Ambrogio has painted the twenty-four councillors who formed the Government, standing beneath the thrones of Concord, Justice, and Wisdom.
This represents the great artists of the modern ages assembled in groups on either hand of a central elevation of white marble steps, on the topmost of which are three thrones filled by the architects and sculptors of the Parthenon.
If but one girl be born of you and Pharaoh, then I take back my words and give to you that title which for many years has been written falsely upon your thrones and monuments, the title of Royal Mother.
Nor, weary as he was, might he rest, for in the outer court of the old shrine thrones had been set up and seated on them he and Tua must hear petitions till sunset and give judgment, or postpone them for further consideration.
At the time that Bonaparte formed the resolution to overturn the thrones of the Continent, the sovereigns who occupied them were all of them very honorable persons.
He became a king-maker by placing his brothers upon the thrones of Naples, Holland and Westphalia.
Accustomed to receive favors from the hand of power, it was easy for them to transfer their adulatory homage from the thrones of Louis XIV.
We sell thethrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
He thrones it there With a battered bear And a tattered monkey to form his Court, And, having come to the end of day, Conceives that this is the time for play And every possible kind of sport.
Upon these texts of Scripture rest the thrones of Europe.
It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
For there are set thronesfor judgment, the thrones of David's house.
For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
He was of the old order which would keep its royalties on gilded thrones and, having isolated there in grandeur, have gone about the business of the kingdom without them.
But the day is coming when all thrones will totter.
With thrones ethereal, and their greater far; A joy high privileged from chance, time, death!
For that who thrones can offer, offer thrones; Insolvent worlds the purchase cannot pay.
No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.
The hurling of twenty kings from their thrones would have excited less hatred than this contempt for the wants of nations.
I also know that the proposition was firmly opposed on the part of Austria, who had always viewed with jealousy the occupation of three thrones of Europe by the single House of Bourbon.
How often in the days of my intimacy with Bonaparte has he not said to me, "Who knows the names of those kings who have passed from the thrones on which chance or birth seated them?
I would not exchange it for all the thronesin the world!
Peace was as necessary to enable him to conquer the throne of France as war was essential to secure it, and to enlarge its base at the expense of the other thrones of Europe.
Thrones are overturned, and are never restored; States live and die, and then are matter only for history.
The kings of England seem to have centralized around theirthrones more power than other European monarchs until the time of the Crusades, when they were checked, not so much by nobles as by Act of Parliament.
Of the awful revolution at hand: the great earthquake that was mining and quarrying in the dark chambers beneath the thrones of Europe.
Or which was it amongst continentalthrones that did not rock?
How persecution protects churches and thrones was soon made manifest.
It was under the patronage of Frederic, of Catherine, of Joseph, and of the grandees of France, that the philosophy which afterwards threatened all the thrones and aristocracies of Europe with destruction first became formidable.
The rajahs then descended from their gorgeous thrones and gathered around Draupadi as the bright gods gather around Párvati, the mountain bride of Shiva.
In thrones of gold sat Maharajah Dhritarashtra and Rajah Yudhishthira, and the other rajahs had thrones of sandalwood and gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
