discrown
Example Sentences
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Consider this, Maria, Nor wantonly discrown that sacred head Of your young love to wreathe some curled boy's brow.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
Let her be true to her own glorious nature, and this attempt to unsex and discrown her will meet with the swift and terrible condemnation it deserves.
From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton
Perhaps you think that a small sovereign people, fresh from two triumphant wars, ought to discrown itself before sunrise; because the nephew of a neighbouring Emperor has been shot by his own subjects.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
