their husbands.

  2. The Pirates of Penzance promise to return forthwith to their legislative duties in the House of Lords and, in doing so, they are to share their coronets with the beautiful daughters of old General Stanley.

  3. Phyllis arrives, and after being proposed to by Lord Tolloller and Lord Mount-Ararat, the whole of the peers invite her acceptance of their coronets and hearts.

  4. Quick as the coronets worked, it was no time at all until the nearest persons with weapons were located, commandeered and in action.

  5. The power locked in the coronets of the exec was more than flesh and blood could stand; he could almost sense the rot in those near him at the mere thought.

  6. As, however, in early unnamed ex-libris the coronets have a certain small value in assisting in their identification, a brief description of the distinctive features of the principal coronets may be useful to collectors.

  7. Modern coronets are of silver-gilt, without jewels, set upon caps of crimson velvet turned up with ermine, with a gold tassel at the top.

  8. Among accessories of the shield may now be counted the coronets of peers, whose present form is post-medieval.

  9. On the continent the modern use of coronets is not ordered in the precise English fashion, men of gentle birth displaying coronets which afford but slight indication of the bearer's rank.

  10. Coronets or crowns and "hats of estate" often take the place of the wreath as a base for the crest, and there are other curious variants.

  11. Thus these three gentlemen all rode in gold coaches; had all got coronets on their heads; as you will, my respected young friend, if you are the eldest son of a peer who dies before you.

  12. Kind hearts are more than coronets And simple faith than Norman blood.

  13. They wear gay coronets of plumes, particularly those of the swan; but the feathers of the black eagle are considered the most worthy, being a sacred bird among the Indian warriors.

  14. Now half-a-dozen more little pauper princelings and decadent dukelings are trying to trade their worthless coronets for American cash.

  15. These Young Ladies were very richly drest, with loose garments of Silk, and small Coronets on their Heads.

  16. There were about half-a-dozen tall dressing glasses in the place, and about half-a-hundred young ladies were trying to smooth braids and ringlets and adjust wreaths and coronets by their aid.

  17. The crowns or coronets for these little princesses and several other of their possessions appear in a list made by order of their father.

  18. An immense number of crowns and coronets seem to have belonged to the King, Queen, and Princesses, and jewelled girdles, clasps, and rings are also enumerated among their possessions.

  19. Bright, as in her festival beauty she had led him through the castle halls, she now guided him through gardens of sweet flowers, stopping here and there to pluck them, and wind them into coronets for his brow.

  20. The Catholics would have had a majority in the House of Lords, even if that majority had been made, as Sunderland threatened, by bestowing coronets on a whole troop of the Guards.

  21. The Great Commoner, the name by which he was often designated, might look down with scorn on coronets and garters.

  22. Mention should also be made of the garlands (coronae) of flowers, or of flowers and foliage, and of the coronets of pearls and other precious stones that were used to supplement the natural or artificial beauty of the hair.

  23. So, in those days as in these, your Trimalchio was ennobled; though, to do King James justice, he had a string of coronets for his Giton also.

  24. And little coronets of flowers, to match their hair?

  25. We can't have the root of democracy in our souls if the tree flowers into coronets and gee-gaws.

  26. First in line came the dignitaries of the Church, who knelt and kissed her hand, then the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, who, taking off their coronets and touching them to the crown (a pretty ceremony that!

  27. The moment this was over all the peers and peeresses, who had held their coronets in their hands during the ceremonies, placed them on their heads, and shouted, "God save the Queen!

  28. Strawberry-leaves and the Flower-de-luce are used in the coronets of the younger members of the royal family.

  29. A representation of the leaf of the Strawberry is set in the gold coronets worn by certain of the English nobility: a duke's coronet has eight leaves, an earl's eight, and that of a marquis four.

  30. Every resource of the art was lavished on it, pinnacles and niches, lead statues, tracery, great circular coronets of pierced cast work.

  31. Later, cast ornaments became general; on the Hotel Dieu at Beaune is a wonderful series of these finials made up of portions partly repousse partly cast, these have coronets of delicate open work which were cast in strips and bent round.

  32. These were the carriages of a marquis and six earls; the other coronets belonged to barons.

  33. Coronets will change their forms sometimes; and we do not bind our brows always with the same cap.

  34. The coronets of these noblemen were carried by pages.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coronets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.