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Sentences ending with crown

That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
And the monograms with a crown! [2]
Maurice of Saxony, too, was on the point of withdrawing from the Smalkalds and becoming his ally; so, with the assistance of Heaven, he might hope to win the victory for the cause of the Church, and with it also that of the crown. [10]
It is important to bear in mind that the statesmen of our Revolution were inaugurating a political and not a social revolution, and that the gravamen of their protest was against the authority of a distant crown. [4]
Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown. [10]
Shall we reward the man who has deprived the world of Pentaur by giving him a crown? [10]
So be ye sure of this that ye shall have your heart-most wishes, and there shall be one to come after me who will wear this crown even as I have worn, in direct descent, my father's crown. [11]
My army is strong and valiant, and eager to finish its work--march with me to Rheims and receive your crown. [5]
You are right, smutty-face; I am Monsieur Talleyrand, Minister of the Crown. [11]
We are like Saul, the Hebrew, who hid himself when they came to him with the crown! [10]

Sentences containing crown two or more times

It should have worn a crown of thorns, but it flaunted a crown of roses. [11]
He kept wondering over it, and said to himself: "A king's crown must be worth $20,000, so half a crown would cost $10,000. [5]
I'm a servant of the Crown, and the Crown has ordained it. [11]
The crown, which I have wrested from you is the crown of which Amasis deprived my wife, my never-to-be-forgotten Nitetis. [10]

More example sentences with the word crown in them

Do you think you could live with such a man twenty-four hours, even if he had his crown on? [4]
The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
Had not the wings which, as Nike, belonged to her been lacking, every one would have been convinced that she was flying--that she had just descended from the heights of Olympus to crown the kneeling victor. [10]
The martyr's crown will open the gates of Heaven to him--who was your father, too, Demetrius. [10]
The magnificent train went out of the great court of the palace, and then--as she heard the chanting of priests--she realized that she had lost her crown, and knew whither her faithless brother was proceeding. [10]
Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
Through the greenhouses we marched, monarchs of all we surveyed, old Porphery, the gardener, presenting Mistress Dolly with a crown of orange blossoms, for which she thanked him with a pretty courtesy her governess had taught her. [9]
Remembering where I was, I expressed myself in terms that were gentle though austere regarding the King, and reproved the supineness and stupidity of the Crown Prince. [11]
They have, also--which was far more interesting to me--a piece of the true cross, and some nails, and a part of the crown of thorns. [5]
The crown attorney was a man of the serenest method and of cold, unforensic logic. [11]
Here is the vulture crown of Isis, and here the other. [10]
Thou and thy vagabonds shall crown the wedding with thy merry-makings. [5]
We were bound up the Niederwald, the mountain opposite Bingen, whose noble crown of forest attracted us. [4]
I would sooner twenty times have a profligate like my Lord Sandwich for a parent than a milk and water sop like Manners, who will risk nothing over a crown piece at play or a guinea at Newmarket. [9]
I hope and trust her real crown sits easier. [4]
But a foule trouble there was to make him kneel to receive his Crown; he not knowing the majesty nor wearing of a Crown, nor bending of the knee, endured so many persuasions, examples and instructions as tyred them all. [4]
He had learned, too, from Fraulein Eva that the Redeemer Himself promised the crown of eternal life to those who remain faithful unto death. [10]
When you go to war I shall set the tiara on your head, gird on the sword, and place the lance in your hand; and when you return a conqueror, I shall be the first to crown you with the wreath of victory. [10]
I've been coming to the Harp and Crown for many years, and I've never had a bad drink all that time. [11]
They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
Captain Newport decided to take one hundred and twenty men, fearing to go with a less number and journey to Werowocomoco to crown Powhatan. [4]
He then went to rest, as usual intoxicated, and fell into a disturbed sleep, in which he dreamed that Bartja was seated on the throne of Persia, and that the crown of his head touched the heavens. [10]
No; only two: to raise the siege of Orleans, and crown the King at Rheims. [5]
The King seemed to hesitate--in fact, did hesitate; for he put out his hand and then stopped with it there in the air over the crown, the fingers in the attitude of taking hold of it. [5]
Though they proposed to cure those oppressions and remove them, still remaining under the Crown, they were not intending a revolution. [5]
You were born to be a king, and yet are not a king; you will not be quite yourself till the crown and sceptre are your own. [10]
So they but thrive, they care not if the crown go to destruction and the King with it. [5]
The crown of thorns was made of real thorns, and was nailed to the sacred head. [5]
Mr. Marmaduke swore they would never have done, and squirmed and grinned like Punch when he thought of the fee, for he had hoped to get off with a crown, I warrant you. [9]
First Orion's mother, then Paula, and now this to crown all! [10]
And yet, when the untitled myriads of his own country put out their hands in welcome to him and greet him, "Well done," through the Congress of the United States, that is the crown that is worth all the rest to him. [5]
This broadening of the suffrage places the power irrevocably in the hands of the people, against whose judgment neither crown nor ministry can venture on any important step. [4]
All around us the silent forest threw its encircling arms, spreading up the slopes, higher and higher, to crown the crests with the little pines and hemlocks and balsam fir. [9]
He also noted the position of a pile of horse blankets, midway of the route, with the intent to levy upon them for the service of the crown of England for one night. [5]
About the time the maidens had finished, the Crown Prince's cigarette was ready. [11]
While they keep the King idle and in bondage to his sports and follies, they are great and their importance grows; whereas if ever he assert himself and rise and strike for crown and country like a man, their reign is done. [5]
It had been the home of Count Gunther von Schwarzburg, who paid with his life for the honour of wearing the German imperial crown a few short months. [10]
The crown of the head, however, offers a curious exception, for at all times it must have been one of the most exposed parts, yet it is thickly clothed with hair. [1]
The nimbus round the head was a crown of lamps, and large lanterns shone both at the bows and stern of the vessel. [10]
The morning and the evening sun shoot across it, and the front windows look on the great green crown of Mount Peak. [4]
He was at the end of his career, and he had meant this victory to be the crown of his long services to Slavonia and the world. [11]
He states that the ear-tufts or neck-plumes are erected, so that they meet over the crown of the head. [1]
Do not let the dying die; hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet:-- "'Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And Peace proclaims olives of endless age. [6]
At last--at last, the door of the room was opened, and Euergetes came towards her, clad in the purple, with the crown of the two countries on his grand head, radiant with triumph and delight. [10]
Cynegius held out the crown to the victor, who bowed to receive it. [10]
Has Croesus offended the crown prince? [10]
Then there is the crown of thorns; they have part of one in Sainte Chapelle, in Paris, and part of one also in Notre Dame. [5]
Knonohikis (Superintendents) of the Crown Lands, Konohikis of the Private Lands of His Majesty Konohikis of the Private Lands of Her late Royal Highness. [5]
I understood that the Crown had pardoned his mutiny. [11]
Two claimants for the crown appeared; half our nation fought for the one, half for the other, and our hosts were thinned, first by this fearful civil war and then by the pestilence which followed in its track. [10]
You shall quarter the crown and the lilies of France for blazon, and with them your victorious sword to defend them--speak the word. [5]
This letter, too, the base robber of a crown read aloud, called it a clever bit of feminine strategy, and rubbed his hands gleefully. [10]
He was aware that she lived at variance with her husband, but how could he have suspected that she cherished the more than bold design of hurling the sovereign from his throne and seizing the Egyptian crown herself. [10]
His mood was that of a man who craves some brilliant position, though he knows that its requirements are beyond his powers--that of an ambitious soul to whom kingly honors are offered on condition that he will never remove a heavy crown from his head. [10]
Scattering the sheep that flecked the velvet turf of the uplands, they stood at length on the granite crown of the crest itself. [9]
The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns! [6]
I would rather tear the crown from the head of yonder image of the Virgin than do aught to this sweet innocence for which she could not thank me. [10]
She was a strong, tall, vital woman with a sweet irregularity of feature, with a heavy crown of chestnut hair turning slightly grey, quaintly braided, becomingly framing her face. [9]
And a northeast storm of rain, accompanied with hail, comes to crown all these virtues with that of self-sacrifice. [4]
So Smyrna really still possesses her crown of life, in a business point of view. [5]
And before a statue of one of those dead Medicis reposes a crown that blazes with diamonds and emeralds enough to buy a ship-of-the-line, almost. [5]
Wouldn't she be splendid with a gold crown on her head, and di'monds a glitterin' all over her! [6]
The old Duke soon gave everything into his hands, and sat apart and listened with proud satisfaction while his heir delivered the decrees of the crown from the seat of the premier. [5]
They would coolly skip over our age of the world, and say: "Smyrna was not faithful unto death, and so her crown of life was denied her; Ephesus repented, and lo! [5]
In 1614, Captain Sir Samuel Argal, sailing under a commission from Dale, governor of Virginia, visited the Dutch settlements on Hudson River, and demanded their submission to the English crown and Virginian dominion. [4]
On the other side of Mr. Sweet, next to the parlor organ and the quartette, is the genial little railroad president Mr. Merrill, batting the flies which assail the unprotected crown of his head, and smiling benignly on the audience. [9]
He was a short, little man, with heavy limbs and a clumsy figure, reddish hair, very thin on the crown, small eyes that were not improved in expression by white eyebrows, a red face, smooth shaven and freckled. [4]
On board the ship they were betting on the run of the ship, betting a couple of shillings, or half a crown, and they proposed that this youth from the oil regions should bet on the run of the ship. [5]
It was not Serapis but the great and unapproachable One--supreme above comprehension and sublime beyond conception, for whose majesty every name was too mean, the fount and crown of Good and Beauty, in whole all that exists ever has been and ever shall be. [10]
And I have seen him reduced to a crown for them. [9]
All these experiments seem to prove that the bite of the uraeus serpent, whose image on the Egyptian crown symbolizes the sovereign's instant power over life and death, stills the heart most swiftly and with the least suffering. [10]
The Crown Prince sat directly opposite me, lit his own cigarette, and handed the matches. [11]
Presently the consul said somewhat tartly: "Ah, you've been to the Palace--the Crown Prince has brought you over! [11]
Close beside them rose the toothed crown of the great mountain which, so soon as the day-star had sunk behind it, appeared edged with a riband of glowing rubies. [10]
She had a rose on her breast, her golden fillet looked like the crown of the Queen of Heaven, and in her robe of rich, stiff brocade she was like some great Saint. [10]
Psamtik forfeits every right to the crown the moment that a brother, son, daughter or son-in-law of Hophra appears. [10]
When she had rescued her King from his vagabondage, and set his crown upon his head, she was offered rewards and honors, but she refused them all, and would take nothing. [5]
Old William Farris read his news of a morning before he began the mending of his watches, and by evening had so well digested them that he was primed for discussion with Pryse, of the opposite persuasion, at the Rose and Crown. [9]
Rameses measured the proud and noble figure before him with a glance, and said severely: "I am prepared to treat for peace only with such of my enemies as are willing to bow to the double crown that I wear. [10]
Then the Crown Prince came forward, and beckoned me to go with him. [11]
We used to play it in this simple way, and the one who used to bring in the crown on a cushion--he was a little fellow then--is now a clergyman way up high--six or seven feet high--and growing higher all the time. [5]
She wore a plain muslin cap with a high puff in the crown, a short woolen gown, a white and blue checked apron, and shoes with heels. [4]
In the foremost place, immediately under the icons, sat Barclay de Tolly, his high forehead merging into his bald crown. [2]
Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. [5]
The slim young pine had indeed somewhat overtopped the gnarled oak, but the crown of the older tree was the broader. [10]
He flattered the people by remitting their taxes, by large gifts and larger promises, and finding his clemency gratefully recognized, determined on an imposture, by which he hoped to win the crown of Persia for his own family. [10]
Nor did he pause even when a lofty palm, uprooted by the tempest, fell to the ground so close beside him that the fan-shaped leaves in its crown brushed his face. [10]
You see why Patrick Henry, in Richmond, and Samuel Adams, in Boston, were startling the crown officials with the same accents of liberty, and why the Mecklenburg Resolutions had the very ring of the Protest of the Province of Massachusetts. [6]
One of my own classmates has undergone a singular change of late years,--his hair losing its original tint, and getting a remarkable discolored look; and another has ceased to cultivate any hair at all over the vertex or crown of the head. [6]
Not your face only, but your whole length--a good measure--from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head was like a brimming cask of satisfaction. [10]
If men could only know how much they would have to do as kings only in reading and writing, they would take care never to struggle for a crown! [10]
When one sets oneself against the Crown one must be sure of one's ground, and fear no foe, however great and high. [11]
Give me the one reward I ask, the dearest of all rewards, the highest in your gift--march with me to Rheims and receive your crown. [5]
He patted her on the shoulder and said: "Don't do it, dear; remember, there are witnesses, and it is not becoming in the Crown Princess. [5]
From the wounds of the crown of thorns; from the pierced side; from the mutilated hands and feet; from the scourged body--from every hand-breadth of his person streams of blood were flowing! [5]
From the glory of the crown of hair to the curve of the high instep of a slim foot it was altogether a personality which hinted at history--at tragedy, maybe. [11]
Upon the return of Samuel Mace, mariner, who was sent out in 1602 to search for White's lost colony, all Raleigh's interest in the Virginia colony had, by his attainder, escheated to the crown. [4]
No warm impulse of paternal tenderness stirred the breast of the man whose heart was hardened, who understood how to divest himself of the warmest love as he now cast aside the crown and the purple of royalty. [10]
If her crown of life had been an insurance policy, she would have had an opportunity to collect on it the first time she fell. [5]
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he's loathsome to me; and he keeps getting loathsomer. [8]

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