With orient titles and immortal fame The hero band adorn their monarch's name; Sceptres and crowns beneath his feet they lay, And the wide East is doom'd to Lusian sway.
With a breath He overturns thesceptres of kings--with a breath He hurls our crowns to earth, until, cowering at His feet, we acknowledge our unworthiness.
What are crowns and sceptres and splendor, when the heart is without love and hope?
And within are those who carry crowns on their heads andsceptres in their hands.
Nae doubt their claiths will be very grand, wi' their crowns on their heads, and their sceptres in their hands, like the great King Ahasuerus when he sate upon his royal throne fornent the gate of his house, as we are told in Scripture.
In the British Museum are several Egyptian statues with sceptres of the Lotus; and a mummy with crossed arms, holding in each hand a Lotus-flower.
In Scandinavian mythology the Hazel was consecrated to the god Thor, and in the poetic Edda a staff of Hazel is mentioned as a symbol of authority, and hence employed for the sceptres of kings.
The Iris was one of the flowers dedicated to Juno, and with the ancients was wont to be employed as the symbol of eloquence or power; hence the Egyptians placed this flower on the brow of the Sphinx, and on the sceptres of their monarchs.
And she hath strong rods to makesceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
And in Taphnis the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into captivity.
And he will repay vengeance to the Gentiles, till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptres of the unjust, 35:24.
Assembled states, and lords of earth obey, The laws and sceptres to thy hand are given, And millions own the care of thee and Heaven.
Talleyrand is rejoicing, and a large box of crowns and sceptres is labelled, ‘To the right owners.
The crowns and sceptres of your theatrical emperors," answered Sancho, "are never pure gold, but tinsel or copper.
A castle it is," replied Don Quixote, "and one of the best in the whole province; and at this moment contains within its walls persons who have had crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands.
I have found among my fellow subalterns two or three quondam managers, who, like myself, have wielded the sceptres of country theatres; and we have many a sly joke together at the expense of the manager and the public.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands; But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass Which shows me many more; and some I see That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry.
The steps before Sant' Antonio's shrine are half buried under the great white lilies that bear his name, and the tall dark angels that keep guard about his tomb bear sceptres of fresh lilies.
Those usually ascribed to the first William are those with the sceptres only; the others are attributed to William II.
Other Halfpence, Farthings and Half-farthings have on obverse two sceptresin saltire, behind, a crown, or C.
One tin Halfpenny has the king on horseback with drawn sword, on the obverse, and on the reverse the harp surmounted by a crown with lion crest, and two sceptres in saltire; in this two or more plugs of brass are inserted.
The Scottish crest is an imperial crown, surmounted by a lion sejant guardant, displaying two sceptres or.
Sceptres of the present time are splendidly decorated with jewellery.
First, Arrows, and their successors, Straws, Sceptresor Rods.
So he relinquishes trying to figure out things, and sceptres and candles appear to him about equivalent; and he is inclined to give up philosophical experiments, and to let things pass unplumbed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sceptres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
