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"Besceptered" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Well, the procession moved on, and, as I got under the canopy, berobed, bemitred, besceptered, and bespurred, I caught a glimpse of Miss Fellows, the herb-woman, who, with six devilish handsome girls, were strewing rosemary and tansy on the blue broadcloth from Manchester;
President [Adolphe] Thiers slipped and fell on the Paris pavement the other day. The fall of a French ruler is a rather frequent occurrence, but Thiers has not slipped much since he ascended the republican throne. In falling, moreover, he differed widely from his becrowned and besceptered predecessors: he got up again.
It taxes the imagination to associate the “Old Hickory”—that mighty pioneer of democracy who could never fight his enemies hard enough or do too much for his friends—with a becrowned and besceptered personality, with a “your majesty,” in short: but a recent writer, evidently exceptionally well informed, compels us to conclude that, temperamentally, at least, King Leopold and Andrew Jackson are “two of a kind.”
In each of the countries so deeply wronged by a royalty proclaiming divine right, there abides hope among the rulers cast out, of once more wearing the purple and holding power in besceptered hands.
The article was illustrated by an entrancing picture of a queen on her throne, becrowned, besceptered, bejeweled.
With “King Football” besceptered and enthroned as the reigning monach^([sic]) in the dynasty of fall sports, the 1933 University of Cincinnati gridiron edition has been taking form during recent scrimmages in preparation for the stiff nine-game program, which is inaugurated with Rio Grande at Nippert Stadium, next Saturday night.
Why don’t the papers point out that Willkie is challenging Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate, not President Roosevelt, besceptered in gold and invested in purple?
After our wearisome, yet zestful, mountain-climb perhaps we shall find a besceptered Truth—absolute, majestic, and immortal, reclining like a Zeus on an Olympus ruling the reality of things.
Once a pale king came as wooer and the crown of his old land, / Laden with past strength and glories, at her feet would fain have thrown, / Had she only set her slippers on the carpets of the throne, / Placing in his fist besceptered her own small and tap’ring hand.
This is the place and date that King Servius’ besceptered hands founded Mother Matuta’s holy temple.
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Shakespeare’s Lear, having first entered in Act I a berobed, besceptered, and crowned King, now stands, halfway through the play, in solitude in the midst of a relentless storm on an uncharted heath “unbonneted,” having given his crown away, and naked, having stripped himself of his “sophisticated lendings.”
On the gable between the two towers is mounted a refulgent golden relief statue of the Mother of God, the sun’s rays streaming out from her as, crowned and besceptered, she stands in triumph upon an inverted half-moon: the city’s hope and protection against the enemies held up for derision on the clock tower opposite.
Across the aisle, the Milanese Madonna and her baby wear their own crowns, and she is besceptered: no further gifts are required.
Thus conceived, Effeticus would sit “besceptered on a lofty throne” with an “Interglobal telephone” as his crown.
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