discrown

Example Sentences

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“Know you not ’tis rank treason to discrown our sacred Majesty, far more to dishevel or destroy our locks? 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Canst thou love one Who did discrown thine husband, unqueen thee?

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

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 Macleod, Fiona

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 Fulton, Justin D.

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)