sceptred

How To Use sceptred In A Sentence

• Writing from Dorset, I am piqued that he overlooked the wealthy owners with empty spare houses, of which this sceptred county has more than its fair share. Letters: Treading on housing footprint dreams
• Up with our banner bright, etc. Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
• Even better for Google is that this sceptred isle is probably much more profitable for it than the US operation: it doesn't have a huge headquarters with endlessly circulating electric buses though it does have two nice offices near London's Victoria station and it doesn't require server farms to work across huge distances as in the US. Google digs deep on treasure island UK
• Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
• Coward took the title of This Happy Breed from John of Gaunt's speech about the sceptred isle that's our one in Richard II. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review
• This is the second disc in another excellent series devoted to the rich seam of British Light Overtures, an area in which the composers from this sceptred isle were extremely prolific.
• Already, there were tales last week of German beef being cut up in Ireland and repackaged for the supermarket shelves of this sceptred isle.
• And yet the offence these ne'er-do-wells give is as nothing compared with the harm caused by a vicious canker that is now gnawing at the heart of this sceptred isle, this England.
• An unsceptred despot bidden take a fair woman's eyes into his breast, saw and shrank. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• Grand master of British film Mike Leigh returns with another highly improvised effort charting life on this sceptred isle. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY | Obsessed With Film