throne
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"I appeal to those fighting over the throne: please, there will be time for all of that," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Harald, who was seen as a popular, modernising figure, was on the Norwegian throne for 35 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The 13-year-old, who is second in line for the British throne, was dropped off at the all-boys boarding school by his parents, the Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Harry reportedly remains estranged from Prince William, his brother and heir to the throne, and William's wife Catherine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
They were off across London to St. Paul’s Cathedral to give thanks for the Queen’s sixty years upon the greatest throne in human history.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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The ceremony then culminated with Mullally being seated in two different thrones.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
The objects, which include richly embroidered vestments and lavishly sculpted monstrances, Eucharist thrones and sanctuary lamps made of jewel-studded precious metals, are eye-catchingly high Baroque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Two thrones also used for props are up for sale.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Foo Fighters fired its new drummer Josh Freese this year, just two years into his tenure behind one of the most coveted thrones in rock following the death of Taylor Hawkins in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
And, at the far end of the shed, Billy saw pink arches with azure draperies hanging between them, and an enormous clock, and two golden thrones, and a bucket and a mop.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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A hoarder of women, art, antiquities — and most of all, money — Getty also might have taken issue with Portia’s claim that mercy “becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2017
So Blatter is seeking to be throned for another four years as Fifa big cheese at the elections to be held in June.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2011
The spectacle of John L. Lewis on Organized Labor's pinnacle, throned on Coal and crowned with Steel, is not fantastic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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Now little Ronald Campbell was the same who had picked up Earl Kenric's gauntlet on the day of his throning on the Great Plain.
From The Thirsty Sword by Robert Leighton
Those preparations check with speed, Nor let my throning rites proceed.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
According to the ethics of the day, he was a model citizen, whereas Antony throning as Osiris with a female Mithridates for consort, was as oblivious of Roman dignity as of conjugal faith.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
These kings sought to crown that semi-barbarous occupation of North Italy during two centuries by throning themselves in Rome, and making the Pope their vassal.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
How heartily she rained them on the Tuileries and the majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject and trembling people.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
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