discrown
Example Sentences
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Macduff, having quarrelled with the king, joined Malcolm, and the English king, thinking favorably of their cause, sent a great army into Scotland to discrown Macbeth.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
He will then proceed to plunder and discrown the very kings that had assisted him in erecting his colossal power.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
To discrown and degrade Personality by taking away its two grand prerogatives,—this is his preliminary labor, this is his way of procuring a site for that edifice of scientific history which he proposes to build.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
It is their expiation that we make ours: they must go free of us; and when they come again and discrown us, then in love we shall be at one and equal.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
