I was unable to get a change of horses for my coach after leaving Gera, until I reached Perleburg, where I stopped at the Sword & Scepter Inn.
May it please your honor, my name is Franz Bauer, and I am a servant at the Sword & Scepter Inn, kept by Christian Hauck.
On this day, I and Fritz Herzer were sent into Perleburg with a load of potatoes and cabbages which the innkeeper at the Sword & Scepter had bought from the estate superintendent.
The boy rose to a splendor and a noon-day prosperity, both personal and public, that rang through the records of his people, and became a byword amongst his posterity for a thousand years, until the scepter was departing from Judah.
We see this ecclesiastical power wielding a kingly scepter among the kingdoms of divided Rome, exalting itself above them, with a look "more stout than his fellows.
And meekly stepping to the throne of Cæsar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages.
He was clad in superbly embroidered robes, wore a diamond crown or tiara, held a scepter of pure gold, and was surrounded by his officers, who were almost as richly dressed as he.
As Polynices was dead, and could not claim the scepter he had so longed to possess, they put his son Ther-san´der upon the throne.
I likewise saw one in Saragosa, who, imagining himself to be the lawfull King of Aragon, went no where without a scepter in his hand; and another in the kingdome of Granada, who beleeved he was the valiant Cid that conquered the Mores.
After all the ceremonies were finished, the king returned toward the palace, hauing one crowne on his head, and another borne before him; and one scepter in his hand, and the second borne before him.
The duke of Summerset not onelie made answer to the dukes obiections, but also accused him of high treason, affirming, that he with his fautors and complices had consulted togither, how to come by the scepter and regall crowne of this realme.
Illustration] Thereupon the child led John Dough to the King's attiring-room, and hunted in the closets until a fine ermine robe and a crown and scepter were discovered.
The crown was a little tarnished from lack of use, but the jewels in it still sparkled brightly; so the bear set it upon John's gingerbread head and put the scepter in his right hand.
Now it was conceded among Olympians that the social scepter was wielded by Mrs. Gwinne Tuttle, aunt of Tuttle Jones, only because Mrs. Jinnie Cumming grown old chose to pass it on.
When Mrs. Gwinne Tuttle in turn should pass the social scepter to the next in line, there was very little doubt as to who hoped to be qualified to receive it.
Emerson was the clarion voice of Harvard; Whitman was the voice of the great movement that so soon was to take away the scepter from Harvard and transfer it upon the strong new learning of the West.
New England in a single generation lost its scepter of power in the North, and thatscepter gradually has been moving toward the new West.
Her empire is in the heart, and her scepterone of spiritual dominion.
A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.
And by myScepter and the Scortish Crowne, I am resolu'd to grant thee thy request.
He whose sword has freed a nation Strikes the offered scepter down.
As mother, wife, and friend she wields a triune scepter of vast power.
It is cultivated woman that wields the scepter of authority among men.
It holds itsscepter over our business, our amusements, our philosophy, and religion.
Reason can never wield her grandest scepter of power on a shattered and trembling throne.
Gotoba, after he had abdicated the scepter and become ex-emperor, freely indulged his keen love for sword-blades.
With his fall, the emperor, who had ascended the throne by the influence of Oshikazu, was exiled by the dowager, who resumed the scepter in 764.
He had obtained the scepter under questionable circumstances, but as a ruler he showed high qualities, carrying on the administration with zeal and ability.
On the decease of the Emperor Kotoku, after a reign of ten years, the previous empress, Kokyoku, reassumed the scepter under the name of Saimei.
This was the first instance of the scepter being held by a female.
Subsequently, however, not a few instances occurred of the scepter falling into the hands of an uncle or niece of a deceased emperor, and on these occasions more or less disquiet accompanied the event.
Thus feud succeeded feud, and campaign, campaign, arising out of the universal creed that a prize scarcely inferior to the scepter itself lay within reach of any noble whose territorial influence and military puissance enabled him to grasp it.
Nor had there been another instance of the scepter coming into the hands of such a young ruler.
Man, as it were, takes the sword out of nature’s hand and with it for hisscepter of authority dominates nature itself.
Second, one of the signs or Messianic conditions is that His scepter would be an iron rod, and this Christ has not even a wooden staff.
They also said that the scepter of Christ would be of iron—that is to say, He should wield a sword.
Doesn't Your Majesty know that when my father and lord, William, Count of Warwick, held the royal scepter he conquered the Moors?
Instead, let the Duke of Lancaster, who is the uncle of my lord king, undertake this battle, and let our king grant to him the scepter and the royal crown so that the Moorish king will not be deceived and so that he may combat a true king.
And so, in the presence of all these worthy lords, I return to you the kingdom, the crown, the scepter and the royal robes.
Coming down from his imperial seat and lamenting over Tirant's death, he said: "Today is the day when our scepter is lost, and I see the crown taken from my head and dashed to the ground.
He has won renown by his own virtue, and if I had the royal scepter and were lord of the Greek empire, and if Carmesina had come from my body, I know very well whose wife I would make her.
It is a comfort to know that the scepter of Jehovah, as King of the universe, is a scepter of righteousness.
A scepter is a kind of staff borne by kings as an emblem of their authority.
They with the rock's reverberant roar Chafe blustering round their prison door He, throned on high, the scepter sways, Controls their moods, their wrath allays.
He is generally represented as a fine majestic figure, with long curling hair and beard, clad in flowing drapery, his redoubtable thunderbolts or scepter in one hand, and a statue of Victory in the other.
Angry beyond all expression, Gaea swore revenge, and descended into Tartarus, where she urged the Titans to conspire against their father, and attempt to wrest the scepter from his grasp.
Erato, who preferred lyric poetry to all other styles of composition, was pictured with a lyre; and Polyhymnia, Muse of rhetoric, held a scepter to show that eloquence rules with resistless sway.
From thee there shall proceed a royal race, That shall maintain the honor of this land, And sway the regal scepter with their hands.
And she waved her ebony scepter in dismissal, ringing the bell at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scepter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
