Bethroned

[…] The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Bethroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; […]

At intervals there was a great platform car, bethroned and grandly canopied, upholstered in silks, carpeted with oriental rugs, and freighted with girls clothed in gala costumes.

And yet, Skinned One, so they say, can frighten the Tlatoani himself, even as His Majesty sits bethroned in the capital—and this with only an angled glance from those opaque eyes.

Dominating the hall from high on the west wall is a round, oak table-top 18ft in diameter, depicting a splendidly robed and bethroned King Arthur, with the names of his knights around the circumference.

What is disturbing (and distorting) is that these writers should be assembled like so many courtiers or footmen round the bethroned, centre-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell.