191 adjectives to describe crown

He sent to Louis the Germanic his pardon, and to Lothair the golden crown and sword, at the same time bidding him fulfil his father's wishes on behalf of Charles and Judith.

Encouraged by the absolute submission of her lover, Cleopatra fixed her eye upon the Capitol, and dreamed of winning by means of Antony that imperial crown which she had vainly sought from Cæsar.

Beneath the lowest leaves you discover a fairy realm of mosses,hypnum, dicranum, polytriclium, and many others,their precious spore-cups poised daintily on polished shafts, curiously hooded, or open, showing the richly ornate peristomas worn like royal crowns.

While he was thus employed, a very sparkling diamond fell out of his triple crown into my desk, of which, however, neither of us took any notice.

Cæsar serves as a cadet at the siege of Mitylene; he receives a civic crown for saving the life of a citizen.

Jack may have believed this himself, for he took no pains to disabuse the maidens as to the inefficacy of the rite, and bore with galliard fortitude the wear and tear of the nascent mustache, without which, to his mind, a soldier would figure very much as a monk without a shaven crown or a mandarin without a queue.

In the pediment is "the figure of a woman with a mural crown, mounted on an animal, whose four heads (angel, lion, ox, eagle,) are symbols of the four Evangelists, the whole being emblematic of the victorious church.

THE WORLD-MARCH: OF KINGS OF PRELATES AND EVANGELISTS OF SAGES OF TRADERS OF WORKERS I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST [CUTLER] The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain: His blood-red banner streams afar: Who follows in His train?

So now do I know thee far one Mellent, a notable witch, that shall this day instead of ducal crown, wear crown of flame.

" Perhaps Brown alludes to the same species of divination when he writes of: "The gentle daisy with her silver crown, Worn in the breast of many a shepherd lass.

"Dravot, he was the King, and a handsome man he looked with the gold crown on his head and all.

Fix not thy heart upon a regal crown, For this vain world is fleeting as the wind; The pain and sorrows of twice sixty years Have I endured, though happiness and joy Have also been my portion.

This passage occurs in the poem Prometheus Unbound, Act III, end of Scene 2. "Behold the Nereids under the green sea Their wavering limbs borne on the wind like stream, Their white arms lifted o'er their streaming hair, With garlands pied and starry sea-flower crowns, Hastening to grace their mighty Sister's joy.

Am now about to enter the busy scenes of life, which sinks me into the very depth of humility and fear, lest the concerns of an earthly nature should deprive me of my heavenly crown, which I have so often desired to prefer even to life itself.

All the wealth of the Indies could not shed as dazzling a light as that thorny crown.

Then one came forward who had been chosen to play the priest because he had a bald crown, and in his hand he carried a brimming pot of ale.

Only a little crown on her high-rolled hair, and her splendid chest all uncovered to the Arctic cold.

Approving gleam those eyes of tender brown; Sure on a brow that bleeds, The thorns should change to a more glorious crown.

None were admitted to his presence without announcement or without obeisance, while he himself was seated on a throne, with a golden sceptre in his hands and a jewelled crown upon his brow, clothed in robes of purple and gold.

Advancing southward the giants become more and more irrepressibly exuberant, heaving their massive crowns into the sky from every ridge and slope, and waving onward in graceful compliance with the complicated topography of the region.

Lay away the broken crown And your broken dream, With one shining tress of hair, Nevermore to need your care.

O immortal crown.

His example may even have taught the great Washington how dangerous and inconsistent it would be to accept an earthly crown, while denouncing the tyranny of kings, and how much more enduring is that fame which is cherished in a nation's heart than that which is blared by the trumpet of idolatrous soldiers indifferent to those rights which form the basis of social civilization.

The boy Rustem was mounted on an elephant, wearing a splendid crown, and wanted to join them, but his father kindly prevented him undergoing the inconvenience of alighting.

"Take," he said, "the symbol of fame, the diadem of royalty, the crown, the empire, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; renounce the archfiend and all sins, be upright and merciful, and live in such pious love that thou mayest hereafter receive the everlasting crown in company with the saints, from our Lord Jesus Christ.

191 adjectives to describe  crown